HSD: Uniques pop over 300 on 20/11/2012

It’s amazing what happens when you are not looking. I have not been paying much attention at all to my site for the last four weeks or so. My work is consuming all my thinking time. My ‘beautiful’ project is having some issues. After 14 months of preparation we are now starting to deploy. Whenever large IT projects involving rebuilding all the PCs in the business—we are rebuilding all PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7—get to the deployment phase there is always a period of what is referred to as ‘Deployment Inertia’. Deployment inertia is the term used to cover all the things that go wrong with the deployment phase at the start because they were overlooked, or if they were thought of they were not properly resolved.

Anyway, as I said, I was not paying much attention to my site.

Then now, when I just checked the statistics, I see I have a day where the uniques went over 300. In fact there are four days of high unique counts, for my site anyway, from the 19th to the 22nd of November.

I just had to find out what it was.

As regular readers might have guessed the cause of these numbers was down to three posting. Top of the chart was the Adrianne Palicki posting (here for anyone wanting to check it out), second was ‘the amazing transformation’ wallpaper (here), and third was the cute babe posting featuring Emilia Clarke (here).

One of my postings about the new Forester due out around February next year in Australia was in the Top 5 (it was 5th), but the view count for that was just 83 compared to the view count for Emilia Clarke of 158 (almost double).

For whatever reason 4th place went to a posting about categorising posts and I never did understand why this posting often manages to get a lot of views, and still seems to. Very odd. A mystery really.