{"id":6526,"date":"2020-07-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2020-08-12T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:18:25","slug":"some-people-must-be-watching-site-stats-60k-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/20\/some-people-must-be-watching-site-stats-60k-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Some People Must Be Watching &#8211; Site Stats 60k Views"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we approach 3 years since out kit arrived I thought it would be interesting to share some stats on this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I created the site for two reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, it was to give something back. I&#8217;d looked at many build blogs and learnt so much from them. And I wanted to be able to give something back to &#8220;the community&#8221; by hopefully helping those coming after me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, I wanted to document my build. The added nudge of the blog, every time I stepped into the garage, got me taking more photos and documenting what I was doing. I still have a chuckle whenever I read it back through again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, in part to show people that blogging a build is not a worthless exercise, and that people building after you do actually look at what you&#8217;ve written, here&#8217;s a statistics print screen from WordPress on where we&#8217;ve got to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1334\" height=\"2048\" data-attachment-id=\"6528\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/20\/some-people-must-be-watching-site-stats-60k-views\/purplemeanie-site-stats-60k\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1668,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-1334x2048.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-1334x2048.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-1334x2048.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-391x600.jpg 391w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-768x1179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-1001x1536.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-scaled.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as of today (July 20th 2020) we&#8217;ve had 60,000 page views. Here&#8217;s a view from the WordPress Monster Insights statistics page for the past 30 days&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1437\" height=\"2048\" data-attachment-id=\"6530\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/20\/some-people-must-be-watching-site-stats-60k-views\/monster-insights-purplemeanie-site-stats-60k\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Monster-Insights-Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k.png\" data-orig-size=\"2804,3997\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Monster-Insights-Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Monster-Insights-Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-1437x2048.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Monster-Insights-Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-1437x2048.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Monster-Insights-Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-1437x2048.png 1437w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Monster-Insights-Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-421x600.png 421w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Monster-Insights-Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-768x1095.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Monster-Insights-Purplemeanie-Site-Stats-60k-1078x1536.png 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1437px) 100vw, 1437px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach 3 years since out kit arrived I thought it would be interesting to share some stats on this website. I created the site for two reasons. Firstly, it was to give something back. I&#8217;d looked at many build blogs and learnt so much from them. And I wanted to be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-website","tag-website"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Monster-Insights-Page-View-Header-60k.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phg0Uj-1Hg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1945,"url":"https:\/\/staging.purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/26\/back-with-some-stats-how-much-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":6526,"position":0},"title":"Back with Some Stats &#8211; How Much Time!","author":"John Martin","date":"March 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Three months on from the build and time to do a look back at some statistics... 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