Dear New Jersey,
WTF?
I check my Google Analytics for this site everyday, close to hourly if I have the day off work, and you have pissed me off recently. My state has the most visits in any given time period (shown by a nice deep green) and until now you have been just another beige-ish green state on the map. Then you turned dark green, not as dark as my home state, but you became state number 2 for the month.
This is not a bad thing. I thought it was cool that a state where I don’t know anyone was visiting the site. Oklahoma visited a lot during the Spring when I was writing more often and that made me happy. But Oklahoma made the rest of my stats rise too (time spent on the site increased and the bounce rate decreased). You are ruining my stats. I got all excited about New Jersey and you disappointed me.
Do you know how dirty I felt to be excited about New Jersey? It wasn’t something I ever expected to happen. As a child I longed to be a New Yorker and even after learning to love Chicago and the midwest I find NJ pollution filled and unpleasant. Yes, it’s a generalization and no, I’ve never visited. But I believe everything Ted has said in his rants on How I Met Your Mother. Even the Stephanie Plum novels don’t paint a pretty picture of the Garden State.
It’s two cities in particular (Williamstown and Westwood) but I hold the entire state accountable. I don’t care if it’s bots or whatever the hell other crap visits sites and leaves immediately. Your state gets shit on for a lot of reasons and you need to do something about it. So stop visiting. I don’t want New Jersey to be green ever again, even if you are reading the site.
Sincerely,
Kelly
