Click is the No. 2 nonsports Daily News blog, No. 7 overall

I spent the better part of a year avoiding all stats having to do with this blog. I didn't want to sully the purity of the blogging experience.

I got over it.

Now I get the stats every day, and I'm happy to say that for the past two days, Click is the No. 7 Los Angeles Daily News blog, No. 2 if you don't count sports blogs. Sports dwarfs everything else we do in an astounding way. The biggies are Scott Wolf's Inside USC, Brian Dohn's Inside UCLA and Rich Hammond's Inside the Kings. Maybe if I renamed this blog Inside Click, it would do better. (Ba-DUM-bump.) No, it would probably make no difference. People love sports.

So what's the No. 1 nonsports blog under the auspices of the Daily News? It's Greg Hernandez's Out in Hollywood, which draws WAY more traffic than Click, by the way. Greg is a tireless, relentless blogger with a unique voice, and he more than deserves all the success he has earned in the blogging world. I don't know how he keeps the pace he has set, just as I don't know how long I'll be able to keep up mine. In any event, it's all good for now. And if blogging is about anything it's now.

But having Click be the No. 2 nonsports blog -- for today anyway -- is good enough for me. I owe a lot to LXer and Distrowatch, which have linked to many and a few key posts, respectively, and brought a whole lot of people over here.

This just in: Click was No. 5 overall on Friday, still No. 2 nonsports (there's no beating Out in Hollywood, that's for sure.)