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Vital Statistics

Not being one who does subscribe to the 'blogs as popularity contest' school of thought, I don't tend to pay a great deal of attention to my traffic logs. I'm occasionally intrigued to see my referrers, and search terms are always good for a laugh, but the actual numbers don't hold much interest.

However, I thought I'd take a look at which of the newly-selectable stylesheets is proving the most popular*, and while doing so, I suddenly noticed something.

Even without today's traffic, March has proven to be the busiest this place has been (in visits), ever. There've been more than a fifth again the number of visits than the previously busiest month, which was August last year. Not to mention one hundred additional referrers (I can't get at all of those just at the moment, but I will.

So what happened? Did lots of people suddenly discover me a month ago and add me to their recommended reading lists?

*It's the default, by the way. Followed by Barber Shop, Red Nose Day, The Blues, The Greens and Negative in that order (though note that the last three have been around less time than the others).