This is my twelth monthly round-up of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats for the month of August come courtesy of google analytics.
Summer Disruption
The problem this month however, is that I'm not going to give the detailed stats as I have had 'malfunctions' with the google analytics link to my blog.
It is in fairness my fault. During the month, having passed the 100,000 pageviews milestone, I decided to give my blog a make-over and therefore freshened it up with a whole new look and new local links. The problem is that I hadn't realised at the time that so doing disrupted the flow of data through to google analytics. I therefore went 3 whole days in the middle of the month with no data transfer at all until I managed, with great help from Greg Foster, to get the link up-and-running again.
I am wondering whether, now that I've gone full circle with a whole year of blogging, whether I shall give up n the monthly reports. I'll see how I feel this time next month.
So the stats here will be brief as I can not give an accurate, proper monthly report.
What I do know is that having written 32 blog posts this past month, as opposed to 30 in July and 25 in June, the viewing figures have actually been markedly lower because I've been writing more on local issues which don't attract as many 'hits'.
Although not complete because of that mid-month lapse, I am willing to give an indication as to the popularity of the most read blog posts this past month.
So 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. A Gareth Epps Sized Lib Dem Conference Farce
3. Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst
4. Wembley Bound with Swansea City AFC!
5. As the Yemenese Domino Falls, is Syria Next?
6. Lib Dem By-Election WIN
7. Cardigan Street Racing (featuring the 2011 Welsh National Criterium Championship)
8. In Praise of English Test Cricket...
9. 9am: Swansea City AFC - Premier League!
10. Reflections on A-Level Results Day
Of the 10, 5 were written this month - the other 5 are popular blog posts written in months past that continue to attract hits.
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, it is now on the verge of overtaking my 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film film (Spoiler Warning) blog post to become the most read post of all-time.
An International Blog!
I can at least give some concrete data on the countries that have been visiting the site.
The chart below has seen Denmark move into the Top 10 for the first time, whilst Poland has made a marked rise up the rankings. The dual reason for this is that I have seen a lot of extra traffic arrive at the site from these two countries over the past week to visit my Rory McIlroy - A Leap of Faith to Join the Immortals of Golf blog post.
The top ten countries to date are as follows (with position change from July & % of total views):
1. United Kingdom (No Change) 49.6% (+0.3%)
2. United States (No Change) 20.3% (-0.8%)
3. Germany (No Change) 2.4% (-0.2%)
4. Canada (No Change) 2.3% (=)
5. Australia (No Change) 1.9% (-0.1%)
6. Ireland (No Change) 1.5% (-0.1%)
7. Poland (+2) 1.5% (+0.4%)
8. Denmark (New Entry) 1.3%
9. Brazil (-2) 1.2% (-0.1%)
10. France (-2) 1.2% (-0.1%)
It has continued to be a very cosmopolitan blog this month and honourable mentions must go in particular to the 2 new countries/territories that have provided its first viewers to my fledgling blog this August.
Timor-Leste and Aruba have both supplied their first readers to my blog during the past month taking the cumulative total of countries/territories to have supplied visitors to this blog over the past 12 months to 165!
Fair play to them all, and to you all, for putting up with my ramblings!
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