My Thoughts about DotPH (as part of the Blogger program)

I was going around the site’s settings. I came upon “site traffic.” Does
this mean that I would get to see the number of people visiting my site?
That’s really great! It has a summary of the number of people visiting the
site per hour or per day. Everything’s recorded. It gives me a feel of more
or less how many are visiting my site. When I see that the numbers are going
up, I feel good because I know more people are able to appreciate my photos.

Moreover, I really like the count in the number of clicks on the albums in
the gallery. This gives me an idea of how many visits them and which albums
are visited more. I love this feature because the more clicks there are to
my photos, the more valued they are for me. The date when the album was
created or the count reset is also useful because I am now able to compute
the average number of visits per day for this or so album.

Even per photo, viewers are able to comment on the individual photos.
Before, I had a hard time checking on the comments because I had to go to
each album to see if anyone placed one. But now, there is a space in the
sidebar that contains the links for the latest comments on my photos. This
has made the comment reading easier for me.

Why is this important to me? I am a photographer whose joy comes from
people’s appreciation of my works. The more the number of hits, the more
appreciated I feel, the more motivated I am to take more photos. Comments
imply that people care and they want you to improve. From the site traffic
to the count of hits per album to the comments, I am very happy about how
these contribute to my vision.