There is always a lot of talk of ip addresses and weblogs when things get tough on the blogs, frankly they are something I seldom look at, I put a counter on this blog some time ago and readers increase slowly at the moment there are a bit over 1,000 counts registering a week. I can’t tell how this compares with the other local blogs as they don’t have counters on them, however curiosity being what it is I am always interested I one statistic that I do get and that is how many people come to my blog by clicking on the link on another blog. The odd men out here are Strife as there is no link on the sidebar so the 28 comes from links in posts and Bignews that hasn’t had a link for very long.All traffic sources sent 3,002 visits via 51 sources and mediums
30.58% Direct traffic
53.10% Referring sites
16.32% Search engines
Eastcliff Richard 787
Thanet Bloglist 132
Thanet Strife 28
Village Voices 21
Bignews Margate 16
Margate Architecture 6
Villeviews 5
Ramsgaterants 2
Thanet Star 2
Ramsgate Mitch 1
I don’t know what these statistics really mean they don’t relate to what the counter says nor the fact that I have often used the link on all of these sites to get back to my own, perhaps they only count one ip address once.
However I suspect the roughly relate to the popularity of the various local blogs.
Blimey Michael, does this mean that 780 people were so hacked off with Eastcliffes site that they went for quality and over to your site?????????????
ReplyDeleteHow reassuring to know we have a comedian in charge of our planning committee!
ReplyDeleteIf you want to know the truth, Ken, 786 of those 787 click throughs from my site were probably me!
Richard, I suspect your right, I use my click through or yours most of the time
ReplyDeleteI regularly read your blogs, Michael - possibly more than any others.
ReplyDeleteMy route to yours & other blogs of thanet is via the recent feeds list on Thanet blog List (TBL).
I rarely use links from any other blog.
From my own blog I only have a link to TBL and not any other bloggers.
Various reasons - partly because I find web pages with too many links and too much info a bit confusing - so I have tried to keep mine simple.
Partly also being a technophobe - I like reading & writing but I do not like working out all the fiddly bits of putting together the blog page. - I am very impressed by the 'feeds' thingy - but would have no idea how to set it up. Am not even sure how to get into my side bar and edit it!
For info: My blog get about 700 hits per week.
In a single day - I think the counter recognises IP addresses and only records them once - and doesn't record me looking at my site. Hits in a day vary greatly between about 10-70.
Quite a few come from ECR & TBL also from random searches on phrases - especially variations on "Mrs Tara","gay Margate", "nude Margate", "plumbing problems"...
xx
Richard Ken mrs tp I frankly believe little of what the statistics say, but thought it interesting to publish them, my own opinion being that if you are a person who reads local blogs you probably read all of them.
ReplyDeleteCertainly my customers talk about them a lot, but the secondhand book buying public is a very small proportion of the population that tends to be computer literate.