Abq Jew ® Blog: A Milestone: 1 Million Page Views

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

A Milestone: 1 Million Page Views

To Life! To Life! L'Chaim! Sometime in the morning of Saturday, October 10, 2020 (10/10/2020) - as we Children of Israel were observing (Prayer for Rain! Yizkor!) the mystery holiday of Shemini Atzeret and preparing for the virtual celebration of Simchat Torah in the midst of this evil Covid-19 pandemic - this Abq Jew Blog achieved

1,000,000 = 1 Million
One Million All Time Page Views

We achieved 900,000 All Time Page Views
on May 5, 2020 - just 5 months ago.
That's 630 Page Views per Day. Give or take.

And 1,253 published blog posts.

Plus 4,200 Facebook Likes and 3,300 Twitter Followers.

Thank you!

Abq Jew published his first blog post on September 19, 2010. Ten years and 3 weeks later (3,675 days), this Abq Jew Blog achieved 1,000,000 (1 Million) Page Views. That's about 273 Page Views per Day, averaged over 10 years.

To break it down even further (as Abq Jew is delighted to do), this Abq Jew Blog took about

Four years and 2 weeks to achieve its first 250,000 Page Views on October 1, 2014. That's about 170 Page Views per day.
Two years and 2½ months to achieve its second 250,000 Page Views on December 17, 2016. That's about 309 Page Views per day.
Two years to achieve its third 250,000 Page Views on December 14, 2018. That's about 340 Page Views per day.
One year and 10 months to achieve its fourth 250,000 Page Views on October 10, 2020. That's about 375 Page Views per day.

1,000,000, according to many sources, is a full million.
During Abq Jew's entire 30+ years as a technical writer,
probably no more than 36,000 (SWAG*)
ever read what he wrote - manuals, guides,
online help, training documents, procedures.

Therefore: 1M in 10 years is a big deal.
* SWAG = Scientific Wild Ass Guess

But there's more to it than that.

Old King Cole was a merry old soul

And a merry old soul was he;

He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl

And he called for his fiddlers three.

Looks pretty simple, eh what? But, in its original form, this well-known nursery rhyme is awfully redundant and terribly repetitious. Let's see if we can write it more, shall we say, technically.

Old King Cole was a merry old soul.
He called for his:

Pipe
Bowl
Three (3) fiddlers

Now isn't that better? Try reading this version to your toddler! The redundancy and repetition have been eliminated, and only the pertinent facts are presented - clearly and unambiguously. It's even got a bullet list!

Technically,

that's how Abq Jew wrote,

for 30+ award-winning years,

before moving to Albuquerque

and becoming Abq Jew.

So, Abq Jew queries: How do you know good technical writing when you see it? Among other things (like, say, accuracy),

When technical writing is good,

you can't tell who wrote it.

Whereas, with more creative styles -

Creative writing can't be good

if you can't tell who wrote it.

After 30+ years of writing (and editing, and publishing) technically, it is an honor and a privilege to be able to write - for 10+ years - creatively.

For which Abq Jew must say to you, his loyal readers -