This is my eleventh monthly round-up of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats for the month of July come courtesy of google analytics.
Calming Down
After the busiest two months on record in May and June, July was a quieter month.
Although my output for the month of 30 blog posts signified an increase from the 25 in June, the viewing figures were significantly lower than my previous bests. In July, I had a total of 4,531 absolute unique visitors to my blog - down from the 5,844 figure in June and my May record of 6,485 but was up on the figures of 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 4,531 absolute unique visitors made 4,832 visits to my blog in July, down from the figure of 6,222 in June, and 6,908 in May but up on the figures of 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). They viewed 6,662 pages, compared to 8,787 in June, 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. The Face of Unimanageable Horror - Anders Behring Breivik
3. Anders Behring Breivik - In His Own Words
4. Andy Murray Needs to Summon the Rory McIlroy Spirit for Sporting Immortality
5. Has Mark Webber Blown It?
6. Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst
7. Lembit Opik Apologises for Mick Bates Slur
8. The Ed Miliband Media Car Crash
9. 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film (SPOILER WARNING!)
10. An Oslo Tragedy
Of the 10, 5 were written this month - the other 5 are popular blog posts written in months past that continue to attract hits. The Norwegian tragedy cast its long shadow over the month as 3 of my top 10 posts were dedicated to the awful events there in recent weeks.
Whilst my Rory McIlroy - A Leap of Faith to Join the Immortals of Golf blog post remained at No.1 for the second month running (and has now become the second most read post of all-time), my Has Mark Webber Blown It? blog post remained in the top 5 for a 9th consecutive month despite having still never made the monthly top grade!
Blog Traffic
Of all of the blog visitors, 17.09% were through direct traffic (up from 15.48% in June), 44.64% came from referring sites (down from 47.07%) and 38.27% via search engines (up from 37.45%).
My top 10 referring/search engine sites for the last month were (with change from June):
1. Google (No Change)
2. Facebook (No Change)
3. Twitter (+1)
4. Blogger.com (-1)
5. Lib Dem Blogs (+1)
6. Lib Dem Voice (+1)
7. rialtocr.blogspot.com (-2)
8. carmarthenplanning.blogspot.com (New Entry)
9. Yahoo (+1)
10. peterblack.blogspot.com (New Entry)
An International Blog!
The visitors to my little blog came from 102 countries/territories this month - down marginally from the 107 total in June and the record of 123 in May, but up on the 94 in April, 88 in March, 85 in February and 68 in January (with a cumulative total of 163 countries/territories having supplied visitors to my blog to date).
The top ten countries to date are as follows (with position change from June & % of total views):
1. United Kingdom (No Change) 49.3% (+1.4%)
2. United States (No Change) 21.1% (-1.1%)
3. Germany (No Change) 2.6% (=)
4. Canada (No Change) 2.3% (-0.1%)
5. Australia (No Change) 2.0% (-0.1%)
6. Ireland (No Change) 1.6% (-0.2%)
7. Brazil (No Change) 1.3% (-0.1%)
8. France (+1) 1.2% (+0.1%)
9. Poland (-1) 1.1% (-0.1%)
10. Holland (No Change) 1.0% (-0.1%)
It has continued to be a very cosmopolitan blog this month and honourable mentions must go in particular to the 8 new countries/territories that have provided its first viewers to my fledgling blog this July.
St Lucia, Suriname, Uzbekistan, New Caledonia, Cape Verde, Papua New Guinea, Cameroon and Cambodia 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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