... is blowing up! I don't know what's triggered it exactly, but the last few days has seen an explosion in traffic to my blog. Coincidentally, it syncs up with my removing the rating "stars" from the website that used to be attached to each entry. They were *really* slowing down the loading time of the site, so even though I liked them, I had to scratch them off the site. In any case, there's been basically a quadrupling of web visits since I did that, which seems strange to me. Oh, and I also added the Facebook badge at the right at the same time. But that seems equally benign when it comes to traffic. Anyone have any alternative theories? Or ways of understanding? According to my built-in statistics software and to Google Analytics, the traffic is not due to any big blog or something linking here. It's not been a sudden spike in one day, but a gradual (but dramatic) build-up since Thursday.