This is my fourth monthly round of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats for the month of December come courstesy of google analytics.
A Record Breaking Month
After a busy first few months, I expected to settle down into a calmer pace of blogging this month. As it turns out, it's been my busiest yet. I wrote 38 blog posts this month, double the 19 I wrote in November. It beats my previous high of 30 in September. The bulk of these were from my 'enthusiasm' for the Coronation St 50th anniversary week which elicited much from my keyboard.
So, here come the stats...
In December, I had a record 1,702 absolute unique visitors to my blog - up from the 1,024 record of November, 701 in October and 597 in September. The 1,702 visitors visited the blog on 2,180 occasions (up from 1,396 in November and 1,107 in October) and viewed 3,435 pages (up from 1,991 in November and 1,711 pages in October). So the result of my record busy month of typing has been an unsurprising record busy month of blog visitors.
The busiest day of the month on my blog was Monday 6th December, when I wrote a spoiler blog post in readiness for the carnage that was about to hit Coronation St. Indeed, that blog post was the most read of the 38 that I wrote in December.
The top 10 stories by direct page views that you've read this month were:
1. Coronation St Tram Crash Spoiler
2. Has Mark Webber Blown It?
3. Killer Corries Quotes (No.1) - Ena Sharples
4. We Lib Dems may dislike the Tories, but Labour can *add expletive* right off
5. Wiliams Vs Higgins - Two Snooker Greats
6. Elizabeth Evans - A Fresh Start for Ceredigion
7. Working with the Plaid Cymru Enemy
8. My Sports Personality of Year - Phil Taylor
9. Women lead the Liberal Way in Ceredigion
10. A Homage to Christmas Number Ones
In fact, though that particular Coronation St Tram Crash Spoiler blog post topped my monthly charts, it actually lies second behind my original Has Mark Webber Blown It? blog post in my list of all-time read blog posts.
The bemusing interest in my Has Mark Webber Blown It? post which I mentioned back in my last monthly update, continues! 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 but it has now risen as I've stated to have become the most read blog post that I've written.
Of all of the blog visitors, 13.58% were through direct traffic (down from 15.04% in November), 53.81% came from referring sites (down from 61.10%) and 32.61% via search engines (up from 23.85%).
My top 10 referring/search engine sites for the last month were (with change from November):
1. Google (No Change)
2. Facebook (No Change)
3. Lib Dem Blogs (No Change)
4. Lib Dem Voice (No Change)
5. Blogger. com (No Change)
6. Twitter (No Change)
7. Mobile Facebook (+1)
8. Queenmembers.com (-1)
9. Spoilernews.com (New Entry)
10. Freedom Central (-1)
The visitors to my little blog came from 61 countries this month - up marginally from 60 in November (with a cumulative total of 84 countries having supplied visitors to my blog to date).
The top ten countries for December were as follows (with position change from November & % of total views):
1. United Kingdom (No Change) 73.7%
2. Thailand (New Enry) 3.9%
3. Ireland (+3) 1.9%
4. United States (-2) 9.0%
5. Canada (New Entry) (+2) 1.5%
6. Germany (-1) 0.9%
7. Australia (-3) 0.6%
8. New Zealand (New Entry) 0.5%
9. Poland (New Entry) 0.5%
10. Brazil (New Entry) 0.5%
My Mark Webber post has out of nowhere, illicited a real interest in of all places, Thailand! It supplied the most amount of visitors to my blog of any country behing the UK in December and now stands in 3rd overall, also behind the USA. My Coronation St posts also helped to significantly increase the viewship from Ireland and a mention must also go to New Zealand which has also gone up significantly this past month.
Honourable mentions must also go to those countries that have provided its first viewers to my fledgling blog this December. Martinique, Moldova, Denmark, Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, Dominican Republic, Malta and Luxembourg have all supplied their first readers to my blog during December.
Fair play to them all, and to you all, for putting up with my ramblings!
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