I’m a stats junkie, and WordPress gives its bloggers an amazingly detailed statistics page, which is awesome. I love studying the numbers, and have found out through studying my stats page, which of my articles, tags and categories are the most popular, and that’s very helpful to me as a new blogger who wants to increase readership. My recent post about my son being “furry” is my top rated post, closely followed by my n00blogger rant, “I’m Frustrated.” I think the titles have a lot to do with how popular an article gets: it has to be grabby. I’m finding out that catchy, short titles that make some sort of statement about yourself get the most attention. If that statement hints at controversy, that’s even better. It’s good to know this. But I digress.

The coolest thing about the stats page is the map and countries list. Realizing that my posts (and yours, too) are being seen all over the world the moment we press “publish” is pretty incredible.

I keep going back to study the map and all the countries that have seen my posts and it blows me away every time. So far 29 countries have seen my posts, including a few far flung ones like Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Malaysia, and New Zealand. It’s hard to wrap my brain around the idea that the thoughts, feelings and opinions that were just inside my head can be known by someone on the other side of the planet almost as soon as I type them out. And that is so, so, so cool.