Tuesday 1 December 2015

Blog stats: November, 2015

I haven’t posted my blog stats here for some time (well, apart from that permanent Google App down there on the left-hand sidebar you can consult anytime you feel like it, just above those automatically Google-generated ‘popular posts), and after another month with the new blog setup here I wanted to see what my Statcounter says about my stats. And here’s the news for the month just finished:

Unique visitors [from Statcounter]: 37, 485
Page Views [from Statcounter]: 50, 619

As you might notice that looks a bit different to the Google figures, which is a little perplexing:

Page Views [from Google]: 218, 879

This sort of suggests that counting stats is far from exact science, one reason I’d stopped posting them. Still, there’s a clear upward trend here since the blog platform was updated, for which I’m grateful:

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And even the much (lower) Statcounter figures would put me fourth in Open Parachute blog’s occasional Top 5 NZ Political Blog Rankings (just ahead of Dim Post, and  well behind the Daily Blog.) But that blog-ranking system uses SiteMeter, which I don’t use – so who knows.

Anyway, for what it’s worth Google says these are the Top Ten Most-Read Posts from November 2015:

  1. Lest we forget
  2. Little thought given to Labour’s buy-local lunacy
  3. Christmas Island, rape, and other random questions...
  4. Quote of the day: On Christmas Island
  5. Vertigo?
  6. “Bill Gate’s Solution to Climate Change Reveals His Misunderstanding of Capitalism and Free Markets”
  7. Auckland: The mongrel now has momentum.
  8. Quote of the day: On NZers being deported from Aus...
  9. “Modern Educayhsun”
  10. Free trade is fair trade

Although, confusingly, StatCounter makes a case for these as well:

  1. Jonah Lomu, 1975-2015
  2. For ‘living wage’ campaigners to be right, economic theory has to be wrong
  3. Friday Morning Ramble, after a bad week …
  4. Susan Devoy fails to fight for chance to teach new immigrants
  5. Quote of the day: Why are there so few Muslim terrorists?
  6. Fixing those fragile campus kids

And from both sources I count these as the Top-ten sites referring sites:

Small Dead Animals, Facebook, Reddit (odd, since I can’t even post a Reddit widget here), Twitter, No Minister, Kiwiblog, Lindsay Mitchell, Gus Van Horn, NZ Conservative, and Life Behind the IRon Drape. (Thank you all.)

Now, for the geeks …

they’re reading Not PC here:

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top countries/territories
NZ 48%; US 19%; Canada, 9%; Australia 6%; UK 4%; Germany 1.7%; France 1.6%; India, 1.4%
… top cities
Auckland 19%; Wellington 5%; Christchurch 4%; Hamilton, 1.5%; Palmerston North, 1.3%; Dunedin, 1.1%; Calgary, 1%; London 1%; Tauranga, 1%; Sydney 0.9%
… readers' browsers
Chrome, 33%; Mobile browsers, 23%; Firefox/Flock 33%; IE Explorer 12%; Tablets, 9%; Safari 7%
… readers’ OS
Win 7 29%; Mobile, 23%; Win 10, 11%; OS X 11%; Win 8.1, 9%; iOS, 7%; Win XP, 3%; Linux 2%; Android 2%; Win Vista, 1%
… readers’ screen widths
1280-1438 27% ; 1-601, 23%; 1920-3480 19%; 640-768, 8%; 1600-1778, 8%

So in summary, the changes to the blog have either attracted more readers, or has measured many more. And NZ still supplies the largest location of readership, which makes sense.

Either way: Cheers, and thanks to you all for reading, linking to and talking about NOT PC this month,
Peter Cresswell

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Open Parachute stats
UtopiaYouarestandinginit says his monthly hit was - " With 68,618 page views, I am the sixth most viewed blog in New Zealand ", yet Open Parachute doesn't list him, nor you
That's a huge difference between 221,247 and 37,485 ~ almost like local body accounting
Peter

paul scott said...

ha PC if you think your Statistics are good now, you wait till you get my award for being blogger of the year . This is big, very big indeed., google will be rolling its numbers. You can believe me , it always works . Quixotically enough I gave this award to a tabloid blogger we know well, for a couple of years, and his numbers went crazy so that he just took off walking in Peru somewhere, and thought the world was his. Not so. Of course I receive a lot of lobbying from unusual sources, and you wouldn't think Mike Butler would lobby me would you,
but there we are. Spanish Gold

paul scott said...

Anonymous above 17.58 I checked open parachute a couple of years ago, and it was all up the chute, some blogs non existent, some repeats; all sorts of anomalies.

Peter Cresswell said...

Aye, when disparities are as wide as that, it's clear that blog-stats gathering is still far from a perfect science.

Peter Cresswell said...

Thanks Paul. I shall book my tickets to Macchu Pichu on that basis. :-)