Blog feedback

Sometimes when I'm writing this blog I feel like singing the line from the musical "1776" from General George Washington's letter to Congress "Is anybody there? Does anybody care?" And about that time I see one or two comments to a blog entry and know that at least a couple of you are reading the blog.

I have another tool that helps me know that someone is there and that is the Sitemeter. This handy tool captures bits and pieces of information about people who visit my blog. When someone visits the blog, Sitemeter tracks the time entered, the total time spent looking at the blog, the number of pages viewed, and roughly where in the world they're visiting from. It then summarizes that information in a weekly report. That way I know, for example, that somewhere between 13 and 33 people log onto my blog every day with an average of 19 and they view an average of 24 pages or about 1.5 pages per login. The report also tells me what time of day people are looking at my blog. Not surprisingly, you all are reading my blog sometime between 4:00 in the afternoon and 10:00 in the evening. I also know that based on their Internet addresses my blog visitors come from all over the world although 90% are from the United States.

Last Saturday I had an interesting visitor. She or he dropped into my site at 5:30 in the afternoon and stayed until 8:00 (2 1/2 hours!) while viewing almost 80 pages. Those of you who visit regularly easily beat that in total but I can't imagine spending that much time at one sitting. And as near as I can tell, he or she didn't leave any comments.

Thank you for reading my blog and especially thanks to you who comment with additions or corrections.