Here belatedly is my fifteenth monthly round-up of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats for the month of November come courtesy of google analytics.
Calming Down
As with September and October, November has been a quiet month.
Indeed, my output for the month of 18 blog posts is the lowest since this blog got going in earnest in September 2010.
In November, I had a total of 4,159 absolute unique visitors to my blog (down marginally on my October total of 4,218 but substantially so on my May record of 6,485). Those 4,159 absolute unique visitors made 4,346 visits to my blog in November (again down marginally on the 4,581 visits total from October and substantially down on the 6,908 record from May). They viewed 10,780 pages (down on my October record of 11,517 pages).
The top 10 stories by direct page views that you've read this past month were:
1. Gary Speed
2. 9am: Swansea City AFC - Premier League!
3. Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst
4. Wembley Bound with Swansea City AFC!
5. The Aberfan Perspective
6. Twitter's Anti-Bullying 'Words Can Hurt' Sensation and how I was bullied in school
7. British Guns on Dublin's Streets
8. Andy Murray Needs to Summon the Rory McIlroy Spirit for Sporting Immortality
9. The Master of Political Cartoon Satire - The Independent's Dave Brown
10. 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film (SPOILER WARNING!)
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 6.
Although a quiet month on the whole, my blog post on the sudden, shock and much publicised death of Welsh football manager Gary Speed made November 27th the second ever busiest day on my blog with 988 visitors in those 24 hours alone. That blog post as a result quickly moved up the charts to become my 5th most read post of all-time out of a total of over 450. My blog post this past month on bullying also proved popular.
Blog Traffic
Of all of the blog visitors this past month, 13.57% were through direct traffic (up from 9.36% in October), 43.49% came from referring sites (up from 35.91 in October) and 42.94% via search engines (down from 54.73% in October).
The bounce rate for the month was 7.34% which again, like with the September and October figures seems remarkably low to me but then who am I who to argue with Google Analytics?! 85.25% were new visits as opposed to 14.75% returning visitors.
An International Blog!
The visitors to my little blog came from 99 countries/territories this month - down from my October tally of 104 and down further on my May record of 123, with a cumulative total of 170 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) 52.1% (+1.2%)
2. United States (No Change) 18.4% (-0.6%)
3. Brazil (No Change) 2.2% (-0.2%)
4. Germany (No Change) 2.1% (-0.1%)
5. Canada (No Change) 2.0% (=)
6. Australia (No Change) 1.8% (-0.1%)
7. Ireland (No Change) 1.4% (=)
8. Holland (+2) 1.3% (+0.1%)
9. Poland (-1) 1.2% (-0.1%)
10. France (-1) 1.2% (=)
After their mamouth leap up the rankings in October, Brazil have consolidated their place in 3rd whilst the only significant change this past month is Holland's move up from 10th to 8th.
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 blog this November.
The Faroe Islands and Benin 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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