. . . and statistics

Open Parachute has posted his regular monthly blog rankings:

There are now 279 New Zealand blogs in the list.

The top 30 are:

Visit Rank	Blog	Visits/month	Page Views/month
1	Whale oil beef hooked	767409	1628849
2	Kiwiblog	374944	648727
3	The Standard	193319	438265
4	The Daily Blog	181888	281529
5	Auckland Transport Blog	142709	148616
6	Throng New Zealand	52676	101376
7	Sciblogs	46993	65302
8	NewZeal	41815	54563
9	Liturgy	39849	55479
10	The Dim-Post	38214	52953
11	Canterbury Atheists	34294	36159
12	No Right Turn	31480	40742
13	Keeping stock	25187	40021
14	No Minister	23892	31330
15	The REAL Steve Gray	21122	22357
16	Homepaddock	20620	50402
17	coNZervative	18573	18758
18	Colour me there	17209	22516
19	Fields of Blood	13774	21793
20	TVHE	13693	19495
21	Hot Topic	12695	17613
22	Imperator Fish	11814	17214
23	Liberation	11069	18453
24	Sportsfreak	10386	10510
25	Offsetting Behaviour	9683	13687
26	Lance Wiggs	9074	10741
27	Open Parachute	8664	12530
28	MandM	8395	10061
29	Matte Shot	7579	12341
30	Tikorangi The Jury Garden	7318	11162

There was an unusual spike in visits here on Monday the 5th and Tuesday the 6th.

Nothing in the search terms indicated a reason nor was tehre anything out of the ordinary about any of the posts or comments that day to explain it but statcounter, recorded a similar spike.

Page Views	Unique Visits		First Time Visits		Returning Visits
Total		54,591		44,881		36,355		8,526
Average		1,761		1,448		1,173		275

Friday	9th August 2013	936	636	390	246
Thursday	8th August 2013	1,032	724	473	251
Wednesday	7th August 2013	1,257	809	511	298
Tuesday	6th August 2013	3,244	2,942	2,641	301
Monday	5th August 2013	19,128	18,565	18,197	368
Sunday	4th August 2013	1,104	684	451	233
Saturday	3rd August 2013	1,873	1,496	1,274	222
Friday	2nd August 2013	1,205	721	421	300
Thursday	1st August 2013	1,303	765	457	308

Getting the book invented

Hat tip: Open Parachute

Blooming marvellous

For the first time in the history of the Olympics every country has at least one woman in its team.

That’s blooming marvellous and someone’s said it with flowers – leaving roses on the grave of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.

The note on the blooms reads: In remembrance of your courage and determination. For the first time ever all Olympic teams have a female athlete. Thank you EMC.

Hat Tip: Open Parachute

2011 in blogging

One of the services WordPress supplies for its bloggers is an annual report at year’s end.

London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 330,000times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it would take about 4 sold-out events for that many people to see it.

In 2011, there were 2,419 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 8,791 posts. There were 93 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was October 20th with 1,947 views . . .

The top referring sites were:

nominister.blogspot.com

kiwiblog.co.nz

nzconservative.blogspot.com

keepingstock.blogspot.com

asianinvasian.blogspot.com (Cactus Kate).

The most active commenters were: Robert Guyton 1008 comments, Gravedodger 604 commments; Andrei 539 comments; PDM 311 comments and Inventory 2 249 comments.

Thank you WordPress and all readers and commenters.

UPDATE: Open Parachute has December’s sitemeter rankings and Whaleoil is now #1 with  260294 unique visitors last month.

You show me yours . . .

Keeping Stock has shown us his stats for a record month and Lindsay Mitchell also recorded an increase in visitors.

There’s no doubt the election was good for readership.

I can’t compete with the popularity of  Kiwiblog and Whaleoil whose stats here and here show almost as many readers a week as I got in the month. But the number of visitors to this blog in November was the highest yet:

UPDATE: Open Parachute has the sitemeter blog rankings here.

In-flight fame

Kia Ora, Air New Zealand’s in-flight magazine, has a blog watch in its February edition.

The two blogs featured are Kiwiblog and this one about which Kia Ora says:

Kiwiblog creator David Farrar has been “fomenting happy mischief” online for nigh on eight years and his followers grow by the day, with more than 6,500 regular commenters.

Right leaning Farrar is prolific, posting up to eight time s a day on a healthy mixture of politics, the internet and technology (even asking for help with his laptop).

From the window of her North Otago farmhouse, Ele Ludemann reflects on New Zealand’s social and political world from a rural and slightly right-leaning perspective. The self-confessed media junkie also provides titillating words of the day such as “bumfuzzle.

While on the topic of blogs, Open Parachute has posted his January sitemeter rankings.

Stat time again

Open Parachute has published his monthly blog rankings.

They rely on public access to Sitemeter stats which is why some popular blogs don’t feature.

Sitemeter always seems to be less generous with its counting than Stat Counter.

In September Sitemeter recorded 16,528 unique visitors for this blog and 22,818 total visits. While Stat Counter recorded 17,472 unique visitors and 24,206 total visits.

To put that in perspective the top three blogs on Open Parachute’s chart got 227207 visits (Kiwiblog); 147877 visits (New Zeal) and  134 942 visits (Throng New Zealand).