My blog: Causing the recession.

I sometimes get caught up in the stats that are collected by my web host, the rather inappropriately-named Godaddy.com.

As you can see in the chart of server-requests below, March was the biggest month “since records began”, way back in January 08, in terms of files being requested via my website:

The Y-axis here is the number of individual files that are requested from the server. This approximately translates to (or at least correlates with) ‘visits’ but not quite. Visit numbers recorded as a separate variable, but I don’t have access to historical values. Regardless, I noticed something striking here – this trend is practically the inverse of another source of data I am becoming increasingly obsessed with: the stock market.

To explore this stunning revelation further, I downloaded the weekly Dow Jones closing price from here, and compared it to the weekly number of page requests (not file requests).

Below is the undeniable correlation that exists between the popularity of my blog, and the value of the US stock market:

That’s right America; the more I blog, the poorer you get!