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Year-end report: This blog gets about one million page-views per year. 

A typical day has 2,500 to 3,000 page-views. 

I publish this blog in two formats. The original format is the Blogspot one (https://peterwsage.blogspot.com). It has searchable archives going back to the beginning in 2015. I also publish at Substack (https://peterwsage.substack.com) for people who prefer to get the blog sent to them by email.

Substack sends me reports like this, which track daily page-views:

About 1,400 a day, or 500,000 a year via Substack

This weekly chart shows about 11,000 page-views a week, a number consistent with the daily reports:

Substack readership numbers are credible to me based on their consistency. I can see that readers open posts.

Blogspot readers need to click on the site URL to access it. The numbers Blogspot reports are higher, which is nice to see, but they are wildly inconsistent, so I doubt their credibility. My post on Monday on Russia's invasion of Ukraine showed 15,000 page views. It makes me suspect Russian robots noted the subject and scanned it, creating an inflated page-view report. I am confident that it didn't suddenly go viral among human readers.  

Some big-day spikes do seem reasonable and organic to me. My post on the Medford Multicultural Fair showed a big two-day increase. I am presuming that real people clicked to see images of themselves and their friends performing.

Blogspot reported 78,150 page-views this month, 107,320 last month, and 1,490,000 for calendar year 2025. I have a report showing those page views, and I could claim them, but I do not. I suspect robot page views. More plausible to me for actual, human, engaged readers is to take the lower-end number from this report by Blogspot.

Blogspot page views bounce off a floor of 1,000 to 1,500 a day, or about 40,000 a month, which is approximately the same as Substack.

I put the two reader channels together to get the estimated 2,500 to 3,000 human readers on a typical day: about 1,000,000 page-views a year.

My most popular posts were the Multicultural Fair and the various Easy Sunday short, light-hearted ones. A controversial one saying that land acknowledgements backfired on their intended purpose also drew extra readers. Many people disagreed with me.

I don't know how the local newspaper, the Rogue Valley Times, calculates page views, or if they discount potentiasl robot page-views the way I do, but the RVT reported today that they had 1,075,335 page-views this year. 

I have readers all across the country but most of them are in Oregon:

If my blog were better, or if I marketed it better, or if I got lucky somehow, the blog might have gone viral and become much more popular. It has not. My readership has been on a plateau in 2025. I get about 30 new readers a month and about 30 a month drop off.

I don't try to duplicate the historical perspective of Heather Cox Richardson nor the economics perspective of Paul Krugman. There is substantial overlap in my readership with them:

I wake up early every morning, "bright eyed and bushy-tailed" as my father used to say. I write between 5 am and 8 am. Medford journalist Tam Moore, age 90 and still fully engaged as a community-minded citizen, reads the blog most days; he typically points out two or three errors. Ben Beach is a college classmate, now retired from his career as writer-editor for Wilderness Society publications. He, too, reads it nearly every day and points out different errors. I am grateful to both of them.

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