Paul Bazay, who redesigned my Residua website nearly two years ago, added Google Analytics to the site in November last year (“Google Analytics,” November 16, 2008). For better or worse, I started collecting several statistics from it only in March this year. Google Analytics offers all sorts of data concerning the site usage on a monthly basis, but the tables and charts it offers also show daily variations in the data. For instance, I have had one-hundred and sixty-one unique visitor since September 22, of which eleven visited my site yesterday. My growing spreadsheet shows a couple of trends over the last seven months. First, I have about two-hundred visitors a month on the average, but that number has dropped over the period by nearly a hundred. Second, the number of countries from which these visitors come averages thirty, and has remained stable. Third, the amount of time visitors spend on the site averages five minutes, and has been stable, as well. Fourth, the bounce rate, showing the percentage of visitors who have visited only the motto on the site’s front page, averages twenty-eight percent, but it has grown by some five percent over the seven months. All in all, little to boast about, if anything. Although my site is now accessible to all kinds of search engines, and although my pieces are cited often enough by referring sites, nothing spectacular has happened so far. In spite of a couple of hundred of faithful readers around the globe, my Residua site is yet to be discovered, as it were.

Addendum I (November 4, 2016)

Almost exactly eight years after Google Analytics was added to my website, the vaunted statistics have not changed very much. If they have been of any use over the years, it is in pointing out that little if any change regarding my website’s place on the World Wide Web can be expected any time in the future. To this day, there are about two-hundred visitors per month. And there is no reason to believe that this number will ever change. Why would it, anyway? At best, my site serves my own purposes. I can read my own writings and extend them by writing addenda such as this one till my last breath, but that is all there is to it. Alas, my Residua are there for my own entertainment! Which is why I cannot but feel ever-so-slightly annoyed by this piece’s title. Yet to be discovered, my ass.

Addendum II (February 28, 2018)

Well, well. According to Google Analytics, the number of visitors to my Residua website has been dropping for more than a year now. Ever since I introduced fallow days and ever-longer fallow periods, the downward trend is unmistakable. Which only strengthens my feelings reported in the first addendum. The site serves my own purposes, and that is all I care about at present. If it ever gets discovered, as it were, this is of no concern to me. Visitors, schmisitors.