Adieu to Fio's Sudden Popularity

Fiorella's stats, which had risen to 700+ pageviews per day for about a month there, have gone down to about 150 and will probably dip lower, back into the reality level for a blog that doesn't even advertise. The increase was caused by a sudden intense readership in France, which threw Fio for a loop. Was her blog being used as a school assignment to help students with colloquial English?  Was the French government looking at it to gauge American political opinion? Was it being used to encrypt secret messages, maybe from Russia to Trump? Qui sait?

(And yep, an earlier version of this blog was posted before it was supposed to be. Fio screws up from time to time.)

Electronic Ignorance Revisited

Will some kind soul out there who has a big heart and an electronic brain explain Fiorella's "stats?"  She discovered them about six weeks ago along the side of her table-of-contents page and has been semi-enjoying them ever since.  But what do they actually mean, except that Fio's strategy of refusing to market herself has actually produced  a couple of faithful viewers?

First, what is the following "Pageviews" as opposed to the one below it?.

Babel Reconstructed May 9, 2013	8
Nice to Be Noticed May 8, 2013	7
Gardening May 7, 2013	7
One-liner May 10, 2013	6
Three More Sonia Snippets                                          4 May 6, 2013 Pageviews today                                                 2 Pageviews yesterday                                        50 Pageviews last month                                     1,952 Pageviews all time history Second, why, according to the ever-changing dailies, does Fiorella usually have more audience in the old USSR than in the USA?  (This list was an aberration.) United States 133 Russia 127 India 16 Germany 9 United Kingdom 5 Canada 4 Brazil 2 Romania 2 Australia 1Oman 1 HELP ME! 36,016

Fiorella's Record

Fiorella isn't fond of Facebook.  She's sick and tired of the egotism--as if anyone is interested in reading about the minutia of other people's lives. Oops, wait a minute--isn't that what Fiorella writes about daily on her blog--the minutia of her own life?

And speaking of Fiorella's blog, she has been exploring that list she told you about, the one that gave her access to "comments," and she's discovered information on her viewing statistics. In case you've wondered, seventy-two viewed yesterday's  blog, sixty-three people viewed Thursday's, and ninety-one viewed Wednesday's.  Last month she had 1,975 "pageviews," and her all-time total is 31,968. Actually, she usually averages only about eight viewers per day, but she consoles herself that several people, including Husband, check her out just once a week. 

She also discovered that she's had readers 'round the word: 183 in the US, thirty-three in Germany, twenty-six in the UK (thank you, Suzy G.), five in France, four in Latvia, two in China, one in Canada, and one in the Czech Republic.  Fio can only speculate that English students in Germany, France, Latvia. China, and the Czech Republic are using her blog to practice their English reading skill.

All in all, not bad for someone who doesn't advertise.