The party’s over.

Back on June 23rd, I noticed a spike in visitors to my blog, from 53 on June 14^th,  to 3,915 the next day.  A week later it was still going on and I noticed the bulk of the visits were from Germany.  I had no idea whether I had become an overnight sensation in Germany, or if it was some anomaly caused by a computer virus. 

Well, yesterday I looked at my stats graph and saw that it had flatlined, which means that either the computer virus was cured or I fell out of grace with Germans overnight.  I suppose I’ll never know.

At least I had my 15 minutes of fame.

And the spike goes on…

In this post I was pondering the cause of an overnight 7,000% increase in page views  on my blog.

Well, the trend is continuing, with a new daytime high of 6,095 page views on the 24^th of this month.

So I did a little bit of digging into the stats and found out that pretty much all of these new found page views are coming from Germany.  53,969 of 56,008, or 96.4% of page views in the last month.

But it’s not one single person hell-bent on messing with my statistics.  If you look at the browsers being used, the most used one, Firefox, only accounts for 38% of the month’s page views.

That means that either somebody in Germany wrote a virus that makes random computers access my blog, or I’ve become an overnight sensation there.

So;

Wenn Sie eines der vielen Deutschen, die den Zugriff auf meinem Blog sind, lassen Sie mir einen Kommentar ließ mich wissen, über Ihren Besuch hier.  Wussten Sie hierher kommen absichtlich oder versehentlich? Suchten Sie sich etwas Besonderes und mein Blog auftauchte, und wenn ja, was haben Sie gesucht? Oder hat mein Blog nur Pop-up ohne Grund?  Wussten Sie dableiben und check it out, oder haben Sie schnell zu verlassen? Bitte hinterlassen Sie mir einen Kommentar, ich bin wirklich neugierig, was los ist. Vielen Dank.

Und auch, bitte vergib keine Grammatikfehler in meinem Deutsch, ich bin mit Google Translate, das zu schreiben.

Thanks

Something’s going wacko on my blog.

• 26,847 page views in the last month.
• 3,280 yesterday alone and
• 5,132 on June 17^th, for the busiest day ever.

Before this unexplained inundation hit on June 15^th, with 3,915 page views in one day, the highest number of hits I’d had in one month was 4,802 in October of 2012.  That’s an average of 155 a day, or 3% of June 17^th‘s high.

I would love to believe that I’ve suddenly become a blog sensation, but I have a hard time believing in an overnight 7,386% increase in readership.  And it can’t even be attributed to one single post, or even a limited few.  Another Facebook Find is my most highly viewed page, and has only had 4,678 views in all time.

Personally, I think Blogger Stats has gone haywire, or some schlub in Podunk, Nowhere has spent the last week just looking at all my posts over and over to mess with my stats.  Or s/he is really, really bored.

I dunno.  If this trend keeps up I’ll start to believe I gaining a big audience.  If the trend goes back to normal I’ll be left baffled at what anomaly caused the spike of 2013.

C’est la vie.