Happy Flashback Friday! I closed For Wayback Wednesday, PBS Eons asks 'What Killed All These Pterosaurs?' by telling my readers "I'll get to the stats for the 15th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News on Flashback Friday..." Without any further ado, here is the first retrospective of the 15th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
As of 11:59 PM EDT March 20, 2026, this blog had a lifetime total of 10,896,134 page views, 6,536 posts, and 4,274 comments. Minus the 5,222,122 page views, 6,168 total posts, and 4,180 comments as of just before March 21, 2025, that means this blog earned 5,674,012 page views and 94 published comments on 368 posts during the 365 days of the 15th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News. My calculated page views round to the ~5,670,000 page views Blogger's counter showed during the past twelve months. I can't ask for any better given the level of precision available, so not only closer than last year, but as exact as I could measure. On the other hand, the 94 published comments are not at all close to the 125 comments Blogger showed on my dashboard. On the other hand, I can account for the 31 comment difference; all of them are spam that was never published or retroactively unpublished. The stats worked out this year!
Last year's trend of increasing page views continued. Not only did this past year's 5,674,012 page views on 368 posts during 365 days beat the year before's 758,914 page views on 370 posts during 365 days, it beat the year before that's 419,300 page views on 641,234 page views on 380 posts during 366 days. It also exceeded the page views during the entire preceding 14 years. Wow! I had written "May the trend" of "working less hard for more page views" continue, but this was beyond any of my expectations. The blog averaged 15,418.51 page views per post and 15,545.24 page views per day. That's nearly eight times as much as the 2,051.12 page views per post and 2,079.22 page views per day during the 14th year of the blog, the 1,687.46 page views per post and 1,752.01 page views per day the blog earned between March 21, 2023 and March 20, 2024 and the 1,106.33 page views per post and 1,148.77 page views per day between March 21, 2022 and March 20, 2023. I'm not expecting the trend of increasing page views per post and day to continue. I'd just be happy if the 16th year exceeds the 14th.
Both the published and total comments decreased from 123 to 94 and either 154 or 133 to 125, respectively. The published number is still above the 78 of two years ago, but the raw number has decreased from 199 through either 154 or 133 to 125. Since I don't have comment goals, I'm not concerned.
As for my commenters who aren't spammers, I'd like to thank them, beginning with continuing commenters Infidel753, Paul W., and Steve in Manhattan. I also want to welcome back K-dog and Degringolade, who didn't comment last year. Keep up the good work! I also want to thank Richard, Glen Tomkins, and fry1laurie for making their first posts here. Stick around! The exception is Riverboat Grambler, who pissed me off. Don't come back, Grumbler! Unfortunately, I seem to have lost longtime commenters Nebris, the first commenter on my blog, and Friend of the Court. In addition, last year's first-time commenters John R. Christiansen, E.A. Blair, and Steven C. Di Pietro didn't return. Come back, I miss you!
Follow over the jump for the rest of the analysis.
The top two referring sites remained the same as last year while switching places. Google search provided 120,140 page views, more than an order of magnitude greater than last year's 7,998. I suspect my international visitors were using Google to find my blog. All variations of Facebook contributed 8,889 page views, less than half last year's 20,042. That continues a trend of fewer Facebook visitors to my blog over the past four years, with 28,702 in 2023-2024 and 47,847 and 2022-2023. Some of that is certainly something to do with Facebook, but the rest is that I'm using Facebook less to promote my blog. True, I post links to my blog every day at the Crazy Eddie's Motie News page (if you're on Facebook, please like the page!), but I'm sharing fewer links at the Citizen Connect (formerly Coffee Party USA) Facebook page. That's because, once I meet my monthly page view goal, I suspend sharing links to my blog until the next month. I have better things to do with a Facebook page that at its peak had more than one million followers than self-promotion!
No More Mister Nice Blog jumped from fifth to third, referring 1,878 readers, an increase from last year's 1,807 and the year before's 1,608 page views — all that from Steve M. keeping my blog on his blogroll. Thanks, Steve! Infidel753 fell to fourth with 1,547 people coming here from his blog. This was a decrease from last year's 2,293, reversing a three-year trend of increasing page views. Thanks, Infidel, for linking to me in your Saturday blog roundups and maintaining the blog on your blogroll! X, the site formerly known as Twitter, rose from sixth to fifth with 1,187 despite a fifth consecutive year of declining page views and my using X less and Bluesky more. That's because Crooks and Liars fell from fourth to sixth to with 990, slightly more than half last year's 1,902, reversing three years of gains. Just the same, thanks to Steve in Manhattan, Tengrain, and Driftglass for linking to my blog!
The rest of the top referring sites are new to Crazy Eddie's Motie News: douban.com provided 762, activision.com 736, macys.com 692, indeed.com 668, duke.edu 665, glassdoor.com 660, twitch.tv 654, nintendo.com 648, unsplash.com 591, ebay.com 536, and moodle.org 531. I strongly suspect my international readers were responsible for those. I also strongly suspect that nearly all of them were bots and my intuition is that they were scraping my site to train AI, although frankly I have no direct evidence of this. Consequently, Blogger search, Pinterest, Yandex, Threads, Vagabond Scholar, and Bing, which composed the bottom half of last year's top twelve referring sites, fell out of the top twelve and contributed to the 5,532,260 visits from other referring sites. The best I can say for all of them is that each individually yielded less than moodle.org's 531.
