A Puzzle I Can't Solve

I have run this blog, www.Latestfoto.com, since 2011, as far as I remember, and have posted more than 5000 posts during this period. 

I shared most of my posts on social media, but I am still unable to solve the puzzle of my blog's visitor statistic data.

In the first image, you can see the number of visitors in the last 12 months, and in the second image, from 2011.

The second image clearly shows that in the first few years, there was no visitor traffic on my blog, but there was a significant improvement in visitor numbers after 2019. 

Then there was a drop, followed by an increase, and now there is another drop in visitor numbers.

In the first image, we can see that there was no significant change in visitor numbers, then there was a significant increase in visitors from February, and now it is trending toward a decrease.

I remember that a few months ago, there were approximately 25,000 visitors per month on my blog, but now it has decreased to 2,500 visitors, which is a tenfold decrease. 

I have no idea why this is happening.

I am curious to know why I see these big peaks in data every few days. 

I have noticed similar patterns in the statistics from the Amazon affiliate program. 

The Amazon data also shows big peaks every few days. 

Is this due to visitors coming to my blog or clicking my Amazon affiliate links after a few days? 

And why do they visit after a few days, rather than every day?

This is a puzzle I am still unable to solve. Can you?

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