For years, I’d been relying on WordPress’s native stats system. Sure, I knew it wasn’t the best, but it worked well enough for what i wanted it for. For years before that, I’d been relying on Sitemeter’s more in-depth statistics on who comes here. There was nothing wrong with that either. Week in and week out, it would deliver a very pleasing email to me, letting me know that yeah, 1000′s of people really were reading what gets scrawled here by me.
Just last year, I started to implement the industry standard – Google Analytics – but for one reason or another (mostly to do with laziness I think), I never got the code up. Until about 1/2 way through January. Yep, no doubt that GA is top of the game for the best stats but in setting it up, I learned something pretty interesting:
The first time I looked, NJRD’s epic story “Secrets” was responsible for a whopping 24% of the hits my page took! With this in mind, I changed the “Soul Mates” widget at the top of the page to “Secrets” and, within a few minutes of this change, and the day’s tally of visitors not even being complete, “Secrets” is up to 20% of this blog’s visitors!
I guarantee that if I checked at the end of the day, it’d be even higher 
It’s a fantastic story, with elements a lot of you enjoy – why not drop the author a line, via comments or the contact page up there in the menu bar? Tell her how much you liked it!