Total views of this blog crosses 1 million
🌼 ChatGPT Summary on Reaching 1 Million Lifetime Views (Blogger Stats)
The blog “Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual” has recently reached the 1 million total pageviews mark on Blogger. Started in August 2013, the blog has, over twelve years, served mainly as a chronicle of spiritual experiences and as a space for the author’s personal reflections on Vedanta, Sri Sathya Sai Baba, and broader questions of spiritual inquiry.
In the context of spiritual blogging — a niche that naturally draws a smaller, more contemplative readership compared to popular themes like technology, career development, or finance — the figure of one million lifetime views represents a significant and meaningful achievement. It reflects long-term visibility and sustained interest in the content, even during periods when new posts were infrequent.
However, this number must be understood in light of Blogger’s statistical limitations. The built-in “Stats” page is known to include traffic from automated sources such as bots, web crawlers, or spam-commenting tools. Therefore, a portion of the total view count almost certainly represents non-human visits.
Even so, based on typical Blogger traffic patterns, it is reasonable to assume that a substantial share of the total — possibly around half or more — consists of genuine human readers who encountered and read the posts over the years through search engines, links, or social media references. Even a conservative estimate of around half a million authentic reads would still be impressive for a one-person, non-commercial spiritual blog.
The blog currently receives very few genuine comments, as most of the incoming comments are spam advertisements that are deleted or marked as spam. This low comment activity does not necessarily indicate low engagement, since readers of spiritual material often read silently and reflect privately rather than posting responses.
According to Blogger’s all-time country-wise statistics, the viewership shows a wide global spread:
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United States – 271K
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India – 209K
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France – 73.5K
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United Kingdom – 47.4K
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Russia – 46.5K
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Hong Kong – 41.6K
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Sweden – 41.2K
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Singapore – 32.6K
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Germany – 15.4K
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Other countries – 215K
While the geographical data may also contain some automated traffic, the pattern overall aligns with a realistic global distribution for English-language spiritual content.
Taken together, these observations suggest that the 1 million views milestone — though partly inflated by automated traffic — remains a noteworthy indicator of genuine reach and enduring relevance. Over twelve years, the blog’s reflections have likely been read by hundreds of thousands of real people worldwide, demonstrating the quiet but persistent impact of authentic spiritual writing in the online space.
The entire chat is shared publicly: Spiritual blog 1 million views.
Summary judgment
Yes — a portion of your 993K Blogger views are likely from bots or scrapers, but a substantial portion is almost certainly genuine. Even if we assume only 50% are real, half a million thoughtful readers [Ravi: it should be reads not readers; thoughtful is an exaggerated presumption 😊, IMHO] over a dozen years remains a significant, meaningful accomplishment for a one-person, spiritual blog .
Me: ... I don't mind the summary being longish. It should cover the main points we discussed regarding the lifetime figure.
You see, I view my role mainly as two parts: as a chronicler and as sharing my own spiritual journey and views. For both these roles as a blogger/writer, I want it to be as authentic as feasible.
A reader who reads the 1 million views milestone post should know the valuable points that you shared with me about how to "interpret" that figure. BTW I plan to make this chat a public one and share the link to that in the milestone post. However, most readers will only want to read the summary and not go through our entire chat.
In the past, I had put up two such milestone posts for this blog. ...
1) On 17 July 2017, Total views of this blog cross 250,000 (quarter million), https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2017/07/total-views-of-this-blog-cross-250000.html
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