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Thursday and the Numbers That Are Really About Something Else

Malix Blog Statistics for this week tell a story that is really about people.

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This week’s Malix Blog Statistics tell a story that is really about people. About which posts stayed with readers, which topics touched something deeper, and which stories made people stop for a moment.

This Week’s Malix Blog Statistics

Views: 750

Visitors: approximately 250

Top traffic source: Facebook

Mobile users: 41%

Desktop users: 56%

This means that about half of my readers are still sitting at a computer when they read my posts, which is quite unusual these days. It often suggests that people are staying longer and actually reading the full text.

Malix Blog Statistics Show What Readers Choose

🥇 My Aunt and the Lavender

🥈 The Day of the 60th Birthday Celebration

🥉 Everyday Life, ADHD and Presence

Followed by:

What Do the Malix Blog Statistics Really Tell Us?

Personal Memories Matter

”My Aunt and the Lavender” is still at the top.

That is not particularly surprising.

The post is not really about lavender.

It is about love, memories, roots, and the people who leave lasting footprints in our lives.

Stories like that often touch readers more deeply than ordinary descriptions of daily life.

Family and Everyday Life Matter

Both the birthday celebration post and the ADHD post continue to perform well.

It shows something I see again and again on Malix.

Readers do not come only for ADHD.

They do not come only for recipes. In fact, recipes are not what most people read here.

They do not come only for the motorhome. I might have been a little disappointed if this had been a dedicated motorhome blog.

This week’s Malix Blog Statistics tell a story about people more than anything else.

Where Do Readers Come From?

Top 5 Countries

  • Sweden – 93
  • United States – 69
  • Hong Kong – 6
  • Belgium – 6
  • Singapore – 5

It is still fascinating to see how many international visitors I receive.

The English versions make a difference. Even though traffic from the United States has decreased compared to earlier periods when it often topped the list, it is still remarkably high.

Some of it may be bot traffic, but when I look more closely, bots usually do not click through to several different posts.

The numbers may not always be huge, but they open doors that otherwise would have remained closed.

Traffic Sources

Facebook continues to dominate.

  • Facebook
  • WordPress Reader
  • Google Search

We see the same pattern as in previous weeks.

Facebook is still the engine behind most of the traffic.

Google is beginning to show signs of growth, but it remains relatively small.

Google grows slowly.

Facebook delivers faster responses.

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Threads
  • Instagram

Threads continues to send small signals.

Not much yet, but enough to make it worthwhile to keep sharing there.

What I See in the Malix Blog Statistics

When I look at the Malix Blog Statistics together with my recent posts, I notice something interesting.

Many of my most-read posts this spring have been about:

  • family
  • memories
  • ADHD
  • everyday moments
  • people who have mattered

Less focus on perfect advice. Perhaps because I rarely feel that I have all the answers.

More focus on human stories. That is simply what interests me most as a writer.

That seems to be where readers find a sense of belonging.

Perhaps it is because we are not the same people, but we share the same longing to find our way home to ourselves.

A Small Moment From My Week

This morning the water temperature was 18.4°C.

When my swimming sisters arrived at the lake, I had already washed my hair.

When they saw that I had done it, one of them laughed and said:

— No, I’ll wait a little longer. It’s still too cold.

But for me, the time had come.

So there I stood in the lake, washing both my hair and my body. Somewhere in that moment, summer became complete.

It is strange how such small things can mean so much.

For someone else, it is just washing their hair.

For me, it is a sign that the season has truly arrived.

Perhaps that is why I love my morning swims so much. They are rarely just about swimming.

They are about being exactly where I am, in that moment, and feeling life a little more clearly.

Conclusion from This Week’s Malix Blog Statistics

I have continued publishing consistently.

I have continued swimming.

I have continued sharing everyday life.

And it shows.

Not as viral numbers.

But as something else.

People come back.

That is often a stronger sign than a temporary spike in traffic.

This week’s Malix Blog Statistics show that readers continue to return to personal stories.

AHA – Between the Lines

What seems to touch readers the most right now are the stories about people I have loved, people I have met, and the marks they have left behind.

When I write about lavender, ADHD, or a birthday celebration, it is really about something larger: relationships, presence, and what truly matters.

And perhaps that is what makes this blog mine.

I have realised that I am relationship-oriented. Relationships are at the heart of almost everything for me.

Not only relationships with the people who are here today, but also with those who came before, those who left their mark, and those I miss.

Perhaps that is why a lavender plant becomes a story about my aunt.

Perhaps that is why a morning swim becomes a story about community.

Perhaps that is why ADHD, for me, is rarely about diagnoses and more about how we meet one another.

I rarely write about things.

I write about people through things.

And perhaps that is where readers recognise something of themselves.

I do not think people come here primarily to read about lavender, ADHD, motorhomes, or morning swims.

I think they come here to meet a person who is trying to understand life out loud—and perhaps understand something about their own life along the way.

We are not the same people.

We do not carry the same stories.

But perhaps we share the same longing: to find our way home to ourselves and to our relationships with others.

If my writing can help someone feel a little less alone in that longing, then it has already done more than I could ever have hoped for.


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Yesterday has already come to rest in history, and tomorrow waits further ahead. But right now – this is where life happens.


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