Oh, yes, so. I did intend to review my readership around here last month. It’s just that things got in the way. Most of them not related to the Covid-19 pandemic; it’s much more been personal matters and my paying job and such. If someone is interested in paying me to observe that I had readers WordPress records as coming merely from the European Union, drop me a note. We can work something out. Heck, slip me ten bucks and I’ll write an essay on any mathematics topic I don’t feel wholly incompetent to discuss. Or wait around for the 2020 Mathematics A-to-Z, coming whenever I do feel up to it.
Also, do please remember that I’m hosting the Playful Math Education Blog Carnival at the end of this month. If you’ve spotted anything on the web — blog, static web site, video, podcast — that enlightened you about some field of mathematics, please let me know. And let me know of your own projects. It’ll be fun.
Now to see what my readership was like back in February, impossibly long ago as that does seem to be.
I posted 11 things in February. January had been 10. There were 1,419 page views in February. That’s just about what January was. It’s below the twelve-month running average of 2,060.3 page views. This looks dire, but it’s about the same as January’s readership. And the twelve-month average does have that anomalous October spike messing things up. If we pretend that October didn’t happen, well, that mean was something like 1460 page views.
There were 991 unique visitors in February. That’s again rather below the twelve-month running average of 1401.1 unique visitors. But again if we pretend there was no October, then the running average was something like 950 unique visitors, so things aren’t all that dire. Just that the occasional taste of popularity spoils you for ages to come.
A mere 36 things got likes here in February, below the running average of 64.1 and I’m not working out what that is with October included. Most of that readership spike didn’t convert to likes or comments anyway. Those were well-liked months but they were also ones that got something posted every single day. There were 12 comments in February, roughly in line with the 13.8 comments running average.
Per post, all these figures look a bit better. There were 129 views per posting, just over the 116.6 running average. There were 90.1 unique visitors per posting, above the running average of 78.6. There were 3.3 likes per posting, below the anemic average of 4.1. There were even 1.1 comments per posting, technically above the average of 0.9. If I could just post something four times per day that October peak would be merely an average month.
The most popular postings in February were mostly the usual suspects. Just one surprised me with its appearance:
- How Many Grooves Are On A Record’s Side?
- How Many Trapezoids I Can Draw
- Only Fractions
- How Two Trapezoids Make This Simpler
- The Difference Of Two Triangles
The most popular thing written in February were two equally-popular Reading the Comics posts, Symbols Edition and 90s Doonesbury Edition.
There were 210 pages that got any views at all in February, close to the 218 of January. 108 of them got more than one view, just about the same as January’s 102. 25 pages got at least ten views. The previous couple months saw 23 and 27 posts that popular.
67 countries or country-like entities sent me any readers at all in February. That’s up from 63 in January and 60 in December. 19 of them were single-view countries, up from January’s 15 and December’s 18. Here’s the roster:
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 851 |
| Philippines | 85 |
| India | 57 |
| Canada | 53 |
| United Kingdom | 41 |
| Germany | 35 |
| Australia | 26 |
| Finland | 23 |
| Singapore | 23 |
| Brazil | 19 |
| Thailand | 14 |
| Denmark | 13 |
| Hungary | 13 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 10 |
| South Africa | 10 |
| Russia | 9 |
| Japan | 8 |
| Netherlands | 8 |
| New Zealand | 8 |
| Vietnam | 8 |
| Mexico | 7 |
| Indonesia | 6 |
| Poland | 6 |
| Malaysia | 5 |
| Belgium | 4 |
| France | 4 |
| Italy | 4 |
| Sweden | 4 |
| Austria | 3 |
| Colombia | 3 |
| Greece | 3 |
| Jamaica | 3 |
| Uganda | 3 |
| Ukraine | 3 |
| Algeria | 2 |
| Azerbaijan | 2 |
| China | 2 |
| Cyprus | 2 |
| Ghana | 2 |
| Israel | 2 |
| Kenya | 2 |
| Nigeria | 2 |
| Portugal | 2 |
| Slovenia | 2 |
| Spain | 2 |
| Switzerland | 2 |
| Turkey | 2 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 |
| American Samoa | 1 (**) |
| Argentina | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 1 |
| Cambodia | 1 (*) |
| Croatia | 1 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| European Union | 1 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| Libya | 1 |
| Lithuania | 1 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 1 |
| Peru | 1 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 (**) |
| Slovakia | 1 (**) |
| South Korea | 1 (*) |
| Sri Lanka | 1 |
| Taiwan | 1 |
Cambodia and South Korea were single-view countries in January also. American Samoa, Saudi Arabia, and Slovakia have been single-view countries for three months.
In February I posted 9,699 words by WordPress’s counter. That’s 881.7 words per posting. For the year my average post, as of the start of the month, was 755.1 words per post. Some months are talky. I had started the month with 100,432 page views, just missing out on being number 100,000 myself. And these came from a logged 54,920 unique visitors. And I had posted a total of 1,424 things from the dawn of time to the 1st of March, which by some strange fluke was itself fifty thousand years ago.
Well, I hope to keep posting and to review March a little closer to the 1st of April, which looks to be about fifty thousand years in the future. To follow along with me, add the feed https://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/feed/ to your RSS reader. If you need an RSS reader, sign up for a free account on Dreamwidth or Livejournal; you can put RSS feeds on your Friends page. Or if you prefer a more old-fashioned way that shows up in my statistics here, use the “Follow Nebusresearch” button at the upper right corner of this page and follow it through your WordPress account. Or follow my fallow @Nebusj account on Twitter where new posts get announced at least. As ever, thank you for reading. Be well, please.
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