On Cursory Hits

As I move to bigger projects, bodytag sees far fewer updates than it used to. However, it recently passed the four-million pageviews mark, so it's about time I came clean.

Despite the presence of many other pieces, all of which took far longer to make, over two million of those pageviews are to cursory. What's mildly boggling about it is that cursory is popular only in Russia, as only one or two non-Russian sites have ever directly linked to it, and 95% of the Russian sites that link to bodytag only link to cursory and not the front page. It's not a fad thing either, as there have been a steady stream of hits from different and unique Russian websites in the four years since cursory went up.

It'd be interesting to see if there were any social/cultural reasons for this.

Also note that I've disabled the 'blogger users only' restriction on the comments. Amazing times.