{"id":1840,"date":"2010-04-10T07:49:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T06:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2010-04-10T00:25:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T23:25:42","slug":"the-saturday-list-menky-stat-check-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2010\/04\/10\/the-saturday-list-menky-stat-check-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saturday List: Menky Stat Check (6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was this blog&#8217;s sixth anniversary and so the one day of the year I talk blog stats. But it was also the day the General Election was called, so I&#8217;ve been a bit busy this week. I&#8217;ve therefore merged this weekend&#8217;s list with the annual number round-up.<\/p>\n<p>So here we go. The previous five years&#8217; figures are in brackets, last year&#8217;s first.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 (3, 2, 2, 2, 2): number of servers this site has been hosted on<\/li>\n<li>2 (2, 2, 2, 2, 2): number of blogging applications used<\/li>\n<li>1,157 (1,123, 977, 873, 588, 226): total number of posts<\/li>\n<li>1,742 (1,614, 1,518, 1,350, 774, 444): total number of comments<\/li>\n<li>1.51 (1.44, 1.55, 1.55, 1.32, 1.96): average number of comments per post<\/li>\n<li>137,317 (112,651, 70,993, 43,016, 6,322): total unique hits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top seven referring websites (excluding search engines):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/derrenbrown.co.uk\/blog\/\">Derren Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6 (5): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishblogs.co.uk\">British Blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>5 (6): <a href=\"http:\/\/0tralala.blogspot.com\">Nothing Tra La La?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4 (7): <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalengland.blogspot.com\/\">Liberal England<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3 (3): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemblogs.co.uk\/\">LibDem Blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1 (2): <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(With two new entries there, the sites that dropped from the chart were Lib Dem Voice and Wikipedia &#8211; last year&#8217;s number one referrer.)<\/p>\n<p>Top nine referring blogs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/wulfweard.blog.co.uk\/\">Wulfweard the White<\/a><\/li>\n<li>8 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/poddelusion.co.uk\/blog\/\">The Pod Delusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li>7 (7): <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewrunning.blogspot.com\/\">Andrew Reeves&#8217; Running Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6 (8): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedblog.com\/\">Naked Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>5 (5): <a href=\"http:\/\/loveandliberty.blogspot.com\/\">Love and Liberty<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markpack.org.uk\/\">Mark Pack<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3 (-): <a href=\"http:\/\/derrenbrown.co.uk\/blog\/\">Derren Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2 (2): <a href=\"http:\/\/0tralala.blogspot.com\">Nothing Tra La La?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1 (3): <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalengland.blogspot.com\/\">Liberal England<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I should point out that those Derren Brown referrals came from someone in his comments, not the scary brain man himself.)<\/p>\n<p>Top ten search terms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 (-): &#8220;derren brown&#8221; lottery<\/li>\n<li>9 (-): hut 33<\/li>\n<li>8 (-): barry letters<\/li>\n<li>7 (-): derren brown lottery how<\/li>\n<li>6 (-): eurovision 2009 island<\/li>\n<li>5 (-): top 10 iphone apps<\/li>\n<li>4 (-): darren brown lottery<\/li>\n<li>3 (-): derren brown lottery prediction<\/li>\n<li>2 (1): eurovision 2009<\/li>\n<li>1 (-): derren brown lottery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Turns out that lottery song brought in much of the last year&#8217;s traffic. Other choice searches from the top 30 include toby stephens (finally out of the top 10); freebmd; karaoke circus; and colin jeavons.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to be on time next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was this blog&#8217;s sixth anniversary and so the one day of the year I talk blog stats. But it was also the day the General Election was called, so I&#8217;ve been a bit busy this week. I&#8217;ve therefore merged this weekend&#8217;s list with the annual number round-up. So here we go. 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