I like to do my monthly recap of my readership, like, at the start of the month. It’s just that between the Carnival, the A-to-Z, Reading the Comics, and my being busy on Friday I didn’t have the time before now. I’d say that it doesn’t matter because these statistics-review posts are mostly for my own entertainment. But I do feel there’s something untidy in my being a week late.
It was a well-read month! My second-most-read month, if I’m not missing something. WordPress reports 1,505 page views, up from August’s 1,421 and July’s 1,058. (The highest I have on record is March’s 1,779 page views.) Third-highest number of unique visitors, as well: 874 of them. August had 913 unique visitors. July a mere 668, but that was a more normal month. (March had 999 unique visitors and yes, it still burns me up that I didn’t have just the one more.)
The number of ‘likes’ around here rose, to 65. Had been 57 in August and 37 in July. That’s still tiny, though, compared to what was normal around here even a year ago (98 in September 2017, and that was down from all of 2016). The number of comments was up, to 36 from August’s 27 and July’s 28. But the number of comments around here is so erratic that I’ve mostly given up on figuring any kind of pattern.
The top most popular articles for September were one perennial, one that I’d have expected to be a perennial (and was the number-two post last month), comics, and the carnival:
- How Many Grooves Are On A Record’s Side?
- A Venn Diagram of the Real Number System
- Reading the Comics, September 11, 2018: 60% Reruns Edition
- Playful Mathematics Education Blog Carnival #121
- My 2018 Mathematics A To Z: Asymptote
I have the suspicion that the Playful Mathematics Education Blog Carnival #121 post will be most popular next month too. And that only my publishing it the last day of September kept it from being on top for that month too.
52 countries sent me any readers at all in August. 16 of them were single-reader countries. The same numbers accurately described countries and single-reader countries for July. And for September? … Here’s the roster.
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 885 |
| Philippines | 149 |
| United Kingdom | 64 |
| India | 63 |
| Canada | 51 |
| Australia | 34 |
| Turkey | 23 |
| Singapore | 22 |
| Germany | 21 |
| Denmark | 16 |
| Slovenia | 16 |
| European Union | 12 |
| France | 8 |
| South Africa | 8 |
| Switzerland | 8 |
| Brazil | 7 |
| Netherlands | 7 |
| Pakistan | 7 |
| Brunei | 6 |
| Kazakhstan | 6 |
| Ghana | 5 |
| Puerto Rico | 5 |
| Russia | 5 |
| Spain | 5 |
| Egypt | 4 |
| Ireland | 4 |
| Malaysia | 4 |
| Sweden | 4 |
| Taiwan | 4 |
| Thailand | 4 |
| Austria | 3 |
| Finland | 3 |
| Morocco | 3 |
| Norway | 3 |
| Poland | 3 |
| South Korea | 3 |
| Belize | 2 |
| Greece | 2 |
| Iceland | 2 |
| Indonesia | 2 |
| Jamaica | 2 |
| Kenya | 2 |
| Mexico | 2 |
| Vietnam | 2 |
| Algeria | 1 |
| Argentina | 1 (*) |
| Belgium | 1 |
| Chile | 1 (*) |
| Colombia | 1 (*) |
| Croatia | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 1 |
| Guam | 1 |
| Israel | 1 |
| Kuwait | 1 |
| New Zealand | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| Slovakia | 1 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 |
So that’s 58 countries total, with only 14 of them single-readers. Argentina, Chile, and Colombia were single-reader countries in August; nobody else was. No countries are on a longer than two-month streak. I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than a hundred readers from the Philippines. Also 12 readers listed as from the European Union, distinct from the countries participating in it, seems unusually many.
According to the Insights panel I’d had 119 posts this year, right before October began. And had gathered 67,885 page views. This would be from a total of 33,475 acknowledged unique visitors. (My blog started before WordPress told us anything about unique visitors.) As of the start of October, there had been 313 total comments. This makes an average of 2.6 comments per post on average. At the start of August there had been 2.6 comments per post on average. But remember that was fifteen fewer posts. At the end of September I’d gotten 696 total likes, for an average of 5.8 likes per post. That’s down from 6.0 at the end of August. By the end of September I’d had a total of 112,648 words posted around here. 15,014 of them were posted in September. Since there were fifteen posts altogether that’s an average of 1000.1 words per post in September. For the year, through the end of September, that’s 946.6 words per post this year. At the end of August that had been 930 words per post. So as ever, my attempts to write more quick, simple, short things that don’t wear me out has failed. And I have the rest of an A to Z to write, too! I’m so doomed.
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