Checking stats can be a HUGE time waster. I know this because I was once inflicted with the stats bug. Back when I first started out, I was crazy about stats. I analyzed them like crazy (still tend to), but more importantly I checked back again and again to see if there were any changes.
 
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Stats
Monthly Unique Visitors: 6,406 Unique Visitors
Old numbers: 10,708 Unique Visitors
RSS: 123 readers
Old numbers: 106 readers
Technorati Rank: 56,385
Old rank: 45,762
Alexa Rank: 191,934
Old rank: 232,526
Monthly Revenue for this blog: $187.86
Ad and review sales: $75
Affiliate commission: $112.86
 
Traffic and RSS
As you can see our unique visitors dropped over 4,000 this month. This is because I cut [...]