{"id":1073,"date":"2008-04-07T23:11:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2008-04-08T00:15:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T23:15:54","slug":"menky-stat-check-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/menky-stat-check-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Menky stat check (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was so busy thinking about how reprehensible it was of Labour to double the tax rate for low-earners yesterday (which I blogged about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/will-you-be-better-off\/\">last year<\/a>, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/changing-your-mind\/\">this telling quote<\/a> from Gordon Brown), I completely failed to notice that it was this blog&#8217;s birthday. Happy birthday, blog.<\/p>\n<p>As is now traditional, anniversary day (or, in this case, the day after) is the one day of the year when we do blog stats here. So here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Previous three years&#8217; figures are in brackets, last year&#8217;s first.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 (2, 2, 2): number of servers this site has been hosted on<\/li>\n<li>2 (2, 2, 2): number of blogging applications used<\/li>\n<li>977 (873, 588, 226): total number of posts<\/li>\n<li>1,518 (1,350, 774, 444): total number of comments<\/li>\n<li>1.55 (1.55, 1.32, 1.96): average number of comments per post<\/li>\n<li>269 (259, 192, 119): number of number plates spotted (playing since May 2004 &#8211; may be time to give up)<\/li>\n<li>96,335 (70,993, 43,016, 6,322): total unique hits (counting since May 2004)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top seven referring websites (excluding search engines):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 (6): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w4mp.org\/\">W4MP<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6 (5): <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalengland.blogspot.com\/\">Liberal England<\/a><\/li>\n<li>5 (4): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">Bloglines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4 (3): <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\">BBC News<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3 (7): <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2 (2): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kakuro.info\">kakuro.info<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1 (1): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemblogs.co.uk\/\">LibDem Blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top nine referring blogs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/loveandliberty.blogspot.com\/\">Love and Liberty<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/iaindale.blogspot.com\/\">Iain Dale<\/a><\/li>\n<li>7 (7): <a href=\"http:\/\/oxfordliberal.blogspot.com\/\">A Liberal Goes A Long Way<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6 (8): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recessmonkey.com\/\">Recess Monkey<\/a><\/li>\n<li>5 (2): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickyog.net\/\">Chicken Yoghurt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4 (6): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedblog.com\/\">Naked Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3 (9): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemvoice.org\/\">Liberal Democrat Voice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2 (4): <a href=\"http:\/\/peterblack.blogspot.com\/\">Peter Black<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1 (1): <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalengland.blogspot.com\/\">Liberal England<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top ten search terms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 (7): guardian<\/li>\n<li>9 (5): toby<\/li>\n<li>8 (6): stephens<\/li>\n<li>7 (4): doctor<\/li>\n<li>6 (-): eurovision<\/li>\n<li>5 (2): kakuro<\/li>\n<li>4 (3): who<\/li>\n<li>3 (-): forward<\/li>\n<li>2 (-): clocks<\/li>\n<li>1 (1): sudoku<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As these are &#8220;all time&#8221; rankings, they do run the risk of changing less and less each year. Here then are what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">Google Analytics<\/a> reckons are the same rankings for the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Top seven referring websites (excluding search engines):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">Bloglines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6: <a href=\"http:\/\/peterblack.blogspot.com\/\">Peter Black<\/a><\/li>\n<li>5: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\">StumbleUpon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kakuro.info\">kakuro.info<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemvoice.org\/\">Liberal Democrat Voice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemblogs.co.uk\/\">LibDem Blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top nine referring blogs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theliberati.net\/quaequamblog\/\">Quaequam Blog!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedblog.com\/\">Naked Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>7: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickyog.net\/\">Chicken Yoghurt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamteladia.org.uk\/\">Adam Teladia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>5: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onewaypendulum.org\/\">One Way Pendulum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4: <a href=\"http:\/\/iaindale.blogspot.com\/\">Iain Dale<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3: <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalengland.blogspot.com\/\">Liberal England<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2: <a href=\"http:\/\/peterblack.blogspot.com\/\">Peter Black<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemvoice.org\/\">Liberal Democrat Voice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top ten search terms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10: hut 33<br \/>(a post briefly higher ranked on Google thank the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/comedy\/hut33.shtml\">official site<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>9: doctor who new companion<br \/>(and that was about Martha, not Donna)<\/li>\n<li>8: love don&#8217;t roam<\/li>\n<li>7: when do the clocks go forward<\/li>\n<li>6: toby stephens<br \/>(I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/10\/toby-stephens\/\">one post<\/a>, for goodness&#8217; sake)<\/li>\n<li>5: tony lit<br \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/14\/where-was-tony-lit-last-month\/\">remember him<\/a>?)<\/li>\n<li>4: who should i vote for president<\/li>\n<li>3: eurovision 2007<br \/>(and it&#8217;s nearly that time again)<\/li>\n<li>2: clocks go forward 2008<\/li>\n<li>1: clocks go forward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phew! Those are probably the measurements to use in future as they&#8217;re marginally more interesting (in the way that having your smallest toe amputated is marginally more interesting than losing the fourth one).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so busy thinking about how reprehensible it was of Labour to double the tax rate for low-earners yesterday (which I blogged about last year, including this telling quote from Gordon Brown), I completely failed to notice that it was this blog&#8217;s birthday. Happy birthday, blog. 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