My "top posts" of 2024 prove only that bots rule Blogger Views stats

According to the data provided, the most-viewed post of 2024, with c 259,000 views, was this: which is a short and obscurely titled musing from 2015 that attracted no comments. Presumably the bots liked it for some unknowable bot-reason...

The other highest ranked posts are more plausible, being on socio-political (i.e. not religious/ philosophical) themes, and having attracted some comments - but the number of total views (i.e. for the whole blog, not any particular post) last year was 1,780,000. 

This would average about 4,500 views per day - which seems too high to be real, although maybe a few people re-viewing a selection of the c 8,000 old posts might be able to reach that level (one or two views of an old post here, half a dozen views there, multiplied by a few hundred old posts viewed that day...?). 

And people looking at old posts would be unlikely to comment, so I would not know about it. 

I have no idea what the real numbers of views by human beings of the blog as a whole would be for each day but modal average day's blog post accumulate between 200-500 views - mostly within the first couple of days. 

But the fact that the first of October last year is listed as the peak day, having 316,790 views (!) must surely be those bots at work again, somewhere in the backlog of old posts - rather than sudden massive enthusiasm for the post of that day.