So, back at the end of October 2024, I celebrated reaching 10 million hits here on the Other Side.
Not too shabby of a milestone if you ask me. 10 million hits from 2007 to 2024. Pretty good for 17 years (at that point). I said then: "I hope the next 10,000,000 hits are just as good as the first or even better."
Well. They were! And I barely noticed them.
Sometime last week I hit 20 Million!
It took me 17 years to reach my first 10 million, and then about 10-11 months to reach my next 10 million.
The uptick in my hits all began around the time I stated that D&D 2024 needs a new game world. They shot up significantly then and never really came back down. According to my Google Analytics page I have a reasonably consistent reader base that basically grew by about 500% this year.
That's just crazy. I hope I am doing enough here to make your visits and reading time worthwhile.
What am I going to do for the next 10 million hits? No idea, but hopefully we will all figure it out together.
4 comments:
Congratulations!
Dang! Well done sir!
Look, I hate to bust your balloon, but most of that latter ten million is going to be nothing but bots. View counts don't mean a thing any more, even the most obscure blogs have seen increases of two-three orders of magnitude over the last few years. What benefit they gain is beyond me - scraping for AI training, maybe - but they're hitting everyone. My own primary blog hasn't had a new post since 2023 and precious few since COVID, and yet I still had over 2000 views yesterday. That would have been a good month ten years ago, and it happens at random now. Had a 5000-view day earlier this month - on a dead blog that hasn't reached a half-million total views yet. There's been zero increase in engagement, although thankfully I haven't seen a corresponding jump in spam comments that I'd have to moderate manually.
Most of your hits these days are going to be brainless machines, not living readers.
Well. It was fun while it lasted.
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