A moment of true confessions:  I’m an obsessive stats watcher.  I love knowing who’s coming in and out of here, and how long they’re sticking around.  And I’m a bit obsessed, in a weird audience-research sort of way, with seeing what posts draw a crowd and what posts don’t, and with speculating about why.  It’s utterly meaningless, as I (thankfully) don’t actually use that information to change what’s going on around here.  It’s just amusing, is all, and I’m not quite sure why I find it so.

But, disclaimers aside, a bit of stats watching from the last few days:

I knew that the stuff with Tribble was going to cause something of an uptick, as the academic blogging world went to code orange, but I wasn’t expecting this much of a surge.  Nor was I expecting it to linger.  But I’m still most surprised here by the short-lived Taibbi frenzy.  It’s pretty much passed today—things seem pretty normal—but it was weird last night to catch the zeitgeist at work.

[P.S.:  Green = page loads; blue = unique visitors; orange = returning visitors.  Just FYI.]

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