Monday, September 01, 2008

August Statporn

August traffic was 14.5% down on July in terms of unique visitors. Year on year, absolute uniques were up 45%, but down 4% since July.

Absolute Unique Visitors
August 2008 56,846 - August 2007 39,071 - July 2008 59,441

Visits

August 2008 254,078 - August 2007 188,784 - July 2008 - 297,375

Page Loads
July 2008 350,694 July 2007 273,496 - July 2008 401, 136

Here are my top 20 linking sites (ie incoming hits) for August, according to Google Analytics.

1. - Guido Fawkes 18,379 (20.878)
2. - ConservativeHome 14,013 (17,601)
3. - Spectator Coffee House 10,966 (11.083)
4. - PoliticalBetting 6,358 (8,672)
5. +1 Dizzy Thinks 3,258 (2,740)
6. -1 Daniel Finkelstein & Red Box 2,157 (3,111)
7. +8 Devil's Kitchen 1,186 (744)
8. +3 EU Referendum 817 (822)
9. +4 Bloggerheads 798 (777)
10. -1 Recess Monkey 786 (862)
11. -1 Archbishop Cranmer 779 (823)
12. +5 Little Man in a Toque 679 (622)
13. NEW Telegraph blogs 633 (-)
14. +6 SNP Tactical Voting 632 (522)
15. +1 Daily Referendum 604 (680)
16. -4 Biased BBC 584 (813)
17. -10 Ben Brogan 535 (1,443)
18. - Bob Piper 530 (592)
19. NEW Tom Harris 507 (-)
20. -12 NHS Blog Doctor 464 (1,093)

Source: All figures are from Google Analytics including those from previous months. These figures replace those I had previously used until a few months ago which came from Extreme Tracking.com, who do not count Absolute Uniques.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

August traffic was 14.5% down on July
It's the recession, see?

Anonymous said...

Its not the recession, the blog posts have diminished IMHO ergo visitors likewise. Furthermore filling space with the 100 top turds doesn't help either.

Iain Dale said...

It's August, all blogs, newspapers, TV progs etc have a downturn in August compared to previous months. Still way up on last year though!

Anonymous said...

A splendid idea. The 100 Top Political Turds (Regardless Of Party Allegiance). That should get readers flocking to the site.

My personal nomination for Turd No 1: Ed Balls.

Anonymous said...

Iain, No offence was intended, I am a political junkie, holidays etc are no excuse, I want information regularly 24/7/365.!!
Incidentally Ed Balls would top the chart in my book.

PS your blog is superb.

Anonymous said...

Good results, but Nadine Dorries claims to get 700,000 unique visitors.

So keep up the good work.

Iain Dale said...

I think you will find that she is using a different counting method to Google Analytics.

Anonymous said...

I mean this with all respect, but why publish this? Who actually cares? Or is it for you own personal gratification?

Iain Dale said...

I publish it a) because I always have, b) because I want to be transparent about my readership c) because it annoys the **** out of Tim Ireland and d) because it shows that blogs like mine have a wide and growing readership.

Anonymous said...

I liked that little map you used to have that showed whereabouts in the world visitors to your site were based. Why did you do away with that?

Iain Dale said...

Because it kept crashing the site. I liked it too!

Theo Spark said...

My stats went up, which wasn't bad considering I wasn't blogging. And while we are willy waving. 145,131 visitors and 249,238 page loads.