The new blog rules have not impacted the traffic to the website. The visits are up 26.7 percent over last week and the page views are up 34.3 percent over last month. I was concerned that the requirement for readers to use their real names to post comments might hurt the traffic to the blog. It doesn’t appear to have impacted the readership. YTD – the readership of the blog is up 57.1 percent over last year.
