I enjoyed a very busy September 2019 around here. This in several senses. For one, I had a posting every day through September. This is a state I sometimes achieve during A-to-Z months. This time around I’m helped by making two days of the week “Exploiting My Archives” posts. All they do is point to older posts. But that still counts as a new post. And I continue to believe without checking that the number of times I post is the one thing within my control that affects my readership. So let’s dig in to the details of that readership, mm? Thanks.
69 countries or country-like polities sent me readers in September. That’s up from the 65 of August and 64 of July. 19 of these were single-page-view countries. That’s up from the 17 of the past two months. Which countries were these all?
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 1,416 |
| Philippines | 164 |
| India | 162 |
| United Kingdom | 149 |
| Canada | 94 |
| Australia | 51 |
| Singapore | 46 |
| Sweden | 31 |
| Germany | 25 |
| Ireland | 21 |
| Denmark | 18 |
| Russia | 17 |
| Belgium | 16 |
| Finland | 16 |
| France | 16 |
| Italy | 9 |
| Japan | 9 |
| Norway | 9 |
| Pakistan | 9 |
| South Africa | 9 |
| Jamaica | 8 |
| New Zealand | 8 |
| Poland | 8 |
| Spain | 8 |
| Switzerland | 8 |
| United Arab Emirates | 7 |
| Brazil | 6 |
| European Union | 6 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 6 |
| Israel | 6 |
| Malaysia | 6 |
| Slovenia | 6 |
| Mexico | 5 |
| Taiwan | 5 |
| Thailand | 5 |
| Greece | 4 |
| Austria | 3 |
| China | 3 |
| Czech Republic | 3 |
| Netherlands | 3 |
| Serbia | 3 |
| South Korea | 3 |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 3 |
| Turkey | 3 |
| American Samoa | 2 |
| Belize | 2 |
| Ghana | 2 |
| Indonesia | 2 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 |
| Argentina | 1 |
| Bolivia | 1 |
| Colombia | 1 |
| Costa Rica | 1 |
| Curaçao | 1 |
| Faroe Islands | 1 |
| Hungary | 1 (*) |
| Iceland | 1 |
| Iraq | 1 |
| Jordan | 1 |
| Maldives | 1 |
| Nigeria | 1 |
| Portugal | 1 (*) |
| Puerto Rico | 1 |
| Romania | 1 |
| Ukraine | 1 (*) |
| Uzbekistan | 1 |
| Vietnam | 1 (****) |
| Zambia | 1 |
Hungary, Portugal, and Ukraine had a single page view in August too. Vietnam has settled for one page view a month for five months now. Yes, I’d love to know what the post is.
It’s another month in a row that the Philippines have sent me the second-greatest number of page views. I don’t know why. I’m curious if, like, some teacher found I had a good reference for something and a couple classes have gone looking that up reliably.
But if I were to guess what anyone was reading? Well, 296 pages besides my home page got at least one page view in September. 172 of them got more than one page view. 37 got at least ten views. The most popular pieces? That selection slightly defied my expectations.
- My 2019 Mathematics A To Z: Buffon’s Needle
- I Ask For The First Topics For My Fall 2019 Mathematics A-To-Z
- My 2019 Mathematics A To Z: Abacus
- A Venn Diagram of the Real Number System
- How Many Grooves Are On A Record’s Side?
It’s the first time a Reading the Comics post hasn’t made the top five since, well, August. The first Reading the Comics post to appear was in ninth place, though. At least record grooves and the real number system diagram are staying popular.
So this was a popular month around here, as mentioned. I logged 2,444 page views from 1,387 unique visitors. This is well above the twelve-month running average of 1363.9 views from 845.9 unique visitors. Both figures are my new record highs. And the views-per-visitor average of 1.76 is the highest I’ve logged since November of 2018.
There were 110 things given likes in September, nearly double the twelve-month running average of 64.0. And there were 36 comments, again nearly double the twelve-month running average of 21.1. Which, combined with the fact there were 30 posts, more than double the twelve-month running average of 14.2 in the month, implies …
Well, if we look at things per post, the implication is clear: daily is too much me. There were 81.5 views per posting, compared to the running average of 99.6. There were 46.2 unique visitors per posting, compared to the running average of 63.1. 3.7 likes per posting, compared to the 4.6 running average. 1.2 comments per posting, below the average of 1.4. It does suggest that while posting a lot is good, posting every day is not. Or at least it’s not necessary, if I want to maximize views per posting.
As of the start of October I’d published 122 things this year, for a total of 115,143 words. This was 27,695 words published in September. That’s an average of 923.2 words per post in September, still somehow below the 944 average words per post all this year. I credit the “Exploiting my Archives” posts, which are a couple of sentences each.
From the start of the blog to the start of October 2019 I’d posted 1,324 things. This collected 85,194 page views in total, from 44,139 logged unique visitors.
And I had a new record busiest day. The 6th of September saw 249 page views from 162 unique visitors. I have to suspect that I got mentioned in some online forum.
I do expect to keep publishing at least one Reading the Comics post each week. I also should continue the Fall 2019 A-to-Z, which has settled into a Tuesday and Thursday posting.
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