An incongruity
These screen captures were taken at the same time.
First :

Blogshpere referral log
Then:

Sitemeter Summary
I have been watching this incongruity for a couple of weeks now and as yet have only one explanation: The referrals I get from a Google image search do not regiser with sitemeter when the page is loaded into a frame on Google. I have been getting tons of these referrals of late:

Google Image Referrals
The other day my referral log had a couple hundred entries for the day and sitemeter reported about 50 visits. Go figure!
The most popular google image searches are ‘punishment’ and ‘corporal punishment’, followed closely by whatever gruesome crime du jour is current.
Go figure!
By popular demand…

Corporal punishment we can live with