Popularity

Just as a side note, the idea behind doing a blog was really just to share pictures. Of course, for at least the next 10 weeks, we won't have anything really interesting to post, so it's become simply a repository for amusing anecdotes and links to odd news.

If you look all the way at the bottom of the site though, we were able to install a site counter. This tracks how many people actually visit this site, where they come from, how long they stay, etc.

We're just about to break 1,000 hits, most of which are probably me and Corrie checking to see if the other posted something, or to see how many hits we get each day, but it still feels like a watershed moment.

So with that in mind, a few stats for those that care:

of the last 100 hits, 90 have been from the US, 6 from the UK, 3 from Sweden, and 1 from Japan. We've had hits from France, Portugal, the United Arab Emerits, and Germany, to name a few.

Fully 50% of you stay for less than 5 seconds per visit, while 16.7 are able to read for over an hour. Why we will never know.

55% of our hits are from first time visitors, while 20% have visited the site at least 10 times in the past.

So help us think of some kind of prize for being the 1,000 visitor to the site. We'll take all serious suggestions under consideration, as long as it doesn' t involve naming our daughter Pearl.

Update:

Wouldn't you just know it. The person that hit 1,000 just happens to want us to name our daughter Pearl. Our attorneys will review this case, but we might just be stuck.