What do these numbers tell you?

A wise man said to me this weekend that he’s thinking about turning visitor tracking off on his blog. He values what he gets from blogging, but he’s not sure that stats are helping.

Hmm?

This blog has been tracking visitors since August 2007. I just took a look at the grid. May 2008 was the best month this blog ever had. I had just shy of 6000 visitors two years ago this month!

By May 2009, I’d lost focus, lost interest. I had about 1600 visitors last May.

However, I’m only halfway thru May 2010, have hardly been doing anything, and I’m already at almost 1800 visitors.

So what do these numbers teach us?

These numbers teach us how blogging makes us crazy, that’s what they teach us.

Note from 2020: The current version of this site has no tracking at all. All the past data is lost too. Good riddance.