July Traffic Figures

Despite the falloff in traffic over the last week (because of my trip to Rwanda and preventing people from commenting anonymously) July was a record month, with 235,139 unique visitors (previous best 231,901) and 409,499 pageloads.

Here are my top 50 linking sites (ie incoming hits) for July. All these sites referred at least 100 people here. The arrows denote whether a site has moved up or down or stayed static since June...

1. Guido Fawkes 17.4% ↔ 2. PoliticalBetting 9.1% ↑ 3. ConservativeHome 9.02% ↓ 4. Tom Watson MP 1.68% NEW 5. Biased BBC 1.31% ↑ 6. Daniel Finkelstein 1.18% ↓ 7. Islington Newmania ↑ 8. Dizzy Thinks ↓ 9. W4MP ↑ 10. Hot, Ginger & Dynamite NEW 11. Bloggerheads ↑ 12. Ed Clarke ↑ 13. Witanagemot ↓ 14. UK Polling Report ↑ 15. Paul Linford ↓ 16. Liberal England ↑ 17. LibDem Voice ↓ 18. Chris Paul ↑ 19. Devil's Kitchen ↑ 20. Daily Referendum ↓ 21. British Bullshit Foundation ↑ 22. Luke Akehurst ↓ 23. Slugger O'Toole ↓ 24. An Englishman's Castle ↓ 25. Croydonian ↑ 26. Pickled Politics NEW 27. Prisoner's Voice ↓ 28. Prague Tory ↓ 29. Bob Piper ↓ 30. Norfolk Blogger ↑ 29. Hoby Cartoons ↓ 30. Neil Reddin NEW 31. A Conservative's Blog ↓ 32. Right Thinking ↑ 33. Archbishop Cranmer NEW 34. Blairwatch NEW 35. David Lindsay ↓ 36. Adam Smith Institute ↓ 37. Nadine Dorries NEW 38. Kiwiblog ↑ 39. Political Hack NEW 40. Waendel Blog NEW 41. Justin Hinchcliffe ↓ 42. House of Dumb NEW 43. Some Doubts ↑ 44. Phil Taylor NEW 45. Mikey's Tent of Reality ↓ 46. Electoral Calculus NEW

Those dropping out of the top 50 are NHS Blog Doctor, Blamerbellbriefs, Spectator Coffee House, Tim Worstall, Public Interest, Tim Blair, Theo Spark, National Review Corner , Cally's Kitchen, Kerron Cross, Glyn Davies, Labour Watch, Ordovicius,

Link exchanges are really important in driving traffic to other sites. A big thank you to everyone who links to me. Remember, if you have a link to me and you don't see one to you on my blogroll, just let me know in the comments and I will rectify it.