C) Of course, all of my blog posts are viewed by many more readers than those that go to the specific web page for the post - those who read them on an Genea-Musings archive page, those that read them in an RSS reader, or on a mobile device, and those that receive them via email.
Another measure of popularity or readership might be in the number of comments generated by each post. I don t think that is a reliable measure of popularity because of the proliferation of RSS reader usage, email usage, and mobile device usage, each of which require one or more click throughs to get to the comment box. In addition, there are thousands of spam comments in the list (now Google doesn t block them and i m too lazy to do it every day).