My Internet Stat Porn Monthly Report (8) April

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

Despite a slight reduction in blogging this month, April has nevertheless been by most read month to date.

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. Now in April, I blogged 30 times and yet, my stats were the best yet.

Despite the slight drop in blog posts, the viewing figures have broken a number of my records to date. In April, I had a total of 3,971 absolute unique visitors to my blog - up on the total of 3,764 in March, beating my previous best of 3,926 in February, and substantially up from 2,370 in January, 1,702 in December, 1,024 in November, 701 in October and 597 in September. The 3,971 visitors made 4,335 visits to my blog in April (compared to the 4,237 in March, my previous record of 4,308 in February, 2,668 in January, 2,180 in December,1,396 in November and 1,107 in October) and viewed 6,239 pages (compared to 6,121 pages in March, a still record of 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. Has Mark Webber Blown It?
3. Will Kate and William Pay for My Wedding?
4. The Aberfan Perspective
5. Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst
6. The Deputy Prime Minister - Putting Ceredigion on the Map
7. A Thought-Provoking 80th Birthday Poem
8. Apology to Karen and Richard Carpenter
9. Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters on North Norfolk Digital Radio! (episode 11)
10. My Sport Personality of the Year - Phil 'The Power' Taylor

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

Of the 10, only 1 was written this month - the other 9 are popular blog posts written in months past that continue to attract hits.

Against my expectations, My 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film (SPOILER WARNING!) blog post has topped the monthly poll for a 4th consecutive month. My Has Mark Webber Blown It? post continues to go strong (every time there's a Grand Prix predictably!) going back up to No.2 and making the top 5 for the 6th consecutive month despite having never made the top grade.

Meanwhile, my Will Kate and William Pay for My Wedding? blog post of last November shot in at No.3 due in large part to to the Royal Wedding last week. My The Aberfan Perspective post also continues to go from a renewed strength to strength despite being written last October and was my 4th most read post in April. Most incredibly, in at No.7 was my A Thought-Provoking 80th Birthday Poem which has come from nowhere to make my Top 10 despite having been written on September 10th!

The only blog post written this month to make the grade was of Nick Clegg's visit to Ceredigion on the campaign trail in The Deputy Prime Minister - Putting Ceredigion on the Map.

Of all of the blog visitors, 12.18% were through direct traffic (down from 13.76% in March), 43.21% came from referring sites (down from 51.05%) and 44.61% via search engines (up from 35.19%).

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

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

An International Blog!
The visitors to my little blog came from 94 countries/territories this month - up from 88 in March, 85 in February and 68 in January (with a cumulative total of 129 countries/territories having supplied visitors to my blog to date).

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

1. United Kingdom (No Change) 50.2% (+0.6%)
2. United States (No Change) 16.2% (+0.8%)
3. Germany (+1) 3.3% (-0.2%)
4. Canada  (-1) 3.2% (-0.5%)
5. Ireland (No Change) 2.4% (-0.4%)
6. Australia (No Change) 2.4% (-0.2%)
7. Poland (+1) 1.4% (+0.4%)
8. Brazil (+2) 1.3% (+0.1%)
9. Thailand (-2) 1.3% (-0.3%)
10. Holland (-1) 1.3% (=)

It has continued to be a very cosmopolitan blog.

Honourable mentions must also go to those 9 new countries/territories that have provided its first viewers to my fledgling blog this April. Lybia, Iran, El Salvador, Barbados, China, the Aland Islands, Guadeloupe, Senegal and Bermuda 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!