For every high there has to be a low. Yin and Yang, ebb and flow. Yesterday I was on the front page of WordPress.com and today I’m not.

The trouble with a massive spike on a blog’s statistics chart is that it makes all the tiny gains in readership look pathetic. That slow increase in readership is levelled out to what looks like a flat line at virtual zero!

Maybe the thing to do is not look at my stats for a couple of weeks until the spike has been pushed off the graph and things settle down to normality? But, for a stats junkie, that would mean going cold turkey!

If I put a direct link in my tool bar to a new page so I don’t have to go through my dashboard then I’d not have to see the graph. Actually I can turn the graph off in Dashboard if I like, then I have to make a conscious decision to look at it – Hmmm! How strong willed am I?

Then I’d have to cut back on viewing all my other stats. Maybe WordPress could be a start – Hi, My name is Shoo Rayner and I’m webstats addict.