My Surprising Llama 3.1 8B Post Stats

Back in July, I made a post here in Medium on running Llama 3.1 8B locally not long after the model dropped. It is my most viewed and most read post by between 1 and 2 orders of magnitude based on my poor general reach at this writing. It was surely the timeliness and high interest in all things Llama 3.1 at that moment. I looked at the stats and they were enlightening on the distribution of referrals. Google is still king by a wide margin and my LinkedIn effort produced almost nothing.

Here are the stats:

The whole set was surprising to me. I made a post about this article only to LinkedIn so I was surprised at only one linkedin.com referral. I thought I had clicked on it more times than that. :-) It kind of makes me sad. Wow, Google. Not sure what I did to show up in some search results but I wish I did that more often. 146 in email, IM and direct. YCombinator… really. I’m honored. Gemini.google.com — interesting. Twitter — 2; very surprising as I didn’t post there and haven’t used Xitter in about a year for what would be obvious reasons for some people. Getliner.com — I don’t even know what that is. Sorry getliner.com. Identosphere.net — mildly surprised. I get picked up in the blog aggregator as I have in the past posted more reliably on digital identity and verifiable credentials.