In light of the recent massive increase in hits my blog has achieved, I decided to see which are my three top blog posts. The results were somewhat surprising. They were (according to the blog’s stats summary):

• Thursday, 16 July 2015: Le Chant L’Oignon (The Onion Song) lyrics (41.8k* or 50.6k*)

• Saturday, 20 February 2016: Simulating gunfire in naval wargames: Fred Jane and Fletcher Pratt (13.7k* or 18.4k*)

• Tuesday, 25 April 2017: Travel Battle: A review of the latest offering from Perry Miniatures (10.1k* or 20.9k*)

If the upsurge in hits was purely down to AI bots ‚visiting‘ my blog, I would expect the peaks in the above graphs to all be towards the right-hand side (i.e. the past few months) … but my second most read blog post peaked when it was written and has not experienced a recent spike.

Interesting …

As I write this blog post on Saturday evening, the number of hits are as follows:

• Today: 20,656 hits
• Yesterday: 56,694 hits
• This month: 194,457 hits … which is a daily average of 27.780 hits
• Last month: 998,902 hits … which is a daily average of 35,675 hits

This would seem to indicate that the recent upsurge in hits is beginning to tail off … a bit.

* What I do not understand is why each of the blog posts featured above seems to generate two different view totals. On the summary, each has a total that indicates the number of views it has generated … but when one looks at each post separately, that figure is higher. I have looked on Blogger for a reason for this, but I could not find anything to help me resolve this conundrum.