It hit over 60,000 views this month. The Previous record was 55,954 views in February 2017. The reason there was fairly obvious. I had been tracking the daily progress of the Punitive Expedition, and the readership had increased steadily from the point in 2016 in which I started to do that.
Prior to that, readership was about 3,800 views per month. Tracking the Punitive Expedition, however, caused a steady rise, one which was aided by my cross posting many entries, which I later learned I was not supposed to do, on Reddit's 100 Years Ago today sub. Following the 100th anniversary of the withdrawal from Mexico, however, and my cessation of the cross posting, it declined by May 2017 to just under 10,000 views per month. It rose again by December 2017 to just over 38,500 views per month, and then fell back down to about 7,800 by February 2018. It's bounced around since then, but it basically drops to almost 5,000 views per month to up to around 10,000 views per month, normally. A couple of times hit has spiked, however, to highs in a single month, even up to 38,000 views.
In May of this year it had over 40,000 views, and then dropped to just over 9,000 the following month. In July, it was up to 12,000 views. Then suddenly it began skyrocketing to achieve the current new high.
Why? I don't really know. Daily high posts show that some people are coming in for World War Two events, and events of 1923, and to follow the Russo Ukrainian War. But there is no single thread that people have really been engaged with. The blog has now been viewed almost 1,250,000 times, which is quite a number, no doubt a fair number of times by repeat visitors.
If you are even one of the hits on that 1.25M, and most particularly if you are a repeat visitor, thank you for stopping in. And if you posted one or more comments here, all the more thanks.
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