439 hits!

That’s right!  I got 439 visitors blogging about David Archuleta the other day.  That translated to 571 page views, which means some in the “Archuleta Army” actually looked around Capsun’s Corner and didn’t just come to defend his honor.  Please note, that’s about one week’s worth of visitors, so it has to be my David Archuleta post that brought all the traffic.

So how do I know how many people visited? I run Google Analytics that tracks all sorts of information about visitors to Capsun’s Corner.  It’s a data cruncher’s dream come true.  I can tell you all sorts of things about my visitors from that day:

• The average visitor stayed for 1 minute, 13 seconds.
• 177 of them use the Firefox browser, just like me.  Haven’t heard of Firefox, or don’t use it?  You should check it out.
• 92 were from outside of the United States.
• Curiously, 1 used a dial-up connection.  I didn’t know people used those anymore, and with the photo, it must have taken a while to load, so I thank the visitor who did.

Stats aside, I have to give myself slops for not enforcing my own rule on comments:

Granted, I’m not a David Archuleta fan, but many of the comments were of a personal attack nature and should not have been approved.  For that, I apologize.  I will leave them up so that readers may reference them.  In the future, however, I will be more careful about noting personal attacks and not approving those messages no matter who you are.  Tuesday was the first day I ever witnessed attacks here, so it took a little while to register that I publicly stated it was one of the two things I wouldn’t tolerate, profanity being the other.  At least I erred on the side of allowing public discourse instead of censoring it, until I remembered my policy.

I’m a big proponent of the First Amendment – you know, the one that has Freedom of Speech, and of the Press.  After all, I’m a blogger.  But remember also that this is my personal space and you have to play by my rules if you want to play here at all.  If you disagree, you’re more than welcome to do so on your own space.  Hey, if you’ve got something to say, go for it. You can even start your own blog!  And by all means, disagree with me.  I mean, most of my closest friends completely disagree with me on politics and other issues we discuss.

I really am disappointed in some of the visitors, both old and new, for their remarks.  Probably worst of all were the ones who insulted my fiancee. Yes, I didn’t like the inconvenience of the adventure, but that was no reason to call her names, people!  We are going to get married later this year, and we’re a package deal, for better or worse.

Let’s hope that’s the end of it, and the end of David Archuleta on Capsun’s Corner.

Mahalo!

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