I leave my Blogger tab at the Stats section, so when I start the browser that is the first thing I see. A few weeks ago Google announced it was upgrading Blogger. I had the chance to try it out, and I saw that in a few months nearly everyone will be transitioned anyway. I generally like it. It operates more like a mobile app, and I can live with that. As to the statistics, however, I wasn't so pleased.
The nice four-pane Overview is gone. One may gather them piecemeal, and more items are available than before. However, I liked the hour-by-hour detail in the Weekly view of activity. Now it is daily, unless you look only at the past 24 hours.
I primarily look at total volume and the worldwide distribution, particularly when I'm commenting my amusement with spider scanning from Russia or Asia. As it happens, today there was a new spike in the weekly chart that mostly occurred yesterday. Here are the charts for the past week and month:
For reference, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, for the past few years my daily Views were between 30 and 50, except when a spidering operation was hitting the blog 100 times or more daily. The bump after June 8 is likely to be another round of spidering. The Countries charts (7 days and then 30) give me a clue a clue or two:
Not many people even know where Turkmenistan is. The 7 day chart shows it clearly; it is the third country to the northwest of India. That small country was the source of some earlier spidering, and it appears to be the source of the "bump" in views over the past few days.
Interestingly, another section of the Stats usually shows that Chrome is most frequently used, but during the past week and the past day, it has been MSIE, which is how Internet Explorer is reported by Blogger Stats.
There is an option to see even more using Google Analytics, which I haven't delved into. Perhaps there I can see or build a chart showing hourly views over a week or longer, but that a project for another day.
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