Grand Strategy Celebrates Two Years!

Friday

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Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon is now two years old. So today I guess I congratulate myself. Given the sometimes difficult character of my writing, I have been surprised by the number of hits the site now gets. Recently I passed a quarter million visitors. While this is nothing like really busy sites that gets thousands of hits per day and millions of hits per year, it is better than I expected, and given the fact that I started with nothing, not even a mailing list of friends (I don’t have any friends, which is one reason I can devote so much time to writing), it is a lot better than where I started.

Most of the hits I get are people looking for pictures. After that, the majority of hits are people who glance at one thing, and nothing beyond this. And this accounts for the vast majority of visitors. Now, why a person would be sufficiently curious to search and find something, and then not delve beyond that is a puzzle to me. I am by nature a “delver” and so I always drill down, look for connections, and see where the argument or the link leads. I learn a lot this way, but I don’t do it because it’s good for me, but, as I said, because I am a delver and a researcher by temperament.

While I get few comments compared to other sites, even compared to blogs that get less traffic than I get, one interesting statistic that I get through StatCounter is the number of returning visitors. I recently had a day with 40 return visits, and that’s the highest number I’ve yet seen, so that tells me that there are a few people out there who read this, and you are sufficiently interested to come back and read some more. Thanks for reading, and thanks for returning! I hope you’ll keep coming back.

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