One billion websites and on January 26, 2018…

No one visited this site.

When you look at it that way, though, it seems perfectly reasonable. I don’t visit a billion websites. I hardly look at more than ten. I’m an internet underachiever and even the internet overachievers aren’t going to visit a billion sites. Or a million. Or a thousand.

They’re just going to amazon to buy stuff then going to Facebook to post about the stuff they just bought on amazon.

Or watching cat videos on YouTube.

(I was curious how many sites are out there and learned here that about 75% of all sites are just parked domains or something similar, so the number of actual, active sites is much lower…but still inconceivably high for the average person to consider visiting. If you visited one active website every second, it would take you 2,030 days or 5.5 years to get through all of them. Also your mouse would have exploded from all the clicking.)

Still, I am always a little sad when my site gets no traffic for an entire day. Perhaps a small incentive could help drive traffic. It worked for that singing frog.

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