How could my most recent "Most read articles HTML links blog" be on the top 20 list for the last few days?

 I was having problems with the HTML page because a different shade of red in the HTML page showed up and it prevented that link from saving the article. So, I saved what I could because I was only 1/3 of the way through. Later I learned that if I deleted the link that had the strange reddish color different than the ordinary HTML pages that the rest of the blank template would go back to it's normal colors of Green, Black, Red and Blue like a normal HTML programming page. So, this is how this happened. Then later (a couple of days later I finished programming the page and now all the likely top 20 or so articles of the last 7 days are now listed and working as HTML Links.