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.