Just in case all you Devoted Readers were wondering if there were enough of you to fill a minivan, or even a small restaurant, I thought I'd give you a look at my readership stats.
Average number of unique hits per day in Feb. 2004 - 1517
Average number of total hits per day in Feb. 2004 - 5442
Total hits overall for the month - 59,867
Unique hits ranged from a low of 897 on Sunday Feb 1st (I'm amazed anyone at all reads me on Sundays) to a high of 4980 on Tuesday February 10th (Instapundit link!). There were 24,389 total hits in January, so I'm on the way to beating that total. None of you are early birds; I get relatively few hits before 9 am (though I don't know for sure if that's Eastern Time or not) and a lot of readers show up at lunchtime and 4 pm.
After the US, the most hits are coming from the Netherlands (which has a very strong testing industry and multitudes of psychometricians), the US government, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom. At some point this month, I also got hits from Singapore, Brazil, and Switzerland, among others.
Joanne Jacobs is my most common referrer (thanks, dear). People find this site by typing "pencil" and "number 2 pencil" into search engines (but also by typing "naked teacher" and "naked cheerleader" - eeew).
Unfortunately, about 1000 people this month tried to find archived files that were originally on Homestead. If you try to follow a link to a story with that URL, it isn't there, but if you enter the terms of interest into my search engine on this front page, you'll find it. They're all here, but the Homestead URL's don't work anymore.
All in all, not bad for a blog that, a little over two years ago, I figured no one other than myself and other testing wonks would ever read.