I’ve found, lately, that I pay altogether too much attention to that little module on the sidebar–you see it–that says how many visitors are currently on the site. It’s silly, unrelated to anything… and marginally addictive. I can post something new, and watch the visitors slowly grow. When the count of visitors climbs to the 40s or 50s, or (like late last night) to over a hundred, I wonder what it was that got the people here, and how to do it again.
Why?
It certainly isn’t money; despite the everpresent (though I cut a few out) Google Ads, the income flowing in from that is so negligible as to be non-existent (I suppose a site with a lot more traffic would experience different trends; I wouldn’t know, at the moment).
I don’t know if it’s just the idea of someone reading what you’ve written that makes it appealing; though for all we know, the visitors to the blogs take a brief look around and immediately dismiss it, or may even hate it.
But all the little “Who’s Online” module shows is the number of visitors.
Who cares? Then again, I keep the module there… because for some reason, I want to know.
