The stats measurements are as usual, odd. 13 K on Sitemeter, 9 K on WordPress Stats. Fairly consistent.

	Page Views	Unique Visits	First Time Visits	Returning Visits
July 2016	13,588	8,520	4,708	3,812

The question, however, is does this matter. I’d suggest you read Vox Day on this: he came to this late and from old media, and his site is now influential enough to get trolled, abused, and shadowbanned.

So, 2.5 million monthly pageviews, what does that matter? Isn’t that just vanity and ego-stroking? Well, no. That’s the same mistaken perception that I used to harbor. The truth is that engagement is the social media fuel upon which the engine of Internet influence runs, and pageviews are how engagement is measured. That’s why so many people try to fake engagement by click-baiting and buying fake followers and posting pictures of cute girls in bikinis and videos of cute animals doing cute things. If gold can be adulterated and inflated, then it should be no surprise that pageviews can be as well. As we know, they can even be entirely fictitious pageviews that are invented in interviews.

But as with gold, only pageviews based on genuine engagement matter in the end. And the sort of pageviews one receives on an old-fashioned, text-heavy site are 24-carat quality. I’d much rather have my readers, and their 2.5 million pageviews, than 10 million pageviews of the sort produced by the readers of a Gawker-style clickbait site.

If this site has any influence it is not seen here. I don’t want it seen here. If it gets people back before Christ, and working in families to show righteousness in their lives, then it s working. If it makes me more righteous and influences those around me for good it is working.

But if it is just virtue signalling and intellectual posturing, then I should be doing something else in the morning. Like sleeping. It would do less damage.