Here is my sixteenth monthly round-up of blog figures for anyone who is remotely interested in who reads my little blog. These stats for the month of December come courtesy of google analytics.
A Busy Month / A Quiet Month
In one way, December was a busy month, in another, it was not.
My output for the month of 33 blog posts was the highest since March. This was due to my daily Musical Advent Calendar countdown to Christmas which accounted for 24 of the 33 posts. Despite this, because that bulk was of a niche interest, my December total viewing figures were markedly down on the previous month.
In December, I had a total of just 2,753 absolute unique visitors to my blog (down on my November total of 4,159 and substantially so on my May record of 6,485). Those 2,753 absolute unique visitors made 2,954 visits to my blog in December (again down on the 4,346 total from November and substantially down on the 6,908 record from May). They viewed 7, 310 pages (down on the Novmber total of 10,780 pages and the October record of 11,517 pages).
The top 10 stories by direct page views that you've read this past month were:
1. 9am: Swansea City AFC - Premier League!
2. My Xmas Card from Nick Clegg and Miriam Gonzalez Durantez
3. Labour's Leighton Andrews' Extraordinary Live TV Coco Pops Outburst
4. 'The King's Speech' - The Book Vs The Film (SPOILER WARNING!)
5. The Master of Political Cartoon Satire - The Independent's Dave Brown
6. Brian Blessed, Chancellor of Cambridge University?!
7. 2011: A Bad Year for Bad Men - Kim Jong-il joins Bin Laden & Gaddafi. Who's next?
8. The Aberfan Perspective
9. Ed Balls Can't Count
10. The Princes in the Tower - A Gruesome 1483 Royal Mystery: Solved
Of the 10, only 4 were written this month though this is the best new entry effort since August. 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, 7, 9 and 10.
Blog Traffic
Of all of the blog visitors this past month, 11.61% were through direct traffic (down from 13.57% in November), 28.33% came from referring sites (down from 43.49% in November) and 60.05% via search engines (up from 42.94% in November).
The bounce rate for the month was 14.69% (up on the November total of 7.34%). 78.54% of the total were new visits as opposed to 21.46% returning visitors.
An International Blog!
The visitors to my little blog came from 97 countries/territories this month - down from my November tally of 99 and down further on my May record of 123, with a cumulative total of 175 countries/territories having supplied visitors to my blog to date.
The top ten countries to date are as follows (with position change from November & % of total views):
1. United Kingdom (No Change) 52.1% (=)
2. United States (No Change) 18.3% (-0.1%)
3. Brazil (No Change) 2.2% (=)
4. Germany (No Change) 2.1% (=)
5. Canada (No Change) 1.9% (-0.1%)
6. Australia (No Change) 1.7% (-0.1%)
7. Holland (+1) 1.4% (+0.1%)
8. Ireland (-1) 1.4% (=)
9. France (+1) 1.2% (=)
10. Poland (-1) 1.2% (=)
A calm month with relatively little change in the Top 10 apart from Holland's continued move up to 7th from 8th and a rise from 10th to 9th for France.
It has continued to be a very cosmopolitan blog this month and honourable mentions must go in particular to the 5 new countries/territories that have provided its first viewers to my blog this December. This is the highest number of new nations to have visited my blog in a given month since last July.
Djibouti, Kyrgyzstan, Andorra, Nicaragua and Haiti 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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