Saturday, November 01, 2008

October Statporn

561,903 Individual Readers in the Last 12 Months



Traffic in October was virtually unchanged from September - absolute uniques up a bit but pageviews down. Year on year, traffic has increased by nearly 50%. More than half a million individual people have read this blog over the last twelve months.

Year on Year Absolute Unique Visitors +47%
1 Nov 2007-31 Oct 2008 561,902 1 Nov 2006-31 Oct 2007 382,310

Absolute Unique Visitors
Oct 2008 67,764 - October 2007 54,643 - Sept 2008 67,494

Visits
October 2008 320,456 - October 2007 279,097 - Sept 2008 - 324,284

Page Loads
October 2008 446,383 October 2007 426,292 - Sept 2008 476,628

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

1. - Guido Fawkes 24,710 (22,827)
2. - ConservativeHome 14,764 (15,454)
3. - Spectator Coffee House 12,248 (14,151)
4. - PoliticalBetting 6,541 (9,097)
5. - Dizzy Thinks 2,810 (3,615)
6. - Daniel Finkelstein & Red Box 2,295 (3,175)
7. +13 Biased BBC 1,678 (760)
8. +1 Ben Brogan 1,288 (1,181)
9. +1 Bloggerheads 1,151 (1,166)
10. +6 Tom Harris 1,121 (880)
11. +3 Obnoxio the Clown 1,156 (963)
12. -1 Telegraph blogs 1,134 (1,142)
13. -5 Devil's Kitchen 861 (1,376)
14. +4 SNP Tactical Voting 840 (794)
15. -3 Little Man in a Toque 816 (1,034)
16. +3 Daily Referendum 810 (791)
17. -2 EU Referendum 772 (902)
18. NEW Bob Piper 733 (-)
19. -2 Archbishop Cranmer 702 (810)
20. -13 Tim Worstall 680 (1,420)

Some popular search phrases

"Most shaggable blogger"
"iain dale stockings and suspenders" (!)
"shane greer gay"
"lord tebbit buggery"

Source: All figures are from Google Analytics.

12 comments:

Archbishop Cranmer said...

Alas, His Grace has nearly fallen off the bottom of your table.

This is curious, when his own unique visits now number (a modest) 35,000, which is 132% up on last October.

Shalom.

Matthew Cain said...

Out of curiosity, what proportion of your hits come from Google search?

IanPJ said...

I think Tom Harris is likely to surpass those figures next month judging by the hits he is getting at the moment.

http://tomcharris.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/an-orwellian-nightmare-oh-wake-up/

Anonymous said...

So you get fewer readers than Nadine?

Iain Dale said...

No idea, although I doubt it. If she doesnt use Google Analytics there is no way of knowing.

Anonymous said...

Iain
I realise it's good to have a high number of visitor's to your site. It flatters you and attracts adverising.
But you must be aware that a large number of posts are from Labour trolls, which is irritating, to say the least, for conservative readers.
Can you not delete some of these pests, or will it affect the profitability of your blog?

Iain Dale said...

I'm not sure how people who comment can affect profitability! Indeed, I'm not sure how one would define profitability in this context anyway!

Anonymous said...

Iain, you say absolute uniques are up slightly but the number you give in the post for October is the same as for September. Typo?

Iain Dale said...

Mark, thanks for alerting me. The figure is 67,764, so 300 up on September. I have now corrected it.

Wrinkled Weasel said...

"lord tebbit buggery"

You got me bang to rights.

Anonymous said...

Nadine says she gets 800,000, surely she must be mistaken?

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Is Shane Greer really gay?