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class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://35hunter.blog/author/iamdanjames/">Dan James</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><strong>My post on 5 September 2023 was the first published in over a year. </strong></p> <p>So you’d think in that time, without regular new content, the readership, visits and page views of <em>35hunter</em> would have dropped off pretty dramatically, wouldn’t you? </p> <p>And then by writing five new posts in September, those stats would see something of a spike, or at least a healthy incline?</p> <p>These are logical assumptions to me. </p> <p><strong>However, as I write this with only a handful of hours of September remaining, the views are about the same and the visits actually less than in August, when I’d published nothing new for the 12th month running. </strong></p> <p>So what’s this about?</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/danjamesphotography/51234392241/" target="_blank" rel=" noreferrer noopener"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51234392241_f40d7b125d_b.jpg" alt="" /></a></figure></div> <p><strong>I started delving deeper into the most read posts and pages, throughout my year of absence.</strong></p> <p>My post on the wonderful <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://35hunter.blog/2019/07/08/which-helios-44-lens-to-buy-and-why-you-need-one/" target="_blank">Helios 44 lenses</a> actually increased virtually every month of the last year, and had its highest monthly views in August, over four years since it was published.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="22683" data-permalink="https://35hunter.blog/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/image-5/" data-orig-file="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-5.png" data-orig-size="1055,327" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-5" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-5.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-5.png?w=739" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="317" src="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-5.png?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-22683" srcset="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-5.png?w=1024 1024w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-5.png?w=150 150w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-5.png?w=300 300w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-5.png?w=768 768w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-5.png 1055w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure></div> <p>Another post, about the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://35hunter.blog/2019/02/09/why-a-pentax-espio-should-be-top-of-your-compact-film-camera-wishlist/" target="_blank">Pentax Espio range of 35mm film compacts</a>, also received steady views over the this period, at around 1000 per month. </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="22684" data-permalink="https://35hunter.blog/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/image-6/" data-orig-file="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-6.png" data-orig-size="1055,327" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-6" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-6.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-6.png?w=739" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="317" src="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-6.png?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-22684" srcset="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-6.png?w=1024 1024w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-6.png?w=150 150w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-6.png?w=300 300w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-6.png?w=768 768w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-6.png 1055w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure></div> <p>A third post, about <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://35hunter.blog/2016/07/26/how-i-shoot-film-simply-without-a-light-meter/" target="_blank">shooting film without a light meter</a>, also performs very consistently, averaging 300 views a month or more for over five years! </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-attachment-id="22685" data-permalink="https://35hunter.blog/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/image-7/" data-orig-file="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-7.png" data-orig-size="1055,327" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-7" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-7.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-7.png?w=739" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="317" src="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-7.png?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-22685" srcset="https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-7.png?w=1024 1024w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-7.png?w=150 150w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-7.png?w=300 300w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-7.png?w=768 768w, https://35hunter.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-7.png 1055w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure></div> <p><strong>Are these my three best posts, or my three favourite posts I’ve ever written? </strong></p> <p>Nope. </p> <p>Are they posts I specifically wrote to try to get views? </p> <p>Nope.</p> <p>They’re simply the posts that have proved most popular with readers, and have somehow taken on a life of their own, seemingly without needing a steady fresh influx of new posts to bolster them. </p> <p><strong>These statistics bring mixed feelings. </strong></p> <p>Of course I’m delighted that even without blogging for a year, <em>35hunter</em> still gained a respectable amount of views, without me lifting a finger. </p> <p>Anyone writing a blog that’s not private (ie it’s out there online) would be lying if they said they do it purely for themselves. </p> <p><strong>If you’re making your blog public, there’s a motive on some level that others will find and connect with it, and with you. </strong></p> <p>I’m also pleased that I must be finding new readers too, as those example posts above getting consistent views month after month can’t be the same readers just re-reading the same posts repeatedly.</p> <p><strong>But the more rational and analytical part of me would love to know what those posts have that get so many more views than average. </strong></p> <p>And where the new readers are coming from, and how to keep them. </p> <p>But since <em>35hunter</em> isn’t a blog for any kind of commercial ambition, and I don’t want to start to try to write for a specific audience whilst compromising the integrity of what I personally want to write, it doesn’t really matter. </p> <p>I also recall that I’ve experimented in the past with writing and publishing up to a post per day, and it didn’t significantly increase page views or visits compared with writing every 36 or 48 hours. </p> <p><strong>So what’s the main lesson in this (<a href="https://35hunter.blog/2019/08/19/blog-stats-should-we-pay-them-any-attention-at-all/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">latest</a>) burst of stats analysis? </strong></p> <p>Just to keep writing, and keep posting what I want at a frequency that suits me, and to try to respond to every comment to keep these photography conversations with you the reader alive! </p> <p><strong>How about you? 