And after reaching 20,000 views on the final day of December, 2014, could I reach 21,000 views by the end of January? Probably I could have, but in point of fact I did not. I am not complaining, though: I finished the month with 20,956 page views all told, after a record 944 pages got viewed by somebody, somewhere, for some reason. This is a record high for me, going well past the 831 that had been the January 2013 and December 2014 (tied) record. And likely I’ll reach 21,000 in the next couple days anyway.
According to WordPress, this was read by 438 distinct visitors, reading 2.16 views per visitor on average. That isn’t quite a record: January 2013 remains my high count for visitors, at 473, but it’s still, all told, some pretty nice numbers especially considering I don’t think I had my best month of blog-writing. I can’t wait to get some interesting new topics in here for February and see that they interest absolutely nobody.
The new WordPress statistics page is still awful, don’t get me wrong, but it has been getting a little bit better, and it does offer some new data I couldn’t gather easily before. Among them: that in January 205 I received 197 likes overall — a high for the past twelvemonth, which is as far as I can figure out how to get it, and up from 128 in December — and 51 comments, up from December 29, and also a high for the twelvemonth.
The three countries sending me viewers were, once again, the big three of the United States (594), Canada (56), and the United Kingdom (52), with Austria sending in 32 viewers, and Germany and Argentina ending 22 each. And India, for a wonder sent me a noticeable-to-me 18 readers, although on a per capita basis that still isn’t very many, I admit.
There was a bumper crop of single-reader countries, though, up from last month’s six: Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Libya, Mexico, Paraguay, Slovakia, and the United Arab Emirates each found only one person viewing anything around here. Greece and Mexico are repeats from December.
This month’s most popular articles were mostly comic strip posts, although they were a pretty popular set; none of these had fewer than 35 views per, which feels high to me. The top posts of the last 30 days, then, were:
- Reading the Comics, January 6, 2015: First of the Year Edition, in which I included drawing a sloppy `2′ as a snoring `Z’ as somehow connected to mathematics.
- Reading the Comics, January 24, 2015: Many, But Not Complicated Edition, which includes an explanation for why margins of errors on surveys are always like three or four percent.
- Reading the Comics, January 11, 2015: Standard Genres And Bloom County Edition, in which I reveal my best guess for Jon Bon Jovi’s shorts size in the late 80s.
- 20,000: My Math Blog’s Statistics, because my narcissism is apparently quite popular?
- Reading the Comics, January 17, 2015: Finding Your Place Edition, where, again, I can flog that thing about a watch as a compass.
- How Many Trapezoids I Can Draw, which also reveals how many trapeziums I think are different in interesting ways.
- A bit more about Thomas Hobbes, and his attempt to redefine the very nature of mathematics, which didn’t succeed in quite the way he wanted.
Among the interesting search terms that brought people here the past month have been ([sic] on all of them):
- science fiction and trapazoids (Somebody should totally write the definitive SFnal treatment of trapezoids, I agree.)
- food. stotagre nebus (I feel strangely threatened by this.)
- a group of student offer at least one of mathematics,physics, and statistcs , 14 of them offer mathematics, 12 offer physics,and 16 offer statistics.7 offer statistics and maths 6 offer maths and physics, 4 offer physics and statistics only, while 5 offer all the three subject (Help?)
- hiw to draw diffrent trameziums
- soglow otto radio (Pretty sure I used to listen to that back on WRSU in my undergrad days.)
- if a calendar has two consecutive months with friday the 13th which would they be (February and March, in a non-bissextile — that is, non-leap — year)
- how to measure a christmas tree made of triangles and trapeziums (I would use a tape measure, myself)
So if I would summarize January 2015 in my readership here, I would say: tramezium?
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Now you need to take all those search terms and make one blog post with the terms as the title! 😄
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You’re right! Oh, how did I overlook that?
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I don’t look into my stats page too much. I suppose I should. I might learn something. Mostly I see how people landed on my site (search terms, links from other sites, etc.). I think that can be helpful to know, though some of the search terms are bizarre. Last week I got “feet facebook.” Yeeaaah, not sure what to even make of that one…
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I feel like if I could just read the right statistics I’d have a perfect understanding of how to find the audience that would most appreciate my writing, and that would most thrill me to write for, but I just don’t know how to turn the information I have into something useful, like, “here, write about the goldfish pond more, and post something about it every Wednesday morning”.
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