Well, I have to say that you guys have really upped your sneakiness this year. Last year I had
54 delurkers, this year a mere 19, despite an increase of 161% in my overall visitors. This leads me to conclude that not only are all the extra readers I've picked up this year sneaky, but that their sneakiness has somehow affected my long-term readers. Although I am sad
that you just like me less than last year not to have reached the giddy heights of 2011, I keep reminding myself that:
- It is quality not quantity that matters. This was an excellent crop of delurkers.
- Most likely the majority of you gave up delurking for Lent.
Because graphs are fun, let's break down the blog visitors over the last twenty four hours:
According to Google Analytics, I had 620 unique visitors since yesterday's post. Regular
commenters who continue to indulge my
dorkiness are sneaky like a cat (i.e. just want to poop outside), the more elusive semi-sneaky raccoons are quite possibly sneaky but on this occasion magnanimous, and the brave
squirrelly souls who genuinely
delurked are sneaky but obliging. Visitors specifically to the International Day of
Delurking post or to my general blog address who did not comment (46%!) are sneaky like
almiqui, which have an inner sneakiness so profound that they successfully convinced the world they were extinct. That leaves the 44% of visitors who were to busy looking through my tutorials to partake in shenanigans, and 4% of visitors who are sketchy and came in via questionable search terms. I'm giving the side-eye to you, person who googled 'a girl pooping herself'.
According to Google Analytics, I had 620 unique visitors since yesterday's post. Regular commenters who continue to indulge my dorkiness are sneaky like a cat (i.e. just want to poop outside), the more elusive semi-sneaky raccoons are quite possibly sneaky but on this occasion magnanimous, and the brave squirrelly souls who genuinely delurked are sneaky but obliging. Visitors specifically to the International Day of Delurking post or to my general blog address who did not comment (46%!) are sneaky like almiqui, which have an inner sneakiness so profound that they successfully convinced the world they were extinct. That leaves the 44% of visitors who were to busy looking through my tutorials to partake in shenanigans, and 4% of visitors who are sketchy and came in via questionable search terms. I'm giving the side-eye to you, person who googled 'a girl pooping herself'.
Someone came to my blog searching for 'children tagine' yesterday :-/
ReplyDeleteMy favorite questionable search term - "crochet asshole hat". I got two pageviews from that one. :)
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the lurky ones with rubbish phones that they have to use for night (and by night I mean kids bedtime sort if night) surfing and phone says NO
ReplyDeleteLaughing.
ReplyDeleteMade me check my search terms, i have "fat girl in a small bikini" and "wet look girls in wet clothes" and "sara cox is thigh high boots" .... guess I am doing okay for the perves on the Bump Wear Project! Bad Fiction is all about Marines and their penises, my fault totally that one though!
Loving the search terms, a quick look at my blog reveals that people have searched for: 'spot the mistake' and 'amazing afghans'. But then to be fair, I do have some amazing afghans on my blog. Nothing as good as "crochet asshole hat" though, disappointed.
ReplyDeleteRe: delurking, I think the more followers you have, the less comments. Unless you are giving something away for free, then they all delurk. Fact.
Hehehe. Great funny post
ReplyDeleteI would have delurked but iPad been killed by small children and keeps crashing at inconvenient moments... :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't comment yesterday as I don't think I lurk, I do comment sometimes and am a follower so thught you'd know I was here.
ReplyDeleteAnd traffic, well people who found me from an undirect search were looking for 'chimney breast ideas'and 'white chocolate finger cake'?
I would have delurked yesterday also but the comments box kept disappearing! I love your blog but don't always have anything interesting to say. I would like a box to tick to say 'read the blog, loved it thank you!'
ReplyDeleteWell, not all of us have something clever to say, all the time :(
ReplyDeleteAlso, when reading blogs with a smartphone/pad/cat, leaving comments are a major bother!!!
I agree Juanita! Plus(where is the stinking comma on the kindle) reading blogs with three children at home all day hardly lets me have a complete thought to leave a comment. Most often I start to comment have to leave it and come back and reread it and it sounds stupid or unnecessary so I delete it. I do read this blog often and have commented once or twice.
ReplyDeleteI am just a slow lurker. Sometimes I read a post a little late, y'know? Anyway, I exist. My defense is that I pretty much never have anything to say, and when I do, I feel a little weird about popping out of nowhere to say it. But! Now I have been delurked. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteI'm a lurker and not often a commenter. I read on galaxy tab with google reader so theres no comment function. I have to go through browser to comment.
ReplyDeleteI love reading your blog though.
i am a slow lurker who normally posts from work, but obviously haven't been there. so hello. i have commented a few times, and you have definitely inspired me to take up sewing and document it on my own blog, so thank you!
ReplyDeletehello I am just back from France & missed de lurking - I am an intermittent commenter. As I can't sew (but LOVE the clothes & fabrics) I tend to comment on the family posts, as I am a human.
ReplyDeleteI have alternately been stunned, amused, needed to shower with bleach, and wanted to go take my kids and live in a bunker in the ground. All due to sketchy search terms. I've had some special ones that sounded sketchy but were really my readers looking for genuine posts of mine, though, so I guess we'll throw in a mix of pride and shame, too.
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