{"id":1498,"date":"2009-04-06T17:30:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2009-04-06T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:33:09","slug":"menky-stat-check-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/menky-stat-check-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Menky stat check (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dawning of the new financial year indicates that a much more important occasion is upon us: today, this blog is five years old. As has been the tradition over the last half-decade, this is the one day I do blog stats. So here they are. (Yikes &#8211; I see I used almost exactly the same introduction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/menky-stat-check-4\/\">last year<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Previous three years&#8217; figures are in brackets, last year&#8217;s first.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 (2, 2, 2, 2): number of servers this site has been hosted on<\/li>\n<li>2 (2, 2, 2, 2): number of blogging applications used<\/li>\n<li>1,123 (977, 873, 588, 226): total number of posts<\/li>\n<li>1,614 (1,518, 1,350, 774, 444): total number of comments<\/li>\n<li>1.44 (1.55, 1.55, 1.32, 1.96): average number of comments per post<\/li>\n<li>112,651 (70,993, 43,016, 6,322): total unique hits (counting since May 2004 &#8211; now switched to Google Analytics, which counted 6,000 fewer this last year than my old hit counter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top seven referring websites (excluding search engines):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalengland.blogspot.com\/\">Liberal England<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/0tralala.blogspot.com\">Nothing Tra La La?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>5 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishblogs.co.uk\">British Blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4 (3): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemvoice.org\/\">Liberal Democrat Voice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3 (2): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemblogs.co.uk\/\">LibDem Blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1 (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.alexfoster.me.uk\">Niles&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8 (8): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedblog.com\/\">Naked Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>7 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewrunning.blogspot.com\/\">Andrew Reeves&#8217; Running Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativehome.blogs.com\/\">ConserativeHome<\/a> (srsly)<\/li>\n<li>5 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/loveandliberty.blogspot.com\/\">Love and Liberty<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4 (7): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickyog.net\/\">Chicken Yoghurt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3 (3): <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalengland.blogspot.com\/\">Liberal England<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/0tralala.blogspot.com\">Nothing Tra La La?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1 (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 (-): baroness ashton<\/li>\n<li>9 (-): matt smith dr who<\/li>\n<li>8 (-): england census 1911<\/li>\n<li>7 (-): new doctor who announced<\/li>\n<li>6 (6): toby stephens<br \/>(He just won&#8217;t go away. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/10\/toby-stephens\/\">This is why.<\/a> *shrug*)<\/li>\n<li>5 (-): matt smith doctor who<\/li>\n<li>4 (-): new doctor who<\/li>\n<li>3 (-): geoffrey perkins<\/li>\n<li>2 (1): clocks go forward<br \/>(Knocked off the top spot by &#8211; as you may have guessed by now&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>1 (-): matt smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite an otherwise fairly quiet year, this blog&#8217;s biggest day of traffic ever followed the announcement that TV&#8217;s Matt Smith would succeed TV&#8217;s David Tennant and TV&#8217;s <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, largely powered by some surprisingly high Google rankings, reflecting how little had been written about the new Doctor in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Same time next year then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dawning of the new financial year indicates that a much more important occasion is upon us: today, this blog is five years old. 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