Weird Traffic Behaviour

Submitted by Chris McLeod on March 17, 2006 - 8:28pm in
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I've been reviewing my stats following a couple of short breaks from my blog - both from other "real-world" projects requiring my full attention.

What I discovered had me scratching my head quite a bit: traffic rose substantially when I wasn't writing, but dropped immediately (by almost 50%) once I resumed publishing again and has continued to fall. It's now hovering around 25% of what it peaked at while I wasn't updating.

The first time this happened during the longer (6 weeks) break I thought it was just a fluke or more pages were managing to get indexed due to the less frequent updates, but the second break (which was only 10 days) suggest it's neither.

Has anyone else seen this sort of behaviour? Or could anyone suggest a plausible reason why this might happen? Or do people just not like me..? ;-)

Strange, its usually the

Submitted by Chris Garrett on March 17, 2006 - 9:27pm.

Strange, its usually the other way round - more content = more traffic

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