OK, I give in... my statporn for November 2009

There’s a few people now who produce the stats on their blog to show how popular it is and what sort of search terms are used to find it.  Whilst I do occasionally look at my own as it’s always interesting to see how many people read your blog and how they find it, I’ve never blogged it before as it does seem a little egotistical, except in my annual review of the year.  But having read it on a couple other other people’s blogs and given that it can actually be quite interesting, I thought I’d do it for November and I might try and do it more regularly.  So for November 2009…

OVERALL STATS

2,374 page views (the most I’ve ever had was 3,818 in November 2008), which is an average of 79 per day (the most was 127, again in November 2008) and the busiest day was 18th November when I had 184 page views.

TOP POSTS

1.  Róisín Murphy at Plug
2.  Sheffield Hallam’s Tory PPC resigns after just 10 days
3.  One piece of advice for people joining Lib Dem Act
4.  Jacqui Janes’ name misspelt on The Sun website
5.  Liberal appointed as new European Commissioner
6.  All this coalition talk could be a good thing
7.  Pixie Lott at Sheffield Music City
8.  About Anders
9.  Another corny Clegg headline
10.  Shock News: Russell Howard has become funny

TOP SEARCH TERMS

1.  Roisin Murphy
2.  Pixie Lott
3.  Anders Hanson
4.  Patrick Caulfield
5.  Neil Trafford
6.  New European Commissioners
7.  Turnip Taliban
8.  Ellie Goulding
9.  Russell Howard not funny / is crap
10.  Doug Haw

TOP REFERRERS

1.  Lib Dem Blogs
2.  Lib Dem Voice
3.  Google
4.  Facebook
5.  Jennie Rigg
6.  WordPress.com
7.  British Blogs
8.  Himmelgarten Cafe
9.  John Ault
10. Liberal Democrat Members Site

I’m not sure whether that is interesting for anyone else, but I was intrigued by some of the unusual search terms and referrers.  But what has continually astonished me is how many people every day (usually it’s the top search term) find my blog by looking up Roisin Murphy.  I wrote one review of her gig in Sheffield the other year, which when I look on Google doesn’t even appear in the first few pages, and yet loads of people find my blog that way.  Also of interest is that although my blog is largely political, the most consistently popular posts, (over a year, not just in one week or a month), are the ones that aren’t about politics.  It perhaps goes to show that although blogging has become influential in politics, in the wider internet politics is just a tiny fraction of what people are using the internet for.

Hat Tip: John Ault and Mark Reckons