Comment by acessoproibido
4 days ago
Maybe a dumb question but why?
Im a firm believer that data collected that doesnt have a clear action associated with it is meaningless - and i couldnt think of an action i would take if my traffic goes up or down on my personal blog - but tbh i mainly blog for myself not really to build an audience, so our objectives might differ
It is kind of fun even if it serves no purpose. Like those end of year recaps by various services, "oh shit I played that much Hades?"
There are some actions you can take. For example, when my traffic plummeted, I saw through my logs that search engines were trying to access my search page with questionable queries. That's when I realized I became a spam vector. I gave a better rundown through the link I shared.
Same reason why people have personal projects and share them on GitHub, it's fun to see people using / starring / interacting with your project / blog.