Stalking: Me, Myself, and I

When you read the title you probably thought something along the lines of "What? Again with the stalking? Does she ever think about anything else?!" Well, the answer is yes, I think of other things quite often... so there.

One of the very interesting things about "Blogger" that I recently discovered is that there is a "Stats" button on the dashboard. Well, one day I was looking at that button and wondered what would happen if I pushed it (Now don't give me that look! It's not like the button was big and red and had a little sign that said "Do not push" or something!) so being the adventursome person that I am, I pushed it.  Next thing you know, the stats window pops up. This window is amazing!

Along the tops there are five buttons labeled thus: Now, Day, week, Month, All Time. Above those five buttons there are four more that are kinda like tabs in a browser. These say: Overview, Posts, Traffic Sources, and Audience.  On the side there is a little box that shows how many times your profile has been looked at today, yesterday, this month, and all time.  Each tab at the top does a different thing.  Overview shows a, well, overview of everything.  "Posts" shows which posts have been clicked on and read, how many times they've been clicked on, and pages that have linked to your blog.  Traffic Source shows refering URL's, Refering sties, and searchs that brought up my blog.  Audience shows what countires my blog has been viewed from, what web browsers were used, and so on and so forth.  You can chose what amount of time you want to cover when you click on Now, Day, Week and so on.

I've explained all this so you can see why it's so interesting to go and look at my stats.  One of my favorite things to look at is refering sites.  Some of the most random things come up! One that I thought was interesting was from Christiancollegeadvisor.com.  It's a website that tells you all sorts of information about different colleges, and at th bottom it shows sites that have talked about it.  Jackson Hole Bible College's site came up and it said one of my blogposts had refered it... so this meant that someone had come looked at that site and had seen my post and had actually clicked on that.  I just thought it was interesting.

Anyways, every once in a while I go and look at my stats and it's actually very fun.  I realized that I'm actually stalking myself! It's almost as fun to stalk myself as it is to stalk other people! ;)