October Statporn
Wordpress Stats:487 Visits
Google Analytics
Visits: 360
Absolute Unique Visits: 222
No idea how two rather divergent sets of statistics came out. A downturn in readers this month as a result of last month having a slight conference bubble. As other commitments crept in, limiting my ability to publish regularly, and my posts got longer and more academic, some readers will have left. My writing on issues outside that on my RSS reader has also led to a drop in readers. Still, the articles in the new “religion” category seems to have drawn in some new readers.
This month I got predominantly new visitors over returning ones. This may be because my feed is managed through feedburner, which registers an average of 13 hits per day.
Top referrers this month were:
- Facebook (+2)
- Letters from a Tory (-1)
- Tom Harris (New)
- Iain Dale (-2)
- Total Politics (new)
- The Young Conservative (New)
- The Commune (New)
- Alexandra Swann (New)
- Hotair.com (-9)
- John Redwood (New)
- Recess Monkey (New)
- Broken Britain (New)
Direct hits remained the top source of traffic.
Sphere: Related ContentStatsmut for September
A slight disparity in the statistics for last month. Google Analytics reports 689 Visits, with 584 Absolute Unique visits. Wordpress Stats however suggest a slightly lower figure of 522 views, although I am not quite sure how they reach this figure. Nonetheless this remains the highest month on record. I got a large number of visitors from the US after getting linked to on hotair.com regarding my post on Sarah Palin. The interest generated by the slight nod to the Atlantic might lead me to write a bit more about US politics, but I somehow doubt this would be of particular interest to my regular readers. If you feel particularly strongly about this either way, please let me know in the comments section.
Another good source of traffic was breaking the story on Luke Akehurst’s Labour Leadership facebook group backfiring, which even spurned a second facebook group to allow Tories their own special place to praise the Experienced One. Traffic from Tory Bear and Iain Dale therefore came in as new referrers.
My foray into the Facebook Blog Networks has also made me gains with new referrals and readers.
The top referrers then for me this month were:
1. Hotair.com
2. Letters from a Tory
3. Iain Dale
4. Facebook
5. Tory Bear
