15,000,000 hits!
The AI bots may still be the major contributors to the total number of hits my blog has received … but today - whilst I was attending COW2026 - my blog achieved fifteen million hits!
- Fourteen million hits: 6th June 2026
- Thirteen million hits: 16th May 2026
- Twelve million hits: 10th April 2026
- Eleven million hits: 3rd March 2026
- Ten million hits: 3rd February 2026
- Nine million hits: 16th December 2025
- Eight million hits: 4th October 2025
- Seven million hits: 26th July 2025
- Six million hits: 6th September 2024
- Five million hits: 20th January 2024
- Four million hits: 8th November 2021
- Three million hits: 6th December 2018
- Two million hits: Unsure
- One million hits: 25th December 2015
As ever, I would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to the regular blog readers who continue to read and comment on my somewhat eccentric blog posts. Long may you continue to do so!
I am giving serious thought to only writing a blog post about the number of hits my blog has received when that number reaches twenty million. Mind you, at the present rate that will be sometime in October or November!
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If you're interested in cutting down traffic by AI scrapers and such, you could look into Cloudflare services. They can offer blanket or targeted protection from AI scrapers and such. I sent you an email with the nitty-gritty on how to do it.
ReplyDeleteMr. Pavone,
DeleteThanks very much for the suggestion and I am seriously looking into it.
All the best,
Bob
Hi Bob,
ReplyDeleteFifteen million is an absolutely staggering milestone, bots or no bots! Huge congratulations on reaching it.
Cheers, Andy
Andrew Bruce (Andy),
DeleteCheers! I have no idea why the AI bots seem to love my blog … but they certainly seem to!
All the best,
Bob
Hello there Bob,
ReplyDeleteIt is insane isn’t it? I am racking up way more than usual traffic and am now on my way to 6 million which is frankly nonsense.
One has to wonder what all the data scraping is being used for!
Congratulations in any event as I am quite sure your blog has grown in stature and page viewsdue to the quality of the content!
All the best,
DC
David Crook,
DeleteIt certainly doesn’t make any sense … and frankly, I have no idea why anyone would find the information on my blog - or yours - of any use if they aren’t a wargamer.
All the best,
Bob
Congratulations! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteMark Cordone,
DeleteCheers!
All the best,
Bob
A million hits in 36 days be they an AI majority is still impressive. It tells me you should just keep doing what you have been doing and we will keep reading. Congratulations
ReplyDeleteWEK 3,
DeleteCheers! I assume that some of the hits are down to AI bots but that many are the result of genuine interest.
All the best,
Bob
Hi Bob
ReplyDeleteI don't usually check hits on my blog, but reading your comment prompted me to do so. Stats claim there were 7149 hits yesterday and 113,971 in the last month. These figures are clearly not true, I would suspect that there are a maximum of about 100 each week!
When I started my blog I did have a counter to show hits, other than my own, and it was in the region of 5 to 10 a day, which seems to me reasonable for a new blog. At that time it was encouraging to know that someone out there was reading what I wrote.
Personally I really don't mind how many read my blog, but I can understand that many bloggers would find it encouraging to check their hits. So it is a real shame that whatever is happening has completely devalued the use of the stats.
regards
Paul
Thistlebarrow,
DeleteI always add hot links to other people’s blogs and websites, and I suspect that the AI bots follow them. As a result, I might be inadvertently have directed them towards your blog. I’ve certainly found that by looking at the sources of some of the hits on my blog.
All the best,
Bob