Normally I have 20-30 page views per day, As of 15:00 I had 29,500 page views for today. The geographic distribution was:
France 10382
Belgium 4189
Philippines 2392
Kuwait 1443
Spain 262
United States 17
On an hourly basis there were 1200-1800 page views since 0900 this morning.
The views of individual pages were from 17 to 27 for a total 203. That means most of these “users” were accessing the site rather than individual pages.
I made my first blogger entry on 2006-09-15 and I have made 2597 posts. The most page views of a post - 292 on “Mike Peters ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’”. Today’s traffic accounts for over 1/6th of eleven years of traffic.
I have no idea why this spike has occurred. And why only outside the United States. I do know that I have had a large number of views from France. I don’t know why. I have only three acquaintances in France and I’ve lost contact with two of them.