Didn’t think I’d forget to post my readership review, did you? I just ran out of good posting slots for it last week, as I didn’t want to put off my return to Why Stuff Can Orbit more.
So, my page views dropped back below a thousand for the month. I knew it would happen sooner or later. It just barely missed a thousand, too: WordPress says I had 994 pages viewed over the month. It’s not significantly different to March’s 1,026, although given that I posted one more thing over the month than I did the previous month it hurts. At its rate I’d have had 1,027.1 views were April a 31-day month. That sort of excuse won’t fly; in so-short February there were 1,063 page views here. I’m just in a thousand-view groove right now.
The number of distinct visitors was technically down, but I can’t say it’s by anything significant. There were 696 visitors in April, down from 699 in March, and up from 680 in February. That’s no difference at all.
The number of likes were up slightly, to 90 in April. There had been 85 in March and 77 in February. There’s no disapproving of that trend, although as happened on my humor blog I noticed the long-term trend and realized my likability peaked sometime around June of 2015. That was the month of my first-ever A To Z project, but I’m surprised to not have had anything near that peak (518 likes!) since.
Comments were flat again, 16 for April. There were 15 in March and 18 in February. I’m going to screw up my month-to-month comparisons again. I’m switching my links to previous posts back to the way that gets counted as a comment. So I’ll lose track of how often people actually say something versus how often I point people to my own writing. And I need to ask more engaging questions anyway.
So what articles were popular here in April? Two perennials, a couple of did-you-read-this bits, and then the answer to a trivia question people sometimes think to ask. Have some fun, if you’re a loyal reader: take your guesses what they are and see if you’re right. I’ll put the answers underneath the Big Geography Table, where I list the countries that sent readers here and how many they sent.
Country | Views |
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United States | 609 |
India | 58 |
United Kingdom | 39 |
Canada | 38 |
Singapore | 29 |
Germany | 24 |
Austria | 18 |
Australia | 17 |
Slovenia | 14 |
Puerto Rico | 11 |
France | 10 |
Romania | 10 |
Sweden | 10 |
Hong Kong SAR China | 9 |
Spain | 8 |
Philippines | 7 |
South Africa | 7 |
Brazil | 6 |
Greece | 6 |
Italy | 6 |
New Zealand | 6 |
Croatia | 4 |
Japan | 4 |
Malaysia | 4 |
Russia | 4 |
Denmark | 3 |
Netherlands | 3 |
Taiwan | 3 |
Belgium | 2 |
Indonesia | 2 |
Ireland | 2 |
Israel | 2 |
Lebanon | 2 |
Poland | 2 |
Turkey | 2 |
Argentina | 1 |
Cyprus | 1 |
Finland | 1 (*) |
Pakistan | 1 |
Portugal | 1 (*) |
South Korea | 1 |
Switzerland | 1 (*) |
Thailand | 1 (*) |
United Arab Emirates | 1 |
Vietnam | 1 (**) |
I’m one of the 7 from South Africa! :D
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Aw, nice to see you! Thanks. I just melt into the many United States readers myself.
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