December traffic was marginally down on November October at 130,872 unique visitors and 228,952 page downloads. Bearing in mind that traffic collapses over Christmas, the trend is actually up (good bit of New Labour type spin there!)! Here are my top 28 linking sites (ie incoming hits) for December. All these sites referred at least 100 people here. The arrows denote whether a site has moved up or down or stayed static since November. Interestingly ConservativeHome has overtaken Guido for the first time...
1. ConservativeHome 14.06% ↑ 2. Guido Fawkes 12.56% ↓ 3. PoliticalBetting 6.88% ↔ 4. National Review Corner 3.42% NEW 5. Croydonian ↑ 6. Blairwatch ↑ 7. Prague Tory ↔ 8. Andrew Sullivan NEW 9. An Englishman's Castle ↓ 10. Devil's Kitchen ↑ 11. Witanagemot ↔ 12. Biased BBC ↓ 13. Daniel Finkelstein ↓ 14. Adam Smith Institute ↑ 15. Paul Linford ↓ 16. Archbishop Cranmer ↑ 17. Daily Pundit ↑ 18. W4MP ↓ 19. Dizzy Thinks ↑ 20. Web Cameron ↓ 21. Coming Out From Under NEW 22. Tim Blair NEW 23. Cally’s Kitchen ↓ 24. Campaign for an English Parliament NEW 25. Tory Radio NEW 26. Public Interest NEW 27. Norfolk Blogger NEW 28. Ellee Seymour ↔
Dropping out of the Top linkers are Tim Worstall, EU Referendum, Ginger & Dynamite, Mars Hill, Mikey's Tent of Reality, Looking for a Voice, 18DoughtyStreet.com, Clive Davis, Kerron Cross, Drinking from Home, The Spine, Rightlinks, Hoby Cartoons, Liberal England, A Conservative's Blog
4 comments:
There have been severe JHL related problems on Guido that have led to many losing interest
It was always likely that loons would move in and a shame that sensible action has not been taken
(In my humble opinion of course. What do I know?) . Also the general trend may be upward but how about adjusting for averall blog and blog tyoe web use which is supposed to be increasing exponentially .
Personally I find it hard to imagine anyone else doing what you do better than you do it and hope this blog is not also ruined .Its hard to imagine life without it
I've suggested to Guido that he adopts a subscription model. The quality of his research and postings is worth paying for, but he appears to be a victim of his own success. I think it would be wise for him to ration access to recent posts so that the ensuing discussions remain fun but potent.
Couple of points. I think there is inevitably a 'Doubty street' impact where posts aren't made / comments aren't moderated in the evening.
Couldn't somebody else be drafted in for this purpose once in a while ?
I'm sure this explains some of the downward trend in postings.
I think praquetory's suggestion about subscription is a non-starter I'm afraid. There is so much free stuff on the net, people would just drift elsewhere, I'm afraid.
well done iain. those are impressive figures over xmas indeed.
i agree with saki's comments that guido is in danger of jumping the shark, not least as his site is attracting plenty of nuts.
it's always interesting when your site becomes successful how you cope with it. iain is doing fine i think and frankly doesnt need to instantly moderate anything because this is a blog, not a forum.
i dont think there is a downward trend in posting because of iain's doughty street work now. my own site had page views fall by a much larger percentage than iain on a larger sample.
i am also guessing that iains figures show a drop on weekends normally. mine are down a third on weekends because people arent wasting time in the office. traffic on any mature "mature" or "professional" like current affairs is always at the whim of holidays.
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