More than a million visits???
I have no idea what the number represents - I suppose visits to the thread devoted to Benedict XVI - but the thread passed the million[mark some time tonight, counting from the time it opened on May 1, 2009, and I thank all who have followed it in some way, regularly or occasionally.
I started tracking the numbers on March 8, 2011 -at which time, it was 303,948, when the thread had been running since May 1, 2009, so that came to an average of 800-some visits a day. Between that day and February 10, the last day of 'normalcy' for me on the Forum, the number was up to 867,443, which represented a daily average of about 900-1000. February 11 and the days that followed threw me in such a state of distraction that I failed to take note of the daily tally until a few days ago, and I realized that for some reason the traffic had doubled to over 2,000 a day, and with the mark passed today, the average daily visits since February 11, 2013, is about 2300.
That puzzles me because I have felt inadequate about my post- February 28 postings on B16 - which are necessarily limited by the scant news and the scarce commentary we are getting about him. And I still have to work out the best way to present the 'Looking back' items.
Not to mention that I have yet to begin posting about Pope Francis in the Church and Vatican thread, as I had planned to do. And now I am realizing I would be unable to do that after all, because of sheer lack of time. I am incapable of doing something half way, and if I started to try to post regularly about the Pope, it shouldn't be half-way. Or half-hearted.
So, for now, I will stick to keeping the Forum fires warm for Benedict XVI - not that he needs it, but that I want to, whereas Pope Francis is more than amply covered elsewhere and everywhere, and I don't think the followers of this thread doubled because visitors have come in search of Francis fare.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 15/04/2013 13:44]