Once again, last year's top search terms look very different from previous years, although this year the raw data show that they are from Google search, not search terms used within Blogger, as I wrote last year. The theme changed as well. Last year, entertainment terms in Spanish and Portuguese stood out. This year, people were looking for liberal blogs. The number one term was "crazyeddiethemotie" with 17369, followed by "nomoremister" at 3034, "hometown-usa" with 631, "infidel753" at 608, "holtesthoughts" with 425, "beyondrealtime" at 134, "blogspot" with 75, "balkin" at 46, "alicublog" with 37, "commentarysoup" at 29, "lovable-liberal" with 24, "hackwhackers" at 23, "rogerailes" with 19, "nevergetofftheboat" and "ranchchimpjournal," the reason I'm still listing search terms past the top ten, tied at 17, and "alieaday," "clarkstooksbury," "nothstine," and "thewhirlpool" all tied at 16. Now I wonder if someone is doing intelligence on liberal blogs, not just AI training. Then, again, based on who's doing most of the reading, if that's what it is, I have some doubts.
Finally, it's time to review the top countries providing readers to my blog. I begin with the annual statistics.
Vietnam was last in the annual top twenty during 2021-2022 at eighteenth with 670, but it topped this year's chart with 3,909,845 page views. This is why I suspect a lot of my page views came from bots. Last year's leader the United States slipped to second despite increasing visits from 209,277 to 709,509. This is why I also wonder if some entity is doing intelligence on liberal blogs. Singapore stayed in third while increasing its page views from 195,204 to 225,636. Brazil remained in fourth with 195,653, again while increasing its page views from 46,401. Hong Kong dropped to fifth from second with 76,455, an increase from 46,401, a theme of this year's stats. Germany held steady at sixth while increasing page views from 13,366 to 53,750. India rocketed from 13th to seventh at 31,603. The United Kingdom climbed from tenth to eight with 29,146. China clung to ninth with 26,199. Argentina entered the top ten with 23,166 rising from 16th.
France leads off the second ten in eleventh place with 18,992, falling from eigthth. Mexico maintained its twelfth place ranking with 16,185. Bangladesh entered the top twenty at lucky 13th with 16,133. Canada cascaded from fifth to fourteenth with 12,071. Russia receded from 11th to 15th with 10,967. Saudi Arabia returned to the top twenty for the first time since 2023, when it ranked 19th, at 16th with 10,840. The Philippines popped into the top twenty for the first time at 17th with 10,813. Türkiye tumbled from 14th to 18th with 10,648. Finland found itself back in the top twenty after finishing off the leaderboard at 19th with 10,418, as did Indonesia with 10,375 to round out the top twenty. Austria, Israel, Belgium, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela dropped out of the top twenty, contributing their page views to the 264,962 lumped under Other. Maybe I'll see some of these countries in next year's statistics
Now for the all-time readership numbers by country. Vietnam's 3,909,845 page views this year were enough to catapult it into first all-time at 3,911,824. It had contributed 1,979 page views during the previous 14 years! The United States slid to second at 3,638,948. Singapore slipped to third at 712,485. France fell to fourth at 354,597. Hong Kong hobbled to fifth at 318,419. Brazil beat four countries to slip into sixth at 247,636. Germany stayed at seventh with 183,088. Canada continued to cascade to eighth at 147,765. Sweden continued its slide down to ninth at 140,811. Russia rapelled to tenth at 125,455.
The United Kingdom edged down to eleventh to lead the next ten at 95,225. China climbed from fourteenth to twelfth at 45,274. I hear Italians consider 13 lucky, so Italy should be thrilled that they dropped from eleventh to 13th at 43,093. Since I'm not Italian, I don't think that's so fortunate. Ukraine fell to 14th at 39,659. After several years in the annual top twenty, India finally entered the all-time top twenty at 15th with 38,672. India and other countries nudged the Netherlands down to 16th with 32,284. Argentina also entered the top twenty with its 25,700 good enough for 17th. So did Mexico, whose 20,664 moved up to 18th. Australia actually gained page views to 19,179 but still dropped to 19th. Finally, Indonesia finally made it into the top twenty at 20th with 19,122. Austria, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan all fell out of the top twenty to be part of Other's 736,211. So did Unknown Region. Good riddance!
That's a wrap for this past year's statistics. Stay tuned for another retrospective, which will also be a driving update, just like last year.
Previous posts in this series Previous statistics posts
The rest of the top referring sites are new to Crazy Eddie's Motie News: douban.com provided 762, activision.com 736, macys.com 692, indeed.com 668, duke.edu 665, glassdoor.com 660, twitch.tv 654, nintendo.com 648, unsplash.com 591, ebay.com 536, and moodle.org 531. I strongly suspect my international readers were responsible for those. I also strongly suspect that nearly all of them were bots and my intuition is that they were scraping my site to train AI, although frankly I have no direct evidence of this. Consequently, Blogger search, Pinterest, Yandex, Threads, Vagabond Scholar, and Bing, which composed the bottom half of last year's top twelve referring sites, fell out of the top twelve and contributed to the 5,532,260 visits from other referring sites. The best I can say for all of them is that each individually yielded less than moodle.org's 531.
