One thousand and still going

This is my 1000th blog post - Can you believe it?

It seemed like a good time to thank everyone who has regularly visited and stuck with reading everything that I have written.

According to my blog counter 108,203 visits have been made - I wonder how many have been accidental -just people clicking on next blog and hurrying on finding absolutely nothing of interest!

According to Blogger stats my all time visits are just 90,483 but as I remember Blogger hasn't produced stats from the very start of my blogging life whereas the counter above was installed on day 1.

Apparently the most visited post was about Buying Compost written in May of this year. It has had 1,514 page views.  I had expected that it would have been a post written much earlier as this would have been around for longer but I guess it was a subject that touched a nerve. We were planting up tomatoes this week and in one grow bag found this. Its a chunk of 40mm x 15mm by about 150mm long (about 1.5 ins x 3/4 ins and 6 ins long). We wre using the bag to top uo the growing rings - I guess if we had just been using it as a grow bag we would have never noticed it.

But I digress so back on subject. Thanks to Mark from Marks Veg Plot  - his blog has referred the highest number of visits at 571.

The most often used key word search to direct visitors to my blog is sweet piccallili which is rather surprising.

Thanks to everyone who has commented on posts too - again accoding to Blogger Stats there have been 5524 comments dating to when Blogger started counting so in fact this number doesn't reflect everyone's comment. Sorry I can't tell you who the most prolific commenter is as I don't fancy trwling through and manually counting

Then thanks to everyone who visits quietly - it's great to see the number of followers going up and always a bit sad when the number actually goes down to indicate that someone has had enough! I wonder if I'll make it to 200 this year?

Then there is the fascination of realising just where all the vistors come from. This map covers 42,744 made between 25 Jan 2010 to 6 Jun 2012.

Reading the detailed breakdown of where visitors come from is mind boggling.

Disclaimer:

Numbers were accurate yesterday morning when I wrote this post but have gone up since then! It's made me realise how quickly the numbers rise!