This is my tenth monthly round-up of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats for the month of June come courtesy of google analytics.
Another Busy Month
After the record shattering antics of May, June was a quieter month, albeit only slightly.
Although my output for the month of 25 blog posts was the lowest monthly total since last October, I still reached near parity with the record-breaking viewing figures from May.
It was the exploits of Rory McIlroy at the US Open that meant that I experienced on 20th June, the second ever busiest day on my blog. The Rory McIlroy - A Leap of Faith to Join the Immortals of Golf blog post which I wrote back in April shot up as a result to become the 3rd most read blog post that I've written of all-time.
Because of that one blog post in particular, the viewing figures for the month were impressive. In June I had a total of 5,844 absolute unique visitors to my blog, down only marginally from my May record of 6,485 and up on 3,971 in April, 3,764 in March, 3,926 in February, 2,370 in January, 1,702 in December, 1,024 in November, 701 in October and 597 in September.
The 5,844 visitors made 6,222 visits to my blog in June, again only marginally down on the May figure of 6,908 (compared to 4,335 in April, 4,237 in March, 4,308 in February, 2,668 in January, 2,180 in December,1,396 in November and 1,107 in October) and viewed 8,787 pages (compared to 9,738 pages in May, 6,239 in April, 6,121 in March, 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. Rory McIlroy - A Leap of Faith to Join the Immortals of Golf
2. Has Mark Webber Blown It?
3. Wembley Bound with Swansea City AFC
4. 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film (SPOILER WARNING!)
5. Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst
6. Terry Pratchet: Choosing to Die
7. Phillip Schofield is in the Priory?
8. As the Yemenese Domino Falls, is Syria next?
9. Dear Lembit Opik, With All Due Respect, Your Opinion Doesn't Matter Here Anymore.
10. A Service in Memory of Andrew Reeves
Of the 10, 4 were written this month - the other 6 are popular blog posts written in months past that continue to attract hits. It was a rather solemn month as my popular blog posts ranged from Andrew Reeves' untimely early death and also the moving Terry Pratchet documentary on assisted dying. There were lighter moments as well however as a Phillip Schofield wheeze on Twitter caught the eye.
My Has Mark Webber Blown It? blog post remained at No.2 and thus making the top 5 for the 8th consecutive month despite having still never made the monthly top grade!
Blog Traffic
Of all of the blog visitors, 15.48% were through direct traffic (up from 14.24% in May), 47.07% came from referring sites (down from 50.16%) and 37.45% via search engines (up from 35.60%).
My top 10 referring/search engine sites for the last month were (with change from May):
1. Google (No Change)
2. Facebook (No Change)
3. Blogger.com (+1)
4. Twitter (-1)
5. rialtocr.blogspot.com (+2)
6. Lib Dem Blogs (-1)
7. Lib Dem Voice (-1)
8. aol.com (No Change)
9. liberalengland.blogspot.com (+1)
10. Yahoo (New Entry)
An International Blog!
The visitors to my little blog came from 107 countries/territories this month - down marginally from the 123 record of May, but on the 94 in April, 88 in March, 85 in February and 68 in January (with a cumulative total of 155 countries/territories having supplied visitors to my blog to date).
The top ten countries to date are as follows (with position change from May & % of total views):
1. United Kingdom (No Change) 47.9% (-0.7%)
2. United States (No Change) 22.2% (+2.6%)
3. Germany (No Change) 2.6% (-0.4%)
4. Canada (No Change) 2.5% (-0.3%)
5. Australia (No Change) 2.1% (-0.2%)
6. Ireland (No Change) 1.8% (-0.2%)
7. Brazil (+2) 1.4% (+0.2%)
8. Poland (-1) 1.2% (-0.2%)
9. France (+1) 1.1% (+0.1%)
10. Holland (-2) 1.1% (-0.1%)
It has continued to be a very cosmopolitan blog this month and honourable mentions must go in particular to the 6 new countries/territories that have provided its first viewers to my fledgling blog this June.
Greenland, the British Virgin Islands, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Bolivia and Laos 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!
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