Extreme Tracking ...

Really is a little flaky around the edges. The service seems to go up and down like a navvy's pick.

A small example.

Last week my usual weekday traffic of around 280-odd lost souls (you know who you are) took a drop on Wednesday to 200 (link only valid for a week or so).

It took another hit on Saturday night and Sunday. Sunday eve I'd only had 90 visitors - and thirty of those had been in the previous hour.

Maybe I was posting rubbish those days.

But the funny thing is that (allowing for his marginally larger readership) exactly the same thing happened to Andrew Sullivan.