Milestone 10,003

In my view the three biggest problems facing the human race are, in order, climate change, the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, and income and wealth inequality.  While all three could directly affect Southampton FC, only the third is likely to be an imminent problem—although it still might be wise to build any new stadium on higher ground and keep the locker room clean.

The above paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of this blog entry, but I wrote it and wanted to use it.  Instead, this blog entry is my look back at my blog after hitting 10,000 page views.

When I wrote my first milestone blog after 1000 page views, I wondered if I would be writing the next one within a couple of days. As it turned out, it has been 21 days.  The speed at which I hit both milestones was entirely dependent on a 36 hour period during which I got about 6500 pages views including 612, 5644, and 628 on August 3, 4, and 5, respectively.  The large number of hits on those days was triggered by my controversial explanation for the high number of player sales during this transfer window and the fact that my blog was linked in several blogs and forums and tweeted at least twice by Southampton fans with a combined several thousand followers.  I also received about 1000 hits directly from the Portsmouth Fansonline forum where they mocked me.

Since then I have only topped 300 pages views in a day twice.  The first occurred on the day I posted my first concussion piece, but there was undoubtedly still a lot of salary cap interest.  The second occurred when I posted my transcript of the Rickie Lambert interview.

I do not expect to write anything so generally interesting again so I probably will not get 5000 hits in a day again—unless, of course, some really famous person tweets a link to this blog.

I find it interesting where my pages views are coming from.  Not surprisingly, the vast majority of my page views come from the UK.  The top ten list

Entry	Pageviews
United Kingdom	7457
United States	892
Australia	220
France	131
Spain	110
Sweden	103
Canada	78
Malaysia	73
Germany	35
Singapore	30

I was surprised by how few people in the UK use the Internet Explorer as their web browser. If my page views had been coming primarily from the United States I suspect the vast majority of the Windows hits would have been from Explorer.  That is not what has happened:

Pageviews by Browsers

Entry Pageviews Safari 3805 (38%) Chrome 2798 (28%) Internet Explorer 1067 (10%) Firefox 963 (9%) Mobile Safari 545 (5%) Mobile 459 (4%) OS;FBSV 143 (1%) CriOS 89 (<1%) GSA 42 (<1%) Silk 23 (<1%)

 Pageviews by Operating Systems

Entry Pageviews Windows 3358 (33%) iPhone 2394 (24%) Android 1622 (16%) iPad 1552 (15%) Macintosh 831 (8%) Linux 69 (<1%) Other Unix 63 (<1%) iPod 28 (<1%) BB10 19 (<1%) iPod touch 19 (<1%)

In any case, I am glad some people are enjoying my blog and/or reading it regularly.  Hopefully, they/you will continue to do so.  I cannot predict how much blogging I will be doing in the future.  I am undoubtedly spending too much time on it and I need to get more paying work done.  But I am enjoying it so much that my computer game playing time has been greatly reduced.  At this rate I will hardly have any time to play Football Manager 2015 when it comes out in a couple of months—although I will undoubtedly use the new information in my blog.  On the other hand, I am sure I will devote hundreds of hours to Sid Meier’s Civilization®:Beyond Earth™ when it comes out in late October.