745 Pageviews

During my battle with icky nastiness (aka the stomach flu), I played on my computer a lot, specifically, I played with the features of Owl Stretching Time. One of the most interesting things I found was the status of my posts, such as the number of times a page was viewed and the what the most common traffic source was. There is also a method in which you can see where my audience comes from. Obviously, the United States came first, but would you like to take a guess on what country came in second place?

Brazil!

Holy shit! I thought my blog was mainly read by my friends on Facebook, but there are Brazilians out there eating Brazilian nuts and reading my blog. Germany came in a close third place, with Canada trailing close behind. Russia made the list of top ten nations who have viewed my blog also. Like I said, I find this amazing. There are actually people across the world, who want to read about me ranting about my crazy life.

What could be more insane than learning that people in Brazil have been reading my blog? Learning that my post Nine Sexy Women (which was never posted on Facebook) has been viewed 745 times since it was posted back in November. No other post has even come close to that number. The second most viewed post only had 51 views. Nine Sexy Women has roughly 14x the number of views than the post which came in second place (which was Facebook Statuses 2).

To put that number into perspective, there are 32 teachers at the Intermediate School. For every 1 teacher at the school who reads my blog, 23 complete strangers have read this post. Where my bewilderment comes from, is how the hell did all these people view this one post when A) it wasn't posted on Facebook and B) when you try to Google "Nine Sexy Women" my post doesn't even appear with the first 20 pages of Google searches. I would have searched further, but I was too tempted to click on Google's idea of a related search, which was "Nine Toed Woman." I'm not exactly sure, how "Nine Sexy Women" and "Nine Toed Woman" are related, but it was irresistible, kind of like Googling your own name.

(I thought you may like to know, that the Nine Sexy Women post just went up to 746 while I'm writing this entry).

Now that I've written this post, will the number of page views double? Triple? Quadruple?