Recently there were 5,000 page views over a space of 48 hours.
The normal day's viewing is counted new at 6 PM. By morning, about 900 page-views have been logged. By supper time, another 900 page views are the typical amount. I usually see 1800 page-views a day now.
If someone has a good story to share, the page-views go up and stay above normal for a time. The increase of the average page-views has been steady. When I began, 200 per day was typical, and that software showed about 100 returning readers for 200 page-views. I am not sure how many individual readers there are now. Installing software slows down the blog, so I avoid that.
Almost 6,000 posts have been published. The total page-views in year seems to be 500,000 at this time.