Once again, last year's top search terms look very different from previous years, although this year the raw data show that they are from Google search, not search terms used within Blogger, as I wrote last year. The theme changed as well. Last year, entertainment terms in Spanish and Portuguese stood out. This year, people were looking for liberal blogs. The number one term was "crazyeddiethemotie" with 17369, followed by "nomoremister" at 3034, "hometown-usa" with 631, "infidel753" at 608, "holtesthoughts" with 425, "beyondrealtime" at 134, "blogspot" with 75, "balkin" at 46, "alicublog" with 37, "commentarysoup" at 29, "lovable-liberal" with 24, "hackwhackers" at 23, "rogerailes" with 19, "nevergetofftheboat" and "ranchchimpjournal," the reason I'm still listing search terms past the top ten, tied at 17, and "alieaday," "clarkstooksbury," "nothstine," and "thewhirlpool" all tied at 16. Now I wonder if someone is doing intelligence on liberal blogs, not just AI training. Then, again, based on who's doing most of the reading, if that's what it is, I have some doubts.
Finally, it's time to review the top countries providing readers to my blog. I begin with the annual statistics.
Vietnam was last in the annual top twenty during 2021-2022 at eighteenth with 670, but it topped this year's chart with 3,909,845 page views. This is why I suspect a lot of my page views came from bots. Last year's leader the United States slipped to second despite increasing visits from 209,277 to 709,509. This is why I also wonder if some entity is doing intelligence on liberal blogs. Singapore stayed in third while increasing its page views from 195,204 to 225,636. Brazil remained in fourth with 195,653, again while increasing its page views from 46,401. Hong Kong dropped to fifth from second with 76,455, an increase from 46,401, a theme of this year's stats. Germany held steady at sixth while increasing page views from 13,366 to 53,750. India rocketed from 13th to seventh at 31,603. The United Kingdom climbed from tenth to eight with 29,146. China clung to ninth with 26,199. Argentina entered the top ten with 23,166 rising from 16th.
France leads off the second ten in eleventh place with 18,992, falling from eigthth. Mexico maintained its twelfth place ranking with 16,185. Bangladesh entered the top twenty at lucky 13th with 16,133. Canada cascaded from fifth to fourteenth with 12,071. Russia receded from 11th to 15th with 10,967. Saudi Arabia returned to the top twenty for the first time since 2023, when it ranked 19th, at 16th with 10,840. The Philippines popped into the top twenty for the first time at 17th with 10,813. Türkiye tumbled from 14th to 18th with 10,648. Finland found itself back in the top twenty after finishing off the leaderboard at 19th with 10,418, as did Indonesia with 10,375 to round out the top twenty. Austria, Israel, Belgium, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela dropped out of the top twenty, contributing their page views to the 264,962 lumped under Other. Maybe I'll see some of these countries in next year's statistics
Now for the all-time readership numbers by country. Vietnam's 3,909,845 page views this year were enough to catapult it into first all-time at 3,911,824. It had contributed 1,979 page views during the previous 14 years! The United States slid to second at 3,638,948. Singapore slipped to third at 712,485. France fell to fourth at 354,597. Hong Kong hobbled to fifth at 318,419. Brazil beat four countries to slip into sixth at 247,636. Germany stayed at seventh with 183,088. Canada continued to cascade to eighth at 147,765. Sweden continued its slide down to ninth at 140,811. Russia rapelled to tenth at 125,455.
The United Kingdom edged down to eleventh to lead the next ten at 95,225. China climbed from fourteenth to twelfth at 45,274. I hear Italians consider 13 lucky, so Italy should be thrilled that they dropped from eleventh to 13th at 43,093. Since I'm not Italian, I don't think that's so fortunate. Ukraine fell to 14th at 39,659. After several years in the annual top twenty, India finally entered the all-time top twenty at 15th with 38,672. India and other countries nudged the Netherlands down to 16th with 32,284. Argentina also entered the top twenty with its 25,700 good enough for 17th. So did Mexico, whose 20,664 moved up to 18th. Australia actually gained page views to 19,179 but still dropped to 19th. Finally, Indonesia finally made it into the top twenty at 20th with 19,122. Austria, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan all fell out of the top twenty to be part of Other's 736,211. So did Unknown Region. Good riddance!
That's a wrap for this past year's statistics. Stay tuned for another retrospective, which will also be a driving update, just like last year.
Previous posts in this series Previous statistics posts
- Stats for the 14th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News on Wayback Wednesday
- Stats for the 13th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News on Throwback Tuesday
- Stats for the 12th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News on Throwback Thursday
- Statistics for the eleventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Statistics for the tenth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Statistics for the ninth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Statistics for the eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Stats for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Statistics for the sixth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Statistics for the fifth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Statistics for the fourth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Statistics for the third year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Second Year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News: Statistics
- The first year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News: Part 1 of several
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