Who Likes Ya, Baby?

It's been a long time since I've done a post about my stats, mostly because I don't look at them all that often anymore. I gauge interest in what I've written about  by the comments more than by how many hits I get on a post.  However, statistics are useful, too, and often entertaining.

I've been glancing at the stats maybe a couple of times per month lately.  I find it fascinating that the same search criteria keep coming up over and over.  Apparently I've written about a few things that put me high enough up on the search results lists that people check out particular posts.  Curious which subjects these are?

Coffee substitutes - I wrote about comparing a bunch of coffee substitutes and it gets a lot of hits.  The link also got reposted on at least one discussion board bemoaning the discontinuation of Postum.

Vardo or often, vardo interior - I posted pictures of a fellow blogger's gypsy vardo and ever since then it always appears in the list of search terms in my stats.  I guess vardos fascinate people.

Hand crank blender - I've posted a couple of times about my Vortex blender.  Too bad it doesn't work as well as I wish it did.

Spoiled apple juice or "can apple juice go bad" - It's nice to know I'm not the only one who wonders about these things.  Yes, it can go bad.

Vegetarian sushi - my how-to posts are often popular.  Vegetarian sushi is easy to make once you get the hang of rolling up the nori. 

Fried rice without eggs - I've been a bit surprised how often this one shows up on the searches.  Who knew so many people wanted to make fried rice without eggs?

Sprouting wheat berries - This subject has shown up on the search lists ever since I put up the post three and a half years ago.  And my stats only cover 500 visits at a time, which means at least one in every 500 hits on my blog is going to this particular post.  And the folks looking for this information come from all over the world, often from Third World countries.  How to make corn tortillas is also an international subject of interest.

Bike powered grinder - Not surprisingly, this is also a popular search item.  It's much easier to manually grind grain with big powerful leg and glut. muscles rather than the smaller arm and shoulder ones.  I just need to make room in the house to set up the bike inside.  Time for some pedal power!

Basic or simple first aid kit - I truly hope that my little post on putting together our kit has been helpful to all the people who have checked it out.  We haven't had to use it yet, other than occasionally needing ibuprofen when on the road, but it's reassuring to know it's available in an emergency.  And yes, we do keep the products with expiration dates rotated.

Composting tissues - Can you compost snot?  Lots of people seem to wonder about this.  Read here to see my conclusions on the subject.

Blogger business card - I still love having a business card for my (non-business) blog and apparently a lot of other bloggers are curious about the idea.

Thistle socks - it actually surprises me a little how often this one shows up on the searches.  I wonder how many people have actually cut up their sweetie's old running shorts to make a thistle sock, though.

Prickly pear or "tuna" processing  -  I suppose it's not surprising that people would be interested in how to make prickly pear jelly.  After all, it tastes darn good.


It's been three years since I noted that people from 100 different countries had stopped by the blog.  I've long since stopped keeping track of the countries represented by visitors to the blog, but do find that it's interesting to see about thirty listed each time I look at the stats.  It's not the same thirty each time, but seems to be pretty consistent in that variety for each 500 hits. 

Folks from the US generally represent about two-thirds of my visitors.  Canadians fill in another quarter with Australia and the United Kingdom filling in most of the rest.  The remaining couple dozen countries usually reflect only one or maybe a few hits each.  This morning's review of the last 500 hits (about a day and a half) yielded this list of countries (in descending order by number of hits):

United States  

Canada  

Australia  

Malaysia  

United Kingdom  

Taiwan  

India  

Spain  

Belgium  

New Zealand  

Singapore  

United Arab Emirates  

Peru  

Egypt  

Germany  

Jordan  

Greece  

Lebanon  

Denmark  

Pakistan  

Korea, Republic Of  

Norway  

Switzerland  

Nigeria  

Slovakia  

Chile  

El Salvador  

Vietnam  

Trinidad And Tobago

I hope this post has amused and entertained you just a wee bit today.  I do have a couple more informative posts started but haven't gotten the text and/or photos complete yet.