July was a slightly better-read month around here than June was. I expected that. There weren’t any more posts in July — 13 both months — but the run-up to an A-to-Z sequence usually draws in readers. Not so many as might have been. I didn’t break back above the 1,000 threshold. But there were 911 page views from 568 distinct visitors, according to WordPress. In June there were 878 page views from only 542 visitors. May saw 1,029 page views from 662 visitors and I anticipate that August should be closer to that.
The biggest measure of how engaged readers were rose dramatically. There were 45 comments posted here over the month. In June there were a meager 13 comments, and in May only eight. Asking questions that demand answers, and that hold out the prospect of making me do stuff, seems to be the trick. The number of likes rose less dramatically, with 118 things liked around here. In June there were only 99 likess; in May, 78. This isn’t like the peaks of the Summer 2015 A To Z (518 Likes in June!), but we’ll see what happens.
The most popular posts in July were the usual mix of Reading the Comics posts, the number of grooves on a record, and A To Z publicity:
- How Many Grooves Are On A Record’s Side? Taking another month on top of the list here.
- What Would You Like In The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z? People like to ask me stuff. I should work that out somehow.
- Reading the Comics, June 26, 2017: Deluge Edition, Part 1, as I go over something like twice my usual complement of strips. Apparently people like volume? I suppose I can’t blame them.
- Reading the Comics, July 15, 2017: Dawn Of Mathematics Jokes, which includes at least three comic strips more than fifty years old.
- A Listing Of Mathematics Subjects I Have Covered In A To Z Sequences Of The Past, This is going to be so useful to me in the future.
There were 60 countries sending me readers in July, up from 52 in June and in May. In a twist, the United States sent the greatest number of them:
| Country | Views |
|---|---|
| United States | 466 |
| Philippines | 59 |
| United Kingdom | 57 |
| Canada | 45 |
| India | 35 |
| Singapore | 32 |
| Austria | 31 |
| France | 16 |
| Australia | 15 |
| Brazil | 14 |
| Germany | 12 |
| Spain | 12 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 8 |
| Italy | 7 |
| Puerto Rico | 7 |
| Argentina | 6 |
| South Africa | 6 |
| Belgium | 5 |
| Netherlands | 4 |
| Norway | 4 |
| Russia | 4 |
| Sweden | 4 |
| Switzerland | 4 |
| Chile | 3 |
| Indonesia | 3 |
| Nigeria | 3 |
| Slovakia | 3 |
| Colombia | 2 |
| Czech Republic | 2 |
| Denmark | 2 |
| Estonia | 2 |
| Lebanon | 2 |
| Malaysia | 2 |
| New Zealand | 2 |
| Pakistan | 2 |
| Poland | 2 |
| Thailand | 2 |
| Turkey | 2 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 |
| Bangladesh | 1 |
| Belarus | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 1 |
| Cambodia | 1 |
| Cape Verde | 1 |
| Costa Rica | 1 |
| European Union | 1 |
| Hungary | 1 (*) |
| Israel | 1 |
| Japan | 1 (**) |
| Kazakhstan | 1 |
| Latvia | 1 |
| Mexico | 1 (*) |
| Oman | 1 |
| Paraguay | 1 |
| Romania | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| Serbia | 1 |
| South Korea | 1 |
| Ukraine | 1 (**) |
| Vietnam | 1 |
There were 20 single-reader countries, up from 16 in June and down from May’s 21. Hungary and Mexico were single-reader countries the previous month. Japan and Ukraine have been single-reader countries three months running now. I’ve lost my monthly lone Portuguese reader. I hope she’s well and just busy with other projects. Still don’t know what “European Union” means in this context.
The most popular day for reading was Monday, with 19 percent of page views coming in then. Why? Good question. In June it had been Sunday, with 18 percent. In May it was Sunday, with 16 percent. This is probably a meaningless flutter. The most popular hour was, again 4 pm, when 19 percent of page views came. 4 pm Greenwich Time is when I set most stuff to appear so I understand that being a trendy hour. In June the 4 pm hour got 14 percent of my page views.
August started with the blog having 51,034 page views from 23,322 distinct viewers that WordPress will admit to. And it lists me as having 676 followers on WordPress, up from the start of July’s triangular-number (thanks, IvaSally!) 666. If you’d like this blog to appear in your wordPress reader, please use the little blue strip labelled “Follow nebusresearch” which should appear in the upper-right corner of the page. If following by e-mail is more your thing, there’s a strip labelled “Follow Blog Via E-mail” that you can use. I have finally looked up how to make that e-mail instead of “email”. It required my trying. I’m also on Twitter, as @Nebusj. And I support a humor blog as well, a nice cozy little thing that includes useful bits of information like quick summaries of the current story comics so you can avoid sounding uninformed about the plot twists of Alley Oop. It’s a need which I can fill.
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