Ever wondered how you folks spend your time?

For the last month I've been monitoring traffic to this blog day by day. 200 distinct surfers from all over the planet (I swear to God, all continents have paid me a visit except Artic and Antartic) have wondered around the site for a total of twice as many page hits. The counting system I use from RiteCounter offers a few cute stat graphs... like the one above (click it to see sharply).

As we all know this site is a blog like millions of others out there, mainly aimed at folks I know and who know me. Others are also welcome if they think it's not a waste of their time. The vast majority of visitors are those from that 'other' category, I must admit.

Anyways, here's the thing. You see a lot of traffic on Monday and Friday with considerably less in the middle of the week and a bit more over the weekend (Sunday is weak though). Does this make any sense to you? Darn right it does. Here's what I think:

Monday is up because people rather waste productivity and relax a bit after the weekend funtime. Friday is high because nobody does much useful on Fridays looking forward to the weekend... Wednesday is the most productive day of all; in fact people seem to be productive for one and a half day in a total week. Do you think this is a correct interpretation of the stats. You bet!

That reminds me... many 'moms' in this country take off Wednesday pm to care for children (only half day school on Wednesdays). Imagine, here in Belgium, many female employees we let go home in their max productivity day! How clever! Well done Unions! BTW, if you didn't know that, most business dinners and lunches also take place in this country on Wednesday and Thursday evening... which explains also the built up of leisure (surfing) time during office hours from early Thursday to a peak on Friday.

Forgot to mention... all of the above is my own empirical interpretation on the matter. I ain't far from reality though, as far as the 'average Joe' is concerned... workaholics are a different ball-game alltogether... know no weekends... even take late flights to miss no active time from a working day... do email on their Blackberries and smartphones (and some do that on iPhones too) while at the restroom...