Historical fiction and historical fantasy
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 31,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 46,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 17 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
At some point today, this blog has passed 20,000 views! 🙂
The last mini summary was at 10,000 in November. It’s taken mere two months to double that – glad to see the numbers are still growing, instead of stagnating 🙂
Countries
The world map is looking roughly the same as before – there’s little left to improve. Africa and Middle East have filled up a bit, and there’s a lot of tiny island nations too small to show on the picture. The middle of South America remains strangely elusive – don’t they have the internet in Paraguay? Or is it all proxied through Brazil and Argentina?
The Top 10 countries remain roughly the same, with Canada climbing to the unexpected 4th. Taiwan is now 11th, ahead of India.
The bottom of the chart reads like a geography test. One can only guess what guided somebody from Swaziland or Federated States of Micronesia to my blog; and the single entry from China – was that a censor reading through the list of banned sites and clicking absent-mindedly?
Posts
If anything, the table shows how strong the convergence between traditional media and blogging still is. Four posts in Top 10 (discounting “system pages”) are about what I’ve seen on the telly. A recent breakthrough is the New BBC2 Trailer post – by far the most successful of the year so far. And it’s not even a proper post – just a YouTube link with copied lyrics. The KDP Select post, which I predicted to climb high last time, has done just that – now safe at No. 1
Spots 11-13 are occupied by more of my self-publishing ramblings.
I’m not posting top search results this time, as they are getting a bit meaningless and monotonous: roughly, equivalent to the Top 10 posts, just more jumbled.
Top referrers:
| Referrer | Views | |
|---|---|---|
 Search Engines |
4,543 | |
 Reddit |
1,979 | |
 spn.sr |
509 | |
 tumblr.com |
321 | |
 Facebook |
292 | |
| thepassivevoice.com |
263 | |
 Twitter |
218 | |
 WordPress Dashboard |
177 | |
| goodreads.com |
155 | |
 StumbleUpon |
130 |
The big Spn.sr number comes from a one-day test of one of those paid referral places. Turned out to be just a bunch of spam-bots.
Search Engines, reddit, tumblr and FB are still big: Reddit is still massive, even though I think my site was ghost-banned for a while there 🙂 I’ve recently discovered that Google+ clicks often register as “search engine” query, so there may be quite a lot of these in the 4000 number. Passive Voice clicks come from just one comment on the blog. Twitter, Goodreads and StumbleUpon are trailing behind the big guys.
Top Clicks:
| URL | Clicks |
|---|---|
| amazon.com |
374 |
 Google |
245 |
| jamescalbraith.files.wordpress.com |
211 |
| bbc.co.uk |
174 |
| en.wikipedia.org |
61 |
| amazon.co.uk |
53 |
| highwayman8155.webspace.virginmedia.com |
49 |
| kindlenationdaily.com |
38 |
| ereadernewstoday.com |
38 |
 Google+ |
3 |
The blog continues to serve as decent advertisement for my Amazon books: over 420 clicks combined. BBC clicks are almost all from that New Trailer post 🙂
Totals, followers, shares:
Most views per day: January 15, 351 (discounting the spn.sr experiment)
EDIT: Actually, my best day turned out to be today, at a staggering 606 views! 🙂
Most comments per day: September 14 (the previous stats post – I have such a geeky audience 🙂
Most commented post: KDP Select – a week later. The price of one’s soul.
Comments per month: 13
So, what’s the next landmark number we’re aiming for? Dare I say, 50,000 ?
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 15,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals
Yesterday I broke through 5000 pageviews on this blog. That’s a cause to celebrate 🙂 The blog is active since the middle of June, so it’s taken almost exactly three months to reach the 5000. My other blog, that I moved from (and where all posts older than June come from) is at twice that much, but it’s been going on since July 2010 and Blogger counts pageviews a bit different than WordPress.
Here are some stats from these three months, if anyone’s interested. Warning: it’s a long post, and it’s got a lot of numbers. Feel free to skip it altogether 🙂 Continue reading “5000 views – viewing stats”
James Calbraith 