On reading this blog, the 2016 update

To make sure this blog is still on the right track - that it is topical and holds interest for readers - I do an annual review of the traffic this blog receives. A little over a year has passed since the last review and as this blog just had its three millionth view today, I thought it a good time to do the annual statistical round-up. If you're interested, here's the data.

• Of traditional readers (people who visit the blog through normal web browsing) the last full month (May) shows 52,000. Total visits since the beginning of the blog is a little over 3 million.
• Google Friend Connect is at 267. It's not a popular service, but people still add and remove themselves monthly.
• The number one referrer (after removing search engines from the mix) is Facebook, which is new. Of blogs the leader continues to be my good friend at Ad Orientem.
• Although not much publicized, this blog has a Twitter feed with 1,415 followers, last year's total was 1,046.

Put together, the data would seem to report that this blog is faring rather well. I am, of course, always happy to receive comments, tweets, or emails on ways this blog could improve.

In the last few months I've been asked to merge this blog into larger blogging efforts. So far I haven't acquiesced, but who knows what the future will bring. This blog has followed me from home, to seminary, to the priesthood. I appreciate your reading it and joyfully declare that "Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen!"