Yes, I feel a bit weird looking at the past month’s readership this early in the month too. I was tempted to go back and look at March’s figures all over again just so I stay tardy. But, no sense putting it off further, especially as I’m thinking to over-commit myself again already.
In April I managed to publish 15 things. This amazes me given that my spirits are about like everyone’s spirits are. I did not repeat having 2,000 readers this past month. But it came surprisingly close. Here’s a look at the readership figures.
There were 1,959 pages viewed over the course of April. This is a bit under the twelve-month running average of 2,127.1. But I’m going to be under the twelve-month running average at least until that October 2019 spike fades into the background. I’m all right with that. There were 1,314 unique visitors, which again is under the running average of 1,440.2 unique visitors in a month.
The measures that I think of as showing engagement were poor, as they usually are. There were nine comments received over the month, down from the 15.3 average. More surprisingly there were only 44 likes given over the month, noticeably below the 60.4 average.
Everything looks a bit better when pro-rated per posting. The 130.6 views per posting are above even the twelve-month average for that of 120.8 views per posting. The 87.6 unique visitors per posting beats the average of 81.1. It’s still 0.6 comments per posting, below the average of 1.0. And only 2.9 likes per posting, below the average of 3.8. Can’t have everything, I suppose. But I may be doing something to affect that pattern.
There were, counting my home page, 265 postings that got any kind of views in April. That’s up from the 255 of March and 210 of February. 134 of them got more than one view, down from March’s 145 but up from February’s 108. 36 of them got at least ten views, compared to 35 in March and 25 in February. And what got the most page views? About what you’d expect:
- How Many Grooves Are On A Record’s Side? which will always be my most popular thing.
- The Playful Math Education Blog Carnival #136 which was March’s bit of overcommitting, it turns out, but includes a bundle of intersting things to look at.
- A Venn Diagram of the Real Number System which is not actually a Venn Diagram.
- How Many Trapezoids I Can Draw and boy is it going to spoil things if I ever think of a seventh trapezoid.
- How Two Trapezoids Make This Simpler in figuring out the area of one. I swear, two trapezoids does make it easier.
The most popular thing I published in April was Rjlipton’s thoughts on the possible ABC Conjecture proof, which is pretty good performance for a post that just says someone else wrote a thing. I don’t know why my headsup posts like that are so reliably popular. But I suppose if people trust my judgement about stuff that’s almost as good as people trusting my prose.
73 countries or country-like things sent me readers in April. 12 of them were single-view countries. This is down from the 78 countries in March, but up from the 67 in February. There had been 30 single-view countries in March and 19 in February, so I guess people are doing more archive-reading, though. Here’s the details for that:
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 1,160 |
| Canada | 128 |
| India | 105 |
| United Kingdom | 102 |
| Australia | 34 |
| Singapore | 31 |
| Germany | 29 |
| Poland | 21 |
| Romania | 21 |
| Austria | 15 |
| Brazil | 15 |
| Philippines | 15 |
| Finland | 14 |
| Netherlands | 14 |
| China | 13 |
| Italy | 13 |
| Ireland | 12 |
| Kazakhstan | 10 |
| South Korea | 10 |
| Thailand | 10 |
| American Samoa | 9 |
| Japan | 9 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 |
| South Africa | 9 |
| France | 8 |
| Spain | 8 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 7 |
| United Arab Emirates | 7 |
| Albania | 6 |
| Belgium | 6 |
| Indonesia | 6 |
| Portugal | 6 |
| Turkey | 6 |
| Kenya | 5 |
| Israel | 4 |
| Malaysia | 4 |
| Slovenia | 4 |
| Sweden | 4 |
| Switzerland | 4 |
| Argentina | 3 |
| Croatia | 3 |
| Egypt | 3 |
| European Union | 3 |
| Greece | 3 |
| New Zealand | 3 |
| Russia | 3 |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 3 |
| Uruguay | 3 |
| Vietnam | 3 |
| Bangladesh | 2 |
| Czech Republic | 2 |
| Denmark | 2 |
| Dominican Republic | 2 |
| Estonia | 2 |
| Greenland | 2 |
| Mexico | 2 |
| Norway | 2 |
| Peru | 2 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 |
| Serbia | 2 |
| Taiwan | 2 |
| Bahrain | 1 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 1 |
| Hungary | 1 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 |
| Lithuania | 1 (**) |
| Malawi | 1 |
| Nigeria | 1 |
| Pakistan | 1 |
| Seychelles | 1 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 |
| St. Lucia | 1 |
Lithuania has given me a single view each of the last three months. No other countries are on a similar streak.
WordPress says I published a mere 8,566 words in April. That’s my most laconic month since January. With 15 posts, that gives me an average of just under 571.1 words per posting, which is my shortest of the year. It brings my average words per posting for the year down to 691; it had been 721 at the start of April. As of the start of May I’d published 50 posts and 34,536 words since the start of the year.
As of the start of May I’ve posted 1,454 pieces altogether. They’ve drawn 104,439 views from 57,501 acknowledged unique visitors.
I’d be glad, always, to have you as a regular reader. You can put this blog in your WordPress reader by using the “Follow Nebusresearch” button on the upper right corner of the page. If you prefer to use an RSS reader, the feed is available to you. If you don’t have an RSS reader, you can get one as your friends page with a free Dreamwidth or Livejournal account. And, excitingly, my Twitter account @Nebusj has resumed working. I’ll maybe even get back into the habit of using it. I am also on the mathematics-themed Mastodon instance @nebusj@mathstodon.xyz, and trying to figure a good habit for that. We are all on journeys of discovering our new habits, though.
Thank you for reading this. I hope you read more, and maybe comment some. Please take care.
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