come back tomorrow
This is not a blog entry about Laura Ingalls Wilder or Little House on the Prairie. This is a blog entry about the statistics I receive about people visiting my blog and/or pages on my domain.

I hardly ever look at some of the stats, but from them I have learned that more people visit my site in the winter than summer (which makes sense - people spend more time at the computer when it's cold outside). For some reason, I get more visits during the middle of a month than early or late in the month. I also get more visits in the evening than in the morning or middle of the night. And I tend to get more foreign visitors from Japan than anywhere else on the globe, followed by Denmark.

Since I haven't really added anything much to the pioneergirl.com site in the past few years (I've removed more pages than I've added), it stands to reason that people visit my blog more than my other pages. And more people enter my site by going directly to my blog than by following a link to it. If you want to see the blog without the pioneergirl.com header, use this: http://www.pioneergirl.com/blog.htm .

One thing I get a kick out of looking at - statistics-wise - is the list of search strings that point people in my direction. Somebody is always looking for information about Tay Pay Pryor, Ida B. Wright, or Stella Gilbert. I get emails asking "Little House" characters all the time. I also get lots of people searching for Missouri Ruralist article titles and songs from the "Little House" books. Duh. Those are pages that are still on my site. Some search strings fascinate me, though. Who was looking for information about "Charles Ingalls murderers" yesterday, and what were they after? Were they looking for information about "Mr. Hunter" from SSL?

What amazes me most, though, is that there are people out there who go to my blog ten to twenty times every single day. Trust me. I can almost guarantee I'm not going to blog about anything so important that you have to keep checking back to see "Is it there yet?"

Seriously, dude. You need to get a life. Or at the very least, come back tomorrow. I'll even make it easier for you to stay away; I promise not to blog until close to midnight (Eastern time) tomorrow, okay?
- posted by pioneergirl at 5:04 PM