When check­ing my stats for the last week, I noticed a spike in the num­ber of vis­it­ors on Fri­day. My daily unique vis­its has been slowly grow­ing to an aver­age of 800 to 1000 per day. But Fri­day saw a record break­ing (for me) 1556 visitors!

I looked through the logs to see if I could see a pat­tern and noticed lots of refer­rals from this story at Google Blo­go­scoped.

Accord­ing to Tech­nor­ati, this [zed1.com] is cur­rently the world’s most pop­u­lar blog.

Rather strangely, Phil­ipp Lenssen there poin­ted his link at my ter­ribly dull main site index, rather than this blog which Tech­nor­ati indexes.

Being one of the links on a default WordPress install­a­tion means that there are auto­mat­ic­ally thou­sands of links into my blog. But Tech­nor­ati removed the WordPress side­bar folks back in Octo­ber 2004. I can only think that they must have been mak­ing some kind of adjust­ment and acci­dent­ally enabled the WP side­bar folks for a short while.

I remem­ber that someone had men­tioned it Wow, you’re actu­ally the Tech­nor­ati #1 blog on Fri­day. But at the time I only looked at my Tech­nor­ati pro­file. I saw I was indeed ‘Tech­nor­ati Rank: 1′, but within a short time that had changed to ‘Tech­nor­ati Rank: 0′. Unfor­tu­nately, I didn’t think to look at the top 100 list, oth­er­wise I might have got a screenshot.

With any luck some of those extra vis­it­ors might come back. I know I’ve had a fair bit of activ­ity on my theme pages this week­end. Maybe it’s related.