It was a less riotously popular month here in February than it was in January. I’d like to blame the shortness of February, but that isn’t it. I know. I’ve got statistics.
The big one that I worry excessively over: total page views. 1,062 of them in February, down from January’s 1,274 but up from December 2017’s 899. And hey, anything above a thousand feels gratifying enough. The count of unique visitors dropped to 611. It had been at 670 in January, but then it was at 599 in December. I’m working on stuff that might affect this. We’ll see. I’d wondered if the readership drop might entirely represent February being such a short month. But WordPress’s insights page lets me know the average number of pages viewed per day. 41 in January (part of a three-way tie for third-highest, alongside September 2017 and November 2015). 38 in February. Still, not bad for a month that went by without a major overarching theme to pull people back in.
It was still a pretty likable month: 102 things clicked on over the course of the month. Down from January’s 112, but still, well ahead of December’s 71. It’s still in the range of liked-essays that I haven’t seen since the last A To Z project. There were 30 comments, once more down from January’s total (39) but up from December’s (24). It seems obvious that all these three data points should track together, although I’ve never tested that and maybe I could have some fun rambling about curve-fitting with it.
Oh, for the one data point wholly within my control: I posted 13 things in February. 14 in January. 11 in December, which was an awful month. (We haven’t found our next rabbit yet. I’ve been gently calling this one rescue every couple days to mention how the person fostering a Flemish Giant we find appealing hasn’t called us back to set a time when we might meet. I have a suspicion the person fostering has decided to quietly adopt the rabbit. And that’s fine, but not being told that gets in the emotional way of looking elsewhere.)
So what all was popular? … Pretty much what I would have guessed without knowing anything about the month:
- How Many Grooves Are On A Record’s Side?
- How Many Trapezoids I Can Draw
- There’s Technically Still Time To Buy A Theorem For Valentine’s Day
- Reading the Comics, February 7, 2018: Not Taking Algebra Too Seriously Edition
- Reading the Comics, February 10, 2018: I Meant To Post This Thursday Edition
I’m kind of seriously thinking to take some time off this month and just improve the graphics of the Record Grooves and the Trapezoids articles. And I’m always tickled when what amounts to a self-reblog, like the buy-a-theorem post, comes out more popular than the original post it references. I’m also thinking about setting some day aside to just reblog something from my archives.
What countries sent me readers? This bunch, says WordPress.
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 703 |
| Canada | 47 |
| United Kingdom | 44 |
| India | 42 |
| Philippines | 42 |
| Australia | 14 |
| Sweden | 14 |
| Singapore | 12 |
| France | 9 |
| Germany | 9 |
| Mexico | 8 |
| Pakistan | 8 |
| Brazil | 6 |
| Puerto Rico | 6 |
| Slovenia | 6 |
| Netherlands | 5 |
| Turkey | 5 |
| Algeria | 4 |
| Hungary | 4 |
| Italy | 4 |
| Spain | 4 |
| Bulgaria | 3 |
| Finland | 3 |
| Greece | 3 |
| Indonesia | 3 |
| Nepal | 3 |
| New Zealand | 3 |
| Portugal | 3 |
| South Africa | 3 |
| Switzerland | 3 |
| Belgium | 2 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 2 |
| Japan | 2 |
| Mongolia | 2 |
| Romania | 2 |
| South Korea | 2 |
| Taiwan | 2 |
| Uruguay | 2 |
| Bahamas | 1 |
| Bangladesh | 1 |
| Barbados | 1 |
| Costa Rica | 1 |
| Cyprus | 1 |
| Denmark | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| European Union | 1 |
| Ireland | 1 (*) |
| Israel | 1 |
| Kenya | 1 |
| Lebanon | 1 |
| Mozambique | 1 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Russia | 1 (**) |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 |
That’s 54 countries altogether, if we don’t ask serious questions about the European Union and, for that matter, Hong Kong or Puerto Rico. There’d been 50 countries give or take in January, and 53 in December. There were 16 single-reader countries in February, up from the 14 in January and 15 in December. Ireland was a single-reader country in January too. Russia’s been a single-reader country two months running. And otherwise there’s been a turnover in single-readership countries.
The Insights panel says March started with 58,654 page views here, from an admitted 27,772 unique viewers and aw, isn’t that sweet number? The insights panel is also threatening to ruin me as a person by giving me some new interesting year-to-date statistics. According to these, as of the 5th of March (I didn’t have the chance to check on the 1st, and I don’t know how to find a year-to-specified date) I’ve published 25,359 total words, at an average 845 words per post. 30 posts to date for the year. 207 total likes, 77 total comments. And an average of 2.6 comments and 6.9 likes per post. I just know I’m going to obsess on these, what with how they’re numbers that have decimal points. But this is way more interesting than tracking the most popular day and hour.
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Sounds like it is going well :)
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Yeah, overall, I suppose that it is, come to it.
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