Following on from my first two monthly reports on the usage of this site at the end of September and October, here is my third round of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats come courstesy of google analytics.
A new beginning
After a busy first few months, November has seen me fall into a more regular and stable pattern of blogging on average just over once every other day. I've 19 blogs posts to my name this month - down from the frenetic start of 30 in September and 23 in October.
Here come the stats...
In November, I had 1,024 absolute unique visitors to my blog - up from the 701 in October and 597 in September. The 1,024 visitors visited the blog on 1,396 occasions (up from 1,107 in October) and viewed 1,991 pages (up from 1,711 pages in October). So although I wrote less blog posts this month, those that I have written have attracted greater interest and this is certainly pleasing.
The busiest day of the month on my blog was Thursday 18th November, when I wrote or just after I had written blog posts on being a curious Lib Dem blogger and on a poor no show from Cheryl Gillan at the Institute of Welsh Politics at Aberystwyth University.
The top 10 stories by direct page views that you've read this month were:
1. Vote Wagner to Win (Chris Moyles agrees!)
2. Has Mark Webber Blown It?
3. Facebook - Not all Muslims are Extremists
4. A NUS Protest Backfired
5. It Shouldnt be Nick Cleggs Choice
6. Peter Kay and Freddie Mercury in Concert - a Stunning Combination!
7. Curious Lib Dem Blogger
8. Elizabeth Evans - A Fresh Start for Ceredigion
9. Will Kate & William pay for my Wedding?
10. Martin Bell, Ceredigion's WI and me
I was helped along this month by achieving for the first time, to my great surprise, my first Liberal Democrat Voice 'Top of the Blogs: Golden Dozen' accoldade. This is where the top blog posts read via the libdemblogs aggregator are accumulated in one place each week. The blog post that got me that accolade was A NUS Protest Backfired.
I was also helped by a bemusing interest in my Has Mark Webber Blown It? post - 2 weeks after I wrote it! After the initial interest died down a couple of days after it was published on October 31st, as is usually the case with blog posts, I suddenly found it being read in increasing numbers from November 14th - the day he lost out of the World Championship in the final race. Ever since then, the post has been read by a varying number of readers on a daily basis and continues to do so. A real 'slow burner' of a blog post if ever there was one!
Finally, my Peter Kay and Freddie Mercury in Concert - a Stunning Combination! blog post caught on by my mentioning of Freddie Mercury. I quickly noticed that it had been posted onto a Queen International Fan Club Online chat room and much traffic has come from there since.
So thanks to you all!
Of all of the blog visitors, 15.04% were through direct traffic (up from 12.92%), 61.10% came from referring sites (down from 68.93%) and 23.85% via search engines (up from 18.16%).
My top 10 referring/search engine sites for the last month were (with change from October):
1. Google (+1)
2. Facebook (-1)
3. Lib Dem Blogs (No Change)
4. Lib Dem Voice (+1)
5. Blogger. com (+1)
6. Twitter (-2)
7. Queenmembers.com (New Entry)
8. Mobile Facebook (No Change)
9. Freedom Central (No Change)
10. Peter Black's Blog (-3)
The visitors to my little blog came from 60 countries this month - up from 40 in October and double the 30 in September (with a cumulative total of 76 countries having supplied visitors to my blog to date).
The top ten countries for November were as follows (with position change from September & % of total views):
1. United Kingdom (No Change) 73.7%
2. United States (No Change) 10.5%
3. Canada (No Change) 1.9%
4. Australia (No Change) 1.7%
5. Germany (+2) 1.5%
6. Ireland (-1) 0.9%
7. India (-1) 0.6%
8. Poland (New Entry) 0.5%
9. France (+1) 0.5%
10. Austria (New Entry) 0.5%
Honourable mentions must also go to those countries that have provided its first viewers to my fledgling blog this November. They come from Luxembourg, Trinidad & Tobago, Namibia, Kenya, Albania, Mexico, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Tunisia, Estonia, Romania, Botswana, Isle of Man, Lithuania, Latvia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Guernsey, Republic of Korea, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Hungary, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Ghana, Croatia, Sweden and Finland.
Fair play to them all, and to you all, for putting up with my ramblings!
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