# Page views, Blog stats, Hits...

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2006-06-06
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2006/06/06/page-views-blog-stats-hits/
- Categories: essay

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Page views... Blog stats... The graph going up and down... I love 'em, I hate 'em. Confused? Don't ask me to explain... Well don't... Oh ok... fine...&nbsp; <br />
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There was a time, when I used to blog about things that really mattered to me - my life. What happened in my life. What I read, what I think... etc. It was completely satisfying when I used to get about 3 hits a day. I have come 50 times that. Then I talked with <a href="http://harshchawla.wordpress.com/">Harsh</a>. He told me about monetizing blogs and I got crazy. It led me to a hit maniac. I started checking my hits every 5 minutes. I made a small program. It just checks how many times I have pressed what key - something like a key logger. I completely forgot about it...<br />
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Today, I just checked the log file that it has created. I have pressed the F5 key about 20,000 times. :o I am shocked and apalled. I have gone crazy. It roughly comes to about pressing the F5 key every 10 mins. I never imagined that my poor keyboard has suffered so much. :-(! No, it still hasn't taken over the total key logs of other keys! Even then, I have become a stat-junkie, which is crazy, considering the fact that I am not making _any_ money out of my wordpress blog.<br />
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Today, I am getting back to my normal self. I am not going to be bothered about my stats anymore. It'll go up, come down. Whatever. I don't care. :-D!! I will not stop blogging about my life. I started blogging with 2 objectives<br />
-&gt; upgrade my PHP coding skills [done]<br />
-&gt; Maintain an online journal as to what I have been doing. [still in the process] ;-)!<br />
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Anyway, now I am just making sure that I will continue this blogging as part of its original program and not about blog stats. ;-)!<br />
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But, just to point out... I will be happy the day I touch 10,000 page views. :-D!! Let the good times roll....<br />
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Btw, check out <a href="http://ontheverge.wordpress.com/">the prestidigitator</a> by PS. I like the way he writes. It's not flowery, it's powerful!! :-)! Keep it coming along dude!!