{"id":6526,"date":"2020-07-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2020-08-12T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:18:25","slug":"some-people-must-be-watching-site-stats-60k-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/20\/some-people-must-be-watching-site-stats-60k-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Some People Must Be Watching – Site Stats 60k Views"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we approach 3 years since out kit arrived I thought it would be interesting to share some stats on this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I created the site for two reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, it was to give something back. I’d looked at many build blogs and learnt so much from them. And I wanted to be able to give something back to “the community” by hopefully helping those coming after me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, I wanted to document my build. The added nudge of the blog, every time I stepped into the garage, got me taking more photos and documenting what I was doing. I still have a chuckle whenever I read it back through again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, in part to show people that blogging a build is not a worthless exercise, and that people building after you do actually look at what you’ve written, here’s a statistics print screen from WordPress on where we’ve got to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, as of today (July 20th 2020) we’ve had 60,000 page views. Here’s a view from the WordPress Monster Insights statistics page for the past 30 days…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As we approach 3 years since out kit arrived I thought it would be interesting to share some stats on this website. I created the site for two reasons. Firstly, it was to give something back. I’d looked at many build blogs and learnt so much from them. 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