FWIW now has six million page views

It happened yesterday, possibly because a lot of FWIW readers were at home on account of the cold. (For those, like me, who weren't paying attention, courts were closed yesterday due to the subzero temperatures. Courthouses in Markham, Skokie, and Maywood were open, but only as warming centers.)

Anyway, FWIW has now passed six million page views. This is an aggregate figure. FWIW has been around since 2006, and it has always been published on Blogger.com. But Google, Blogger's parent, was not keeping track of page views back then; I'm not sure when it started.

I can tell you that the five million page view mark was reached in early April 2025, roughly 292 days ago. The four million page view milestone was reached on or shortly before May 1, 2023, roughly a thousand days ago.

FWIW reached the million page view mark in August 2015, the two million mark in March 2018, and the three million mark in October 2020.

It took 941 days for FWIW to go from one million to two million page views. It took 10 days longer -- 951 days -- to get from two million to three million. It took 917 days to go from three million to four million. But it only took another 709 days to go from four to five million. And now it has taken only 292 days to go from five to six million. I wish I could get that kind of growth on my investments. I also wish I could claim that this growth is attributable to some sincere growth in interest in our local judiciary in general, or in FWIW in particular.

But, alas.

On my increasingly infrequent trips downtown, I see precious little evidence that suggests that FWIW is better known now that it was in the past. This has always been a very specialized, niche site (at least since I started seriously covering Cook County judicial races in 2008). There are only so many people who might be interested in this topic. Of course, readers could be flocking here because of my crisp, entertaining prose, their limited interest in the comings and goings of our local judiciary notwithstanding....

And then I wake up.

But, however it has happened, I have accumulated six million page views here on FWIW. I'm grateful.