fifteen million

15000000: Sometime this evening, probably around eight o'clock, diamond geezer will receive its fifteen millionth visitor. More accurately it'll be the fifteen millionth time that an archaic stats package has registered a unique visit, which very much isn't the same thing, but I think still very much worth celebrating. Fifteen million visits is an astonishing total - the equivalent of everyone in the Netherlands reading my blog once. But viewed another way it's not much - on average three busy tube trains of readers a day. What I do know is that my audience has been coming faster. The first million took five and a half years. The last million's taken eleven months. 0Sept 2002 1000000 April 2008 5½ years 2000000Jan 20112¾ years 3000000Oct 20121¾ years 4000000Apr 201418 months 5000000Aug 201517 months 6000000Dec 201615 months 7000000Feb 201814 months 8000000Apr 201914 months 9000000Jun 202014 months 10000000Jul 202114 months 11000000Aug 202213 months 12000000Aug 202312 months…