This is my fourteenth monthly round-up of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats for the month of October come courtesy of google analytics.
Calming Down
As with September, October has been a relatively quiet month.
My output for the month of 20 blog posts is my lowest since last November when I blogged 19 times and one less than my total for last month.
In September, I had a total of 4,218 absolute unique visitors to my blog (up on my September total of 3,636 but down on my May record of 6,485). Those 4,218 absolute unique visitors made 4,581 visits to my blog in October (up on the 3,859 total from September but down on the 6,908 record from May). They did however view 11,517 pages has eclipsed the previous best in May of 9,738 pageviews.
The top 10 stories by direct page views that you've read this month were:
1. The longest headed goal in footballing history?! Arise, Jone Samuelson!
2. Wembley Bound with Swansea City AFC!
3. 9am: Swansea City AFC - Premier League!
4. Brian Blessed, Chancellor of Cambridge University?!
5. Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst
6. Rory McIlroy - A Leap of Faith to Join the Immortals of Golf
7. Happy 65th Birthday Freddie Mercury
8. 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film (SPOILER WARNING!)
9. British Guns on Dublin's Streets
10. 3 Ceredigion County Councillors admit their £12,000 expenses errors
Of the 10, only 2 were written this month - the other 8 are popular blog posts written in months past that continue to attract hits. The 2 that I wrote this month came in at No.1 and 10.
After 4 months at the top, my Rory McIlroy - A Leap of Faith to Join the Immortals of Golf blog post fell down to No.6 and was replaced by The longest headed goal in footballing history?! Arise, Jone Samuelson! blog post which, thanks to my Brazilian readership, has instantly become my 5th most read post of all-time!
Blog Traffic
Of all of the blog visitors this past month, 9.36% were through direct traffic (down from 12.52% in September), 35.91% came from referring sites (up from 25.92% in September) and 54.73% via search engines (down from 61.56% in September).
The bounce rate for the month was 8.40% which again, like with the September figures seems remarkably low to me but then who am I who to argue with Google Analytics?! 80.24% were new visits as opposed to 19.76% returning visitors.
An International Blog!
The visitors to my little blog came from 104 countries/territories this month - up from my September tally of 98 but down on May record of 123, with a cumulative total of 168 countries/territories having supplied visitors to my blog to date.
The top ten countries to date are as follows (with position change from October & % of total views):
1. United Kingdom (No Change) 50.9% (=)
2. United States (No Change) 19.0% (-0.7%)
3. Brazil (+7) 2.4% (+1.2%)
4. Germany (-1) 2.2% (-0.1%)
5. Canada (-1) 2.0% (-0.2%)
6. Australia (-1) 1.8% (=)
7. Ireland (-1) 1.4% (-0.1%)
8. Poland (-1) 1.3% (-0.1%)
9. France (+1) 1.2% (=)
=10. Denmark (-1) 1.2% (-0.1%)
=10. Holland (New Entry) 1.2%
In possibly the greatest shake-up up of my monthly top 10 since I began blogging, my Brazilian readership doubled in the space of just a few weeks as some 700 or so viewed my The longest headed goal in footballing history?! Arise, Jone Samuelson! blog post. I know Brazilians are crazy about football, but that really is crazy! As a result, Brazil shot up from 10th in my all-time list up to 3rd. Wow!
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 has provided its first viewers to my blog this October.
Kazakstan and Angola have both supplied its first reader 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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