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Unpredictable Blog Stats Theory” </h2> <ol class="comment-list"> <li id="comment-68899" class="comment byuser comment-author-smitchell7 even thread-even depth-1 parent"> <article id="div-comment-68899" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-metadata"> <span class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c972f0d9794e332edf4d47f3817552e07b743c90c2a55cf4cd30fc208a32b25d?s=54&d=identicon&r=G' srcset='https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c972f0d9794e332edf4d47f3817552e07b743c90c2a55cf4cd30fc208a32b25d?s=54&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c972f0d9794e332edf4d47f3817552e07b743c90c2a55cf4cd30fc208a32b25d?s=81&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c972f0d9794e332edf4d47f3817552e07b743c90c2a55cf4cd30fc208a32b25d?s=108&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c972f0d9794e332edf4d47f3817552e07b743c90c2a55cf4cd30fc208a32b25d?s=162&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c972f0d9794e332edf4d47f3817552e07b743c90c2a55cf4cd30fc208a32b25d?s=216&d=identicon&r=G 4x' class='avatar avatar-54' height='54' width='54' loading='lazy' decoding='async' /> <b class="fn"><a href="http://viewfromtheendoftheworld.wordpress.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Steve Mitchell</a></b> </span> <a href="https://35hunter.blog/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/#comment-68899"> <time datetime="2023-10-04T03:40:51+00:00"> <span class="comment-date">October 4, 2023</span><span class="comment-time screen-reader-text">3:40 am</span> </time> </a> <span class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="https://35hunter.blog/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/?replytocom=68899#respond" data-commentid="68899" data-postid="22645" data-belowelement="div-comment-68899" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Steve Mitchell" aria-label="Reply to Steve Mitchell">Reply</a></span> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>I post every week, and generally get a few views, comments, likes etc. in the first week, with the occasional view after that. I also have a number of camera reviews – the curious thing is that medium format reviews don’t seem to get much attention, but my Contax 139Q and Contax 167MT reviews receive daily traffic, year in year out.</p> </div> </article> <ol class="children"> <li id="comment-68901" class="comment byuser comment-author-iamdanjames bypostauthor odd alt depth-2"> <article id="div-comment-68901" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-metadata"> <span class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/779eefd8d222a3bbe39d4b72f160489197652af04f2432f261d5dd2f03880f65?s=54&d=identicon&r=G' srcset='https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/779eefd8d222a3bbe39d4b72f160489197652af04f2432f261d5dd2f03880f65?s=54&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/779eefd8d222a3bbe39d4b72f160489197652af04f2432f261d5dd2f03880f65?s=81&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/779eefd8d222a3bbe39d4b72f160489197652af04f2432f261d5dd2f03880f65?s=108&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/779eefd8d222a3bbe39d4b72f160489197652af04f2432f261d5dd2f03880f65?s=162&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/779eefd8d222a3bbe39d4b72f160489197652af04f2432f261d5dd2f03880f65?s=216&d=identicon&r=G 4x' class='avatar avatar-54' height='54' width='54' loading='lazy' decoding='async' /> <b class="fn"><a href="https://35hunter.wordpress.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Dan James</a></b> </span> <a href="https://35hunter.blog/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/#comment-68901"> <time datetime="2023-10-11T17:45:38+00:00"> <span class="comment-date">October 11, 2023</span><span class="comment-time screen-reader-text">5:45 pm</span> </time> </a> <span class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="https://35hunter.blog/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/?replytocom=68901#respond" data-commentid="68901" data-postid="22645" data-belowelement="div-comment-68901" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Dan James" aria-label="Reply to Dan James">Reply</a></span> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Thanks Steve. I do think perhaps slightly more unusual cameras like your Contax pair get more traffic via Google, as there aren’t many reviews of them out there. </p> <p>I read both of yours and it reminded me what a beautiful beast the 167MT is. I no longer have mine but it was a very special camera. </p> </div> </article> </li> </ol> </li> <li id="comment-68937" class="comment byuser comment-author-stran9e even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1"> <article id="div-comment-68937" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-metadata"> <span class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/5ae22292a9a0174dd1bdd264cdd1d4319290f166fcf792e570240883d56c0a7c?s=54&d=identicon&r=G' srcset='https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/5ae22292a9a0174dd1bdd264cdd1d4319290f166fcf792e570240883d56c0a7c?s=54&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/5ae22292a9a0174dd1bdd264cdd1d4319290f166fcf792e570240883d56c0a7c?s=81&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/5ae22292a9a0174dd1bdd264cdd1d4319290f166fcf792e570240883d56c0a7c?s=108&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/5ae22292a9a0174dd1bdd264cdd1d4319290f166fcf792e570240883d56c0a7c?s=162&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/5ae22292a9a0174dd1bdd264cdd1d4319290f166fcf792e570240883d56c0a7c?s=216&d=identicon&r=G 4x' class='avatar avatar-54' height='54' width='54' loading='lazy' decoding='async' /> <b class="fn"><a href="http://www.victorbezrukov.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Victor Bezrukov, photographer</a></b> </span> <a href="https://35hunter.blog/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/#comment-68937"> <time datetime="2023-11-09T08:35:12+00:00"> <span class="comment-date">November 9, 2023</span><span class="comment-time screen-reader-text">8:35 am</span> </time> </a> <span class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="https://35hunter.blog/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/?replytocom=68937#respond" data-commentid="68937" data-postid="22645" data-belowelement="div-comment-68937" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Victor Bezrukov, photographer" aria-label="Reply to Victor Bezrukov, photographer">Reply</a></span> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Thank you for your reflections on statistics. Personally i prefer to use Google Analytics to see what is going with my wordpress site. I’m publishing spontaneously sometimes on a weekly basis, sometimes less often, depending on what i have to say and to publish. My blogs are not single images, but always series and kinda stories. Digital and film – everything is doing 😉 Recently i found myself using wordpress application more often than every other Social media app. I prefer posts similar to my – stort or long storytelling accomplished with images telling the visual story. </p> </div> </article> </li> </ol> <div id="respond" class="comment-respond"> <h3 id="reply-title" class="comment-reply-title">Leave a comment <small><a rel="nofollow" id="cancel-comment-reply-link" href="/2023/10/03/the-enigmatic-and-unpredictable-blog-stats-theory/#respond" style="display:none;">Cancel reply</a></small></h3><form action="https://35hunter.blog/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform" class="comment-form" novalidate> <div class="comment-form__verbum transparent"></div><div class="verbum-form-meta"><input type='hidden' name='comment_post_ID' value='22645' id='comment_post_ID' /> <input type='hidden' name='comment_parent' id='comment_parent' value='0' /> <input type="hidden" name="highlander_comment_nonce" 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