@sir who is to say that that's a bad thing. Knowing that people read your articles, or visit your website can provide serious motivation.

write.as has a view count for my articles. I don't particularly care about what that number is, but it is nice when it gets over a thousand or so... I wouldn't say that I'm spying on anyone by checking this. That could be like saying knowing how many views a video has is spying. To me, it isn't.