The amazing thing to consider is that anyone had anything to do with my mathematics blog in June. Apart from last month’s review-of-my-readership and a post pointing out some stuff I’d written about counting goldfish, all my posts were Reading the Comics. Those are fine, of course. They’re popular and they keep me writing even when I’m feeling burned out. But they’re also reactive pieces; I feel a certain passivity when I write them. What I’m saying is I’m gathering the energies to do a new A To Z sequence and so I’ll be bothering my art supplier soon for some fresh banners and the like.
So in June 2019 I posted nine things, my lowest in a long while. I’m of the unshakable belief that the number of things I post is the biggest factor I can control regarding how much anyone reads my writings. So how did that affect my readership?
911 page views for June, from a reported 595 unique visitors. This is down from May’s 981 page views and 721 visitors for ten posts. And April’s 1,020 views and 668 visitors for twelve posts. This actually implies a slightly improved view-per-post ratio as I publish less stuff. I think this is an artifact of my having a couple things in the back catalogue that always get read, though, regardless of any new material I have.
Still, this is appreciably below the twelve-month average of 1344.4 views. And way below the twelve-month average of 829.6 unique visitors. It’s a bit above the mean views-per-post, at least. Also the mean viewers-per-post. That’s, again, probably an artifact of older posts.
Because, after all, look at what the most popular posts were in June. This includes a three-way-tie for the fifth-most-popular post:
- How Many Grooves Are On A Record’s Side?
- How Two Trapezoids Make This Simpler
- A Venn Diagram of the Real Number System
- Reading the Comics, June 15, 2019: School Is Out? Edition
- Solving The Price Is Right’s “Any Number” Game
- Reading the Comics, May 30, 2019: Catching Out Tiger Mode
- How Many Trapezoids I Can Draw
There were 40 ‘likes’ given in June, down from May’s 43 and back to April’s 40. It’s below the twelve-month average of 66.8, though. It’s even below the twelve-month average of likes-per-posting, too. There were eleven comments in June, under May’s twelve and April’s 14. The twelve-month average is 24.7, so, there we go. At least an A To Z offering typically gets people eager to suggest topics.
Incidentally there were 158 posts that got at least one view in June. This apart from the front page which is what the greatest number of people or people-like Internet objects look at. There were 163 posts that got at least one view in May.
54 countries or things like countries. 61 did in May. In June? 57. So that all seems to be holding steady. There were 17 single-reader countries in June, one more than in April and in May. Which all countries were they? These all:
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 551 |
| India | 50 |
| Philippines | 39 |
| United Kingdom | 38 |
| Canada | 30 |
| Australia | 16 |
| Germany | 14 |
| Netherlands | 14 |
| Singapore | 11 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 10 |
| Brazil | 9 |
| Malaysia | 9 |
| France | 7 |
| Italy | 7 |
| Finland | 6 |
| Spain | 6 |
| Sweden | 6 |
| Switzerland | 6 |
| Denmark | 5 |
| Norway | 5 |
| Pakistan | 5 |
| South Africa | 5 |
| Japan | 4 |
| Nepal | 4 |
| Estonia | 3 |
| Indonesia | 3 |
| New Zealand | 3 |
| Poland | 3 |
| Puerto Rico | 3 |
| Greece | 2 |
| Guam | 2 |
| Hungary | 2 |
| Ireland | 2 |
| Mexico | 2 |
| Peru | 2 |
| Portugal | 2 |
| Russia | 2 |
| Slovenia | 2 |
| Turkey | 2 |
| Ukraine | 2 |
| Argentina | 1 |
| Bangladesh | 1 (*) |
| Belize | 1 |
| Bermuda | 1 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | 1 |
| Chile | 1 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| Iraq | 1 |
| Israel | 1 |
| Mongolia | 1 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 |
| Taiwan | 1 (*) |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| Venezuela | 1 |
| Vietnam | 1 (*) |
Bangladesh, Taiwan, and Venezuela were single-reader countries in May. No other place is on a single-reader streak like that. I seem to be back to being ignored by Scandinavian countries.
The start of July saw my having made 68 posts here this year, for a collective 67,452 words. This is an average of 992 words per post. This was 9,581 words in June. I’m averaging, so far this year, 992 words per post. At the start of June my average was 981 words per post. My average was 953 words per post at the start of May. I, too, would be interested when this implies my average post will exceed all finite numbers of words. I’m not figuring that mess out.
Through the start of July there’ve been a total of 304 likes, an average of 4.5 likes per posting this year. That’s the same number of average likes per posting as the last two months had seen. There were a total of 105 comments recorded, an average of 1.5 comments per posting, once again the same as at the start of June and of May. This means the Insight panel tells me there were 14 comments on the month, while the statistics panel claims there were 11. There was a similar discrepancy in May, when one panel claimed I had 17 comments and another claimed 12. I think this has to reflect pingbacks, one post referencing another.
As of the start of July I’ve posted 1,270 items to this blog. They’ve attracted a total 79,855 page views — I just passed 80,000 hours ago — from 40,879 acknowledged unique visitors. There are probably more unique visitors, but WordPress did not gather those statistics for us the first years of this blog.
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