May Statporn

Another Record Month

For this blog it was another record month in May with 142,079 absolute unique visitors, compared with 128,574 in April. Page views have doubled since January with more than 1.1 million in May.

Year on Year Absolute Unique Visitors +60%
1 May 2008-30 April 2009 800,800 1 May 2007-30 April 2008 488,027

Absolute Unique Visitors +65% year on year
April 2009 142,079 - April 2008 71,877 - Apr 2009 128,574

Page Loads year on year +132%
May 2009 1,101,119 - May 2008 375,755

Here are my top 30 linking sites (ie incoming hits) for May, according to Google Analytics.

1. - Guido Fawkes 102,333 (79,199)
2. +21 PoliticsHome 24,282 (19,458)
3. -1 Spectator Coffee House 21,946 (21,395)
4. +1 ConservativeHome 21,715 (15,395)
5. -2 PoliticalBetting 19,788 (19,791)
6. - Twitter 9,009 (6,289)
7. +1 Facebook 7,748 (6,175)
8. -1 Dizzy Thinks 7,179 (6,216)
9. +1 Daniel Finkelstein & Red Box 6,571 (4,434)
10. -1 Old Holborn 5,106 (5,473)
11. +3 Telegraph blogs 4,393 (2,066)
12. -1 Obnoxio the Clown 3,723 (3,170)
13. - Tom Harris 2,429 (2,107)
14. +4 Paul Waugh 1,870 (1,274)
15. +12 Nadine Dorries 1,570 (880)
16. +4 LabourList 1,437 (1,176)
17. -5 Bloggerheads 1,434 (2,192)
18. +8 SNP Tactical Voting 1,271 (938)
19. +9 Archbishop Cranmer 1,160 (861)
20. -4 Devil's Kitchen 1,121 (1,680)
21. -2 Ambush Predator 1,090 (1,206)
22. N NHS Blog Doctor 1,074
23. +7 John Redwood's Diary 1,021 (832)
24. N Little Man in a Toque 1,024
25. N UK Polling Report 1,007
26. N Burning our Money 978
27. N Douglas Carswell 917
28. +1 Bob Piper 912 (832)
29. -4 Daily Referendum 819 (945)
30. N EU Referendum 809

Source: All figures are from Google Analytics. Absolute Unique Visitors broadly means people using over 142,000 different computers visited this blog at least once. Some people may be counted more than once (eg, home and work computer),whilst some people may not be counted (eg, two different people use the same computer, or someone reads the site through a feed reader without ever actually visiting it).

June Statporn

June traffic was 10% down on May, which was by far and away the best month for traffic on the blog since I started it. However, year on year, absolute uniques were up 32% to 64,396.

Absolute Unique Visitors
June 2008 64,396 - June 2007 43,273 - May 2008 71,877

Visits
June 2008 303,980 - June 2007 222,281 - May 2008 - 375,755

Page Loads
April 2008 407,692 June 2007 339,681 - April 2008 588,715

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

1. +1 ConservativeHome 19,702 (28,696)
2. -1 Guido Fawkes 28,999 (28,499)
3. - Spectator Coffee House 11,572 (13,189)
4. +1 Politics Home 9,088 (10,033)
5. -1 PoliticalBetting 8,349 (11,870)
6. - Daniel Finkelstein & Red Box 3,706 (6,627)
7. - Dizzy Thinks 3,088 (5,028)
8. +1 Boulton & Co 2,202 (2,058)
9. +2 Ben Brogan 1,760 (1,406)
10. -2 NHS Blog Doctor 1,581 (2,906)
11. NEW EU Referendum 1,094 (NEW)
12. +8 Bloggerheads 914 (654)
13. NEW Recess Monkey 896 (NEW)
14. -2 Telegraph Blogs 890 (1,245)
15. -5 Biased BBC 860 (1,496)
16. +1 Devil's Kitchen 843 (767)
17. -3 Daily Referendum 690 (954)
18. - Archbishop Cranmer 681 (681)
19. -3 Chris Paul 690 (818)
20. -4 UK Polling Report 632 (1,032)

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.

May Statporn

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May was by far and away the best month for traffic on the blog since I started it. Absoute Uniques were 18% up on April, which in turn had been the previous best. Readership is 60% up, year on year. By this time next year I'm aiming for 100,000 unique readers each month.

Absolute Unique Visitors
May 2008 71,877 - May 2007 45,000 - April 2008 61,008

Visits
May 2008 375,755 - May 2007 200,291 - April 2008 - 272,169

Page Loads
April 2008 588,715 May 2007 280,134 - April 2008 414,848

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

1. - Guido Fawkes 28,999 (16,510)
2. - ConservativeHome 28,536 (14,191)
3. +1 Spectator Coffee House 13,189 (6,257)
4. -1 PoliticalBetting 11,870 (6,700)
5. +2 Politics Home 10,033 (3,165)
6. - Daniel Finkelstein & Red Box 6,627 (3,757)
7. -2 Dizzy Thinks 5,028 (4,576)
8. - NHS Blog Doctor 2,906 (1,912)
9. +1 Boulton & Co 2,058 (1,512)
10. +5 Biased BBC 1,496 (754)
11. -2 Ben Brogan 1,406 (1,529)
12. - Telegraph Blogs 1,245 (1,112)
13. NEW UK Polling Report 1,023 (N)
14. Re-entry Daily Referendum 954 (Re)
15. NEW Bob Piper 857 (NEW)
16. Re-entry Chris Paul 818 (Re)
17. -4 Devil's Kitchen 737 (1,103)
18. -1 Archbishop Cranmer 722 (669)
19. -3 Burning our Money 670 (732)
20. -9 Bloggerheads 654 (1,314)

Dropping out are LabourHome, Little Man in a Toque, Tim Worstall,Recess Monkey

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.