The Knitting Fiend

When I began blogging, I got in the habit of examining my account statistics to learn what brings people to the blog. In October, the blog as a whole got between 400 and 1800 visits daily visits. However, as you can see to the right; I get about 500 visits a day with occasional spikes.

To find the cause of those spikes let’s look at the individual articles people visited. My top 4 most highly visited blog articles in October were:

1. “Shrug pattern generator!” This page got 3079 individual hits. It’s my number 1 blog article; visits are steady all. Roughly 100 people a day visit this page alone, and will likely continue to do so until shrugs go out of style. They arrive by way of Google and links at other peoples sites.
2. “Spacing Button Holes: I” This page got 2866 hits this month. Roughly 2000 of these visits happened between Oct 11, and Oct. 15 when curious visitors clicked a link at the extremely popular Yarn Harlot’s blog. You can see what I’ve come to think of as the “Harlot spike” on the traffic figure above and to the right.
3. “Pumpkin Pattern” which received 2532 hits this month. This page was published late 0n the 24th of October resulting in the “Pumpkin Peak”. I was expecting pumpkins to bring in traffic, sort of like the rat page did when I first published it. But, let me tell you, in late October, pumpkins are much more popular than rats.
4. “Knitting Seminars & Big Events”; 766 people visited that page in October. I first wrote this page sometime near the beginning of October and redate it every Thursday to make it show the top of the blog.

Scanning down the list, I find people do read my individual musings; any blogger who posts musings enjoys that. Still, visitors return for tips, stitch patterns, odd knitting patterns and calculators.

I do think I’ll keep publishing those.