We're 1000!

While some websites get thousands of hits per day, we here at T-Shirt Wars are comfortable with our 20-odd daily visits. We know that what we lack in numbers, we make up for in sheer quality of visitor… that’s you, dear reader.

And yesterday we hit a milestone, and one that we have been hoping to reach for some time – 1000 hits to our website, since we started way back in the dying throes of summer. We will be celebrating our 1000 hits with a sporadic series of blogs examining the phenomenon of T-Shirt Wars, starting today with you, the visitors. So who are our readers? What type of person would want to visit a weblog about 3 guys wearing T-shirts and being ridiculed by their workmates?

Well, contrary to popular belief, we do not boost our hits by visiting the website ourselves. Our Sitemeter is set to ignore our visits so no additional hits there. Blogger, the service hosting this site have a ‘Next Blog’ button on the header bar that lets you browse randomly through the thousands of blogs that they host, so a number of these ‘surprise’ visitors pass through every day, and I’m happy to say that some of them become repeat visitors. Other random interlopers arrive via search engines like Google or MSN. The variety of search terms (mostly, but not all T-shirt-related) that land them on our doorstep is quite fascinating, and we will expand on that in a future blog.

But the vast majority of our hits come from our beloved friends and colleagues. Workplace hits make up the single biggest grouping of hits to the site (although I’m sure that this does not affect your productivity!), followed by a large number made up by a small number of relatives (you know who you are…), and another swathe of hits comprising random friends and acquaintances. And we must not forget our friends who found their way here via Jen Garret’s blog, and bizarrely, from a Rock Climbing Forum. Thank you all, for your support and ridicule. Now, on with the War.

They say that War is Hell... At my signal - unleash Hell.