Here is my seventeenth monthly round-up of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats for the month of January come courtesy of google analytics.
A Calm Month
In one way, January was a busy month, in another, it was not.
My output for the month of 15 blog posts was my lowest ever and indeed was less than half of the 33 written in December. Despite this, my January total viewing figures were nevertheless actually up on the previous month.
In January, I had a total of 3,019 absolute unique visitors to my blog (up on my December total of 2,753 though down on my May record of 6,485). Those 3,019 absolute unique visitors made 3,215 visits to my blog in January (again up on the 2,954 total from December though again down on the 6,908 record from May). They viewed 7,499 pages (marginally up on the December total of 7,310 pages but down on the the October record of 11,517 pages).
The top 10 stories by direct page views that you've read this past month were:
1. Andy Murray Needs to Summon the Rory McIlroy Spirit for Sporting Immortality
2. Why Alex Salmond rightly holds the Ace in the Unionist Pack
3. Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst
4. 9am: Swansea City AFC - Premier League!
5. On Becoming Engaged!
6. The Aberfan Perspective
7. 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film (SPOILER WARNING!)
8. Nos Da i 'Denz' o Pobol Y Cwm - 1984-2012
9. Brian Blessed, Chancellor of Cambridge University?!
10. Total Football: In Praise of Swansea City
Of the 10, only 4 were written this month though this isn't surprising considering I'd only written 15 in total this month. The other 6 are popular blog posts written in months past that continue to attract hits. The 4 that I wrote this month came in at No.2, 5, 8 and 10.
They included the news of my engagement and also a rare bilingual Welsh post on the 'death' of a favourite fictional character from the Welsh soap opera Pobol Y Cwm. I need to write more in Welsh and this will hopefully spur me on to do so.
Blog Traffic
Of all of the blog visitors this past month, 12.10% were through direct traffic (up from 11.61% in December), 23.67% came from referring sites (down from 28.33% in December) and 64.23% via search engines (up from 60.05% in December).
The bounce rate for the month was 19.50% (up on the December total of 14.69%). 81.40% of the total were new visits as opposed to 18.60% returning visitors.
An International Blog!
The visitors to my little blog came from 86 countries/territories this month - down from my December tally of 97 and down further on my May record of 123, with a cumulative total of 178 countries/territories having supplied visitors to my blog to date.
The top ten countries to date are as follows (with position change from December & % of total views):
1. United Kingdom (No Change) 52.3% (+0.2%)
2. United States (No Change) 18.2% (-0.1%)
3. Brazil (No Change) 2.1% (-0.1%)
4. Germany (No Change) 2.1% (=)
5. Canada (No Change) 1.9% (=)
6. Australia (No Change) 1.6% (-0.1%)
7. Holland (No Change) 1.5% (+0.1%)
8. Ireland (No Change) 1.3% (-0.1%)
9. France (No Change) 1.3% (+0.1%)
10. Poland (No Change) 1.1% (-0.1%)
A calm month with relatively marginal changes all-round.
It has continued to be a very cosmopolitan blog this month and honourable mentions must go in particular to the 3 new countries/territories that have provided its first viewers to my blog this January.
Grenada, the US Virgin Islands and Lesotho have all 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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