My Internet Stat Porn Monthly Report (7) March

This is my seventh monthly round of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats for the month of March come courtesy of google analytics.

At last, my blog has finally calmed down after a frenetic first 6 months of blogging. After a month-on-month continued growth, March saw the first overall fall back on the month before. It was nevertheless only a mild fall back and it was still an active month on the blog. Having blogged a record 42 times in January and 40 times in February, I was down to just over one a day in March with 33 posts.

So, here come the stats...

But despite a larger drop in blog posts, the viewing figures have remained only slightly lower than my February best. In March, I had a total of 3,764 absolute unique visitors to my blog - down marginally on the 3,926 in February but up from my previous records of 2,370 in January, 1,702 in December, 1,024 in November, 701 in October and 597 in September. The 3,764 visitors made 4,237 visits to my blog (compared to the 4,308 in February, 2,668 in January, 2,180 in December,1,396 in November and 1,107 in October) and viewed 6,121 pages (compared to 6,447 in February, 4,240 in January, 3,435 in December, 1,991 in November and 1,711 pages in October).

The top 10 stories by direct page views that you've read this month were:

1. 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film (SPOILER WARNING!)
2. Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters on North Norfolk Digital Radio! (episode 11)
3. It is with great regret that I must resign
4. Has Mark Webber Blown It?
5. Wales Can Do Better - A Welsh Liberal Democrat Conference Review
6. A Musical Tribute to John Barry OBE (1933-2011)
7. Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst
8. The Aberfan Perspective
9. Comic Relief (1988-2011) - My Best Musical Bits
10. The Pressure of Politics

A typical mix of politics, sport, entertainment, music and the movies then.

My 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film (SPOILER WARNING!) blog post has topped the monthly poll for a 3rd consecutive month but its readership has slowed in recent weeks so I doubt it'll make it 4 months in a row at the top. My Has Mark Webber Blown It? post is still going having made the top 5 of my most read blog posts for a 5th consecutive month despite having never made the top grade. My 'My Sports Personality of the Year - Phil 'The Power' Taylor' post however has fallen outside of the top 10 down at No.11 for the first time since it entered in December. These three are by a country mile my most read blog posts to date. These 'slow-burning' blog posts have really helped my blog stats to keep ticking over nicely. Meanwhile, Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst remains in the top 10 having been No.3 last month. Oddly, my The Aberfan Perspective blog post made a re-entry at No.8 having been my 5th most read blog post back in October!

I was pleasantly surprised to find a blog post of mine taking a Liberal Democrat Voice 'Top of the Blogs: Golden Dozen' accoldade for the third time. This is where the top blog posts read via the libdemblogs aggregator are accumulated in one place each week. This time, the post that made it was my It is with great regret that I must resign post and it made the No.1 spot that week! It was admittedly written with that specific title in mind to pull in the hits - and it clearly worked!

Of all of the blog visitors, 13.76% were through direct traffic (down from 15.71% in February), 51.05% came from referring sites (down from 53.51%) and 35.19% via search engines (up from 30.78%).

My top 10 referring/search engine sites for the last month were (with change from January):

1. Google (No Change)
2. Facebook (No Change)
3. Blogger.com (+1)
4. rialtocr.blogspot.com (+3)
5. Twitter (No Change)
6. Lib Dem Blogs (-3)
7. Lib Dem Voice (-1)
8. Yahoo (+2)
9. wood4thetrees.wordpress.com (New Entry)
10. Iaindale.blogspot (New Entry)

An International Blog!
The visitors to my little blog came from 88 countries this month - up from 85 countries in February and 68 in January (with a cumulative total of 120 countries having supplied visitors to my blog to date).

The top ten countries to date are as follows (with position change from February & % of total views):

1. United Kingdom (No Change) 49.6% (-2.8%)
2. United States (No Change) 15.4% (+0.7%)
3. Canada (No Change) 3.7% (=)
4. Germany (+1) 3.5% (+0.6%)
5. Ireland (-1) 2.8% (-0.5%)
6. Australia (No Change) 2.6% (+0.4%)
7. Thailand (No Change) 1.6% (-0.4%)
8. Poland (No Change) 1.4% (=)
9. Holland (No Change) 1.3% (=)
10. Brazil (No Change) 1.2% (No Change)

The % of viewers to my blog from the UK has continued to fall and has slipped underneath the 50% mark for the first time having been as high as 80% after my first full month last September. It has continued to be a very cosmopolitan blog.

Honourable mentions must also go to those 8 new countries that have provided its first viewers to my fledgling blog this March. Syria, Armenia, Kuwait, Panama, Zambia, Jordan, Niger and Mongolia have all supplied their first readers to my blog during the past month!

Fair play to them all, and to you all, for putting up with my ramblings!