I didn’t forget about reviewing my last month’s readership statistics. I just ran short on time to gather and publish results is all. But now there’s an hour or so free to review that WordPress says my readership was like in November and I can see what was going on.
Well.
So, that was a bit disappointing. The start of an A To Z Glossary usually sees a pretty good bump in my readership. The steady publishing of a diverse set of articles usually helps. My busiest months have always been ones with an A To Z series going on. This November, though, there were 923 page views around here, from 575 distinct visitors. That’s up from October, with 907 page views and 536 distinct visitors. But it’s the same as September’s 922 page views from 575 distinct visitors. I blame the US presidential election. I don’t think it’s just that everyone I can still speak to was depressed by it. My weekly readership the two weeks after the election were about three-quarters that of the week before or the last two weeks of November. I’d be curious what other people saw. My humor blog didn’t see as severe a crash the week of the 14th, though.
Well, the people who were around liked what they saw. There were 157 pages liked in November, up from 115 in September and October. That’s lower than what June and July, with Theorem Thursdays posts, had, and below what the A To Z in March and April drew. But it’s up still. Comments were similarly up, to 35 in November from October’s 24 and September’s 20. That’s up to around what Theorem Thursdays attracted.
December starts with my mathematics blog having had 43,145 page views from a reported 18,022 distinct viewers. And it had 636 WordPress.com followers. You can be among them by clicking the “Follow” button on the upper right corner. It’s up from the 626 WordPress.com followers I had at the start of November. That’s not too bad, considering.
I had a couple of perennial favorites among the most popular articles in November:
- How Many Grooves Are On A Record’s Side? which has the answer you know right away and the answer that’s interesting;
- How Many Trapezoids I Can Draw which is still six;
- The End 2016 Mathematics A To Z: Algebra which I’m not surprised people found interesting;
- The End 2016 Mathematics A To Z: Boundary Value Problems which I am surprised people found interesting. Apparently there’s a cry for pop partial diff eq stuff; and finally,
- A Thanksgiving Thought Fresh From The Shower a probability question I finally answered in early December.
This is the first time I can remember that a Reading The Comics post didn’t make the top five.
Sundays are the most popular days for reading posts here. 18 percent of page views come that day. I suppose that’s because I have settled on Sunday as a day to reliably post Reading the Comics essays. The most popular hour is 6 pm, which drew 11 percent of page views. In October Sundays were the most popular day, with 18 percent of page views. 6 pm as the most popular hour, but then it drew 14 percent of page views. Same as September. I don’t know why 6 pm is so special.
As ever there wasn’t any search term poetry. But there were some good searches, including:
- how many different ways can you draw a trapizium
- comics back ground of the big bang nucleosynthesis
- why cramer’s rule sucks (well, it kinda does)
- oliver twist comic strip digarm
- work standard approach sample comics
- what is big bang nucleusynthesis comics strip
I don’t understand the Oliver Twist or the nucleosynthesis stuff.
And now the roster of countries and their readership, which for some reason is always popular:
| Country | Page Views |
|---|---|
| United States | 534 |
| United Kingdom | 78 |
| India | 36 |
| Canada | 33 |
| Philippines | 22 |
| Germany | 21 |
| Austria | 18 |
| Puerto Rico | 17 |
| Slovenia | 14 |
| Singapore | 13 |
| France | 12 |
| Sweden | 8 |
| Spain | 8 |
| New Zealand | 7 |
| Australia | 6 |
| Israel | 6 |
| Pakistan | 5 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 4 |
| Portugal | 4 |
| Belgium | 3 |
| Colombia | 3 |
| Netherlands | 3 |
| Norway | 3 |
| Serbia | 3 |
| Thailand | 3 |
| Brazil | 2 |
| Croatia | 2 |
| Finland | 2 |
| Malaysia | 2 |
| Poland | 2 |
| Switzerland | 2 |
| Argentina | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 1 |
| Cameroon | 1 |
| Cyprus | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 1 (***) |
| Denmark | 1 |
| Japan | 1 (*) |
| Lithuania | 1 |
| Macedonia | 1 |
| Mexico | 1 (*) |
| Russia | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 (*) |
| South Africa | 1 (*) |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 (*) |
| Vietnam | 1 |
That’s 46 countries, the same as last month. 15 of them were single-reader countries; there were 20 single-reader countries in October. Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates have been single-reader countries for two months running. Czech has been one for four months.
Always happy to see Singapore reading me (I taught there for several years). The “European Union” listing seems to have vanished, here and on my humor blog. I’m sure that doesn’t signal anything ominous at all.
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