Let me now take a moment to review my readership figures for the last past month. I know February is already off to a sluggish start for me as a writer. I’ve had, particularly, my paying job demanding more mental focus than usual. But I got a wonderful crop of comic strips to discuss last week, so that’ll be some nice fun posts to write over the current week.
The month was, in readership, almost a repeat of December 2019. There were 1,436 page views from 951 unique visitors. December saw 1,386 page views from 909 unique visitors. These figures are both well below the twelve-month running average of 2,055.2 page views from 1,393.2 unique visitors. I am going to be filing a lot of reports like that, at least until either the great spike of October 2019 fades into history. Or I get another like it.
There were 34 things liked here in January, down even from December’s figure and about half the twelve-month average of 66.5. There were also seven comments in January, not quite half the twelve-month average of 15.0. But, compared to December’s 0, that’s a great rise.
The per-post figures look generally better. This is because January was a laconic month, with a mere ten posts. And two of them were statistics-review posts. But that gives me 143.6 views per posting, above the average of 114.2. And 95.1 visitors per posting, above the average of 76.6. There were 3.4 likes per posting, below the average of 4.2. And 0.7 comments per posting, a statistic I didn’t need my spreadsheet to calculate. But that’s still below the twelve-month running average of 1.0.
218 pages, including my home page, got any page views in January. There’d been 224 getting such in December. 102 pages got more than one view in January, which is exactly the count that got more than one view in December. This underscores what a duplicate month January was. 23 got at least ten views, down from 27, so that’s a difference finally.
The most popular posts in January included two perennials, that one linear programming post that got linked from somewhere, and one that seems like it must have fit some weird search engine term:
- How Many Grooves Are On A Record’s Side?
- How December 2019 Treated My Mathematics Blog
- How Many Trapezoids I Can Draw
- My 2019 Mathematics A To Z: Linear Programming
- Reading the Comics, January 5, 2019: Start of the Year Edition
Really, though, why would a comics post from January 2019 get back to the top of the pile suddenly?
63 countries sent me any page views at all in January, down from 60 in December and 94 in November. There were 15 single-view countries, down fro 18 the previous month and 24 the month before that. Here’s the roster:
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 847 |
| United Kingdom | 65 |
| Philippines | 60 |
| Canada | 58 |
| India | 47 |
| Germany | 41 |
| Australia | 37 |
| Argentina | 35 |
| Brazil | 22 |
| Singapore | 21 |
| Spain | 19 |
| Finland | 12 |
| Japan | 12 |
| Thailand | 9 |
| Sweden | 8 |
| France | 7 |
| Netherlands | 7 |
| Romania | 7 |
| South Africa | 7 |
| Norway | 6 |
| Greece | 5 |
| Italy | 5 |
| Malaysia | 5 |
| Mexico | 5 |
| Nigeria | 5 |
| Uganda | 5 |
| Austria | 4 |
| Denmark | 4 |
| Guyana | 4 |
| New Zealand | 4 |
| Russia | 4 |
| Costa Rica | 3 |
| Croatia | 3 |
| Hungary | 3 |
| Israel | 3 |
| Lithuania | 3 |
| Poland | 3 |
| Serbia | 3 |
| Switzerland | 3 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 3 |
| Vietnam | 3 |
| Bahrain | 2 |
| Brunei | 2 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 2 |
| Ireland | 2 |
| Pakistan | 2 |
| Taiwan | 2 |
| Turkey | 2 |
| American Samoa | 1 (*) |
| Bangladesh | 1 |
| Belgium | 1 |
| Cambodia | 1 |
| Chile | 1 |
| Ecuador | 1 |
| Indonesia | 1 |
| Panama | 1 |
| Portugal | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 (*) |
| Slovakia | 1 (*) |
| Slovenia | 1 |
| South Korea | 1 |
| Tunisia | 1 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 |
American Samoa, Saudi Arabia, and Slovakia were single-view countries in December. None of these were also single-view countries in November.
In January I published 6,158 words, says WordPress. I don’t know how that counts things like subject lines and image captions. It’s a shame there’s literally no way to find out, ever. But with that spread over ten posts, I have an average of 616 words per posting for the month, and so far for the year. My average post for 2019 was 861 words. This was driven up by things like the A-to-Z sequence.
As of the start of February I’d posted 1,413 things on this blog. They attracted 99,013 views from a recorded 53,928 unique visitors. I’m trying to not watch obsessively as I approach 100,000.
If you’d like to take a chance at being reader number 100,000, please visit this page, or click on the “Follow Nebusresearch” button at the upper right corner of this page. If you don’t care about being reader 100,000, I don’t mind. You can use your RSS reader to watch the https://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/feed/ at your leisure. And my automated-but-lost-to-me Twitter account @Nebusj posts announcements of things as they are published.
Thank you for reading, whatever way you choose to do it.
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