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(The Milky Way galaxy is rising behind a distant series of tall, jagged rock outcrops jutting up from a desert floor with scattered shrubs, stretching up to the left in a starry sky)
It seems to have become quite the thing to do an end of year “our impact this year” report - and, to be honest, I consider that a good management tool for many organisations, particularly those that rely on donations to any significant extent (for the reflection, as much as anything).
And while opportunities to provide financial appreciation/support of this blog exist, that doesn’t feature in my writing decisions.
I am also somewhat limited by the nature of this blog, which is an older Internet tool, and the fact that I turned off comments years ago to stop the scam artists pestering me and because I did not and do not have the time or energy to moderate comments (there have been court cases here in Australia which basically make it clear that moderation to control defamatory, hate, etc comments is a duty).
However, there are two tools that I care about, and those are the number of views I get, and the number and spread of nations that those views come from.
Earlier this year I did two posts which were, for me, particularly significant:
“Post No. 3,174 - personal milestone: 1,000,000 views” [of this blog] https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/07/post-no-3174-personal-milestone-1000000.html Tuesday, 8th July 2025
and, a few weeks earlier,
- “Post No. 2,806 - A personal milestone: one million views across all my blogs” https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2024/06/post-no-2806-personal-milestone-one.html Tuesday, 11th June 2024
There is information in those posts about the nations where most views came from, and the stats on my other blogs.
Achieving those two milestones was satisfying to me personally, and the numbers are often of some significance - although I have no specific idea how my blog(s) compare with other blogs, as most assessments are based on interactions (via the equivalent of comments), and Blogger doesn’t seem to provide any comparative data (and a specialised focus such as this blog inevitably would not be comparable with blogs on more popular topics).
I am also pleased by the number and spread of nations that views come from - I am particularly pleased to get more views from Central & Southern America this year, and continue to be awed by the views I get from Asia.
The other key aspect from this year is that the views over the last twelve months (which is not exactly the year 2025, given that I am looking at this a little over a week early) have been the highest number ever, which I am also VERY pleased about.
Unfortunately, I have had to stop doing my Psychic Weather Reports for the sake of my health: normally I would expect that to result in a decline in the number of views - and there has been some decline, but not as much as I expected.
I'm not going to post all the imagery I have done for previous such posts, but the key numbers are:
- Musings of Gnwmythr
- 420,000 views from over (the 12 month view doesn't show all nations, only those with the highest number of views) 19 nations (Brazil tops the list, followed by Singapore)
- Gnwmythr’s Candles
- 61,000 views from over 20 nations (France tops the list, followed by Singapore)
- Musings of Kayleen
- 40,900 views from over 19 nations (top views were from, starting at the highest, United States, Singapore, Brazil, Germany, Vietnam, Hong Kong, France, and Mexico - which shows the sort of range of viewing nations I like) - this blog doing much better was very pleasing
- Gnwmythr’s Glossary
- 34,200 views from over 19 nations (top views were from, starting at the highest, Brazil, United States, Singapore, Germany, Vietnam, Hong Kong, France, and Austria)
And then we come to the blog that keeps on giving: Political Musings of Kayleen.
When I stopped actively posting on that blog, a little over a year ago, it had 180,000 total views: it now has a total of just under 380,000 views, with 206,000 views from over 19 nations (Singapore tops the list, followed by United States, Brazil, Hong Kong, France, Vietnam, Mexico and Argentina) on five continents (no views show up in the top listing from my nation) in the last twelve months.
I am surprised by that, but pleasantly so - I deliberately set that up to be a referable resources as much as possible (as I have also done with this blog and my Glossary).
So, overall, I consider my blogging has had a good impact.
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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