Statistics

Today is another 'blogging anniversary' - it is exactly one year since I placed a statistics counter on my blog.

This tracker has been the source of some interesting information regarding the reading habits of my 'readers'. I can see how people reached my blog - sometimes through rather amusing combinations of search words on google - and how long they spent reading the site. I have seen my average daily readers creep up and have noticed that that figure has hugely increased since I wrote something about the McCann issue.

It comes as no surprise to me that just over half the readers of this blog this year have been from the UK (55.6%) and that 15.2% are unknown. I was surprised to find however that people have read my writing from as far away as the USA, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Australia, Norway, Italy, Israel, Finland, and Germany. In fact, this blog has been read 7,638 times this year at an average of 62 times per day. I am quite amazed at that figure. I know it is not anywhere near the level of readership of some blogs, but for a personal blog which has no real continuity or theme, I find it pleasing.

The other thing which I was able to glean from the blog tracker was which pages are the most popular. Obviously rachel-catherine.blogspot.com tops the list, as anyone searching for it by name or following a link will come straight to that page. The rest of the top ten are as follows:

McCann facts?, McCann Questions, RMT & The Nigella Express, Book Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Out of the Tunnel, Carol Caplin & the WI, Sainsbury's Magazine & the WI, Book Review: The Time Traveler's Wife and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Again, a list which I do not find terribly surprising.