I was really hoping to find an infographic template, but apparently all the templates you can download are Adobe Illustrator which I don’t know how to use 🙁 The photo to the right is what I was hoping to do, but nope no go. Maybe I’ll learn it by this time next year!
Instead you get a bunch of numbers in a not pretty post. I’ve broken it up into two different parts – stats from this past year and stats from since I started the blog. Some of them are guestimates, but a lot are facts found in the fun stats feature of WordPress. Basically you all rock! I would blog regardless of whether or not I had readers, but when I actually take the time to look at the stats I’m overwhelmed, so really all I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you!
JULY 2013 – JULY 2014
Views: 22,2112
Visitors: 13,772
- Visitors from 142 Countries
- Top Five: United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India
- One visitor from each: Andorra, Belize, Bolivia, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Iceland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Montenegro, Myanmar, Oman, Senegal, Sierra Leone, United Republic of Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia.
Posts:
- Top Viewed AND posted in 2014
- Book 31: An Unquiet Mind – Kay Redfield Jamison (380 views)
- The Willpower Instinct Project – Week 4 (83 views)
- 30 Before 30 (30 x 30) (75 views)
- Book 23: The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (70 views)
- Book 6: The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles (69 views)
- Top Viewed and Posted ANY Time
- Book 37: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot (1,797 views – Originally posted: July 5, 2012)
- Book 6: A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin (462 views – Originally posted: February 1, 2012)
- Book 31: An Unquiet Mind – Kay Redfield Jamison (380 views – Originally posted: May 16, 2014)
- Book 22: Bastard Out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison (378 views – Originally posted: July 11, 2011)
- Book 36: The Absolutist – John Boyne (327 views – Originally posted: July 3, 2012)
Referrers:
- Classics Club Blog
- Between the Covers – Thanks Heather!
- Goodreads
- Doesn’t include generic search engines, with over 12,000 referrers!
Search Terms: I combined multiple instances so if it was the author and a title in the top page or so, I combined them; same thing with misspellings of titles and major characters.
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Quotes
- Reinaldo Arenas/Before Night Falls Quotes
- Two Year Anniversary Quotes
- The Well of Loneliness Quotes
- John Boyne Gay
Most Viewed Day: December 4, 2013: 340 – No clue why, but I posted my review of TBM‘s Marionette that day.
JULY 2010 – JULY 2014
Views: 57,421
- Visitors from 157 countries
- Top Five: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and India
- Top Five non English Speaking*: France (6), Germany (8), Netherlands (9), Spain (10) and Italy (11)
- One visitor from each: Afghanistan, Andorra, Anguilla, Belize, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Greenland, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Libya, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Myanmar, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Yemen
*Where English is NOT an official language (at least according to Wikipedia). The Philippines was number seven.
Comments: 3,391
Posts: (Limited to non-quote posts.)
- Book 37: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot (2,339 views – Originally posted: July 5, 2012)
- Book 6: A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin (2,048 views – Originally posted: February 1, 2012)
- Book 22: Bastard Out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison (741 views – Originally posted: July 11, 2011)
- Book 36: The Absolutist – John Boyne (678 views – Originally posted: July 3, 2012)
- Book 17: Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie (537 views – Originally posted: March 28, 2012
Referrers:
- WordPress Dashboard/Reader
- Google Reader – RIP sweet friend.
- Classics Club
- And a special thanks to Heather at Between the Covers, Sarah at Sarah Reads too Much and Robert at 101 Books who were at the top of the lists of referrers too!
Search Terms:
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Quotes
- Reinaldo Arenas/Before Night Falls Quotes
- The Well of Loneliness Quotes
- A Game of Thrones Book 6
- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Quotes
Tags and Categories:
- Books (149)
- Fiction (118)
- American (93)
- Love (90)
- Relationships (87)
Totals, Followers and Shares:
- 489 Posts
- 509 WordPress/Blog followers
- Shares 3,932
- Facebook 515
- Reddit 499
- Tumblr 496
- Twitter 491
- LinkedIn 481
- Most Shared
- Book 31: Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories – Truman Capote (May 13, 2013)
- Mildred Loving Quote (July 2010 – back dated)
- Book 38: Willoughby’s Return – Jane Odiwe (June 7, 2013)
- Book 26: Middlemarch – George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (April 24, 2013)
- Book 11: Outward Bound USA: Crew Not Passengers – Josh Miner and Joe Boldt (May 16, 2011)
Comments:
- Top Recent Commenters:
- Heather at Between The Covers
- TBM at Making My Mark
- Heather at Ex Libris
- Katie at Doing Dewey
- Rob at Loose Logic
- Beth at Too Fond
- Most Commented Posts
- Summary
- Comments per month: 47
- Most active recent day: September 27, 2013
Numbers are so much fun! (Even though, as you say, one shouldn’t pay them too much attention!)
It was great I really wish I could’ve gotten an infographic to work. Just means I have a goal for next year.
Good stats! And how did I know that The Absolutist would show up here? [giggles]
Haahaa probably because I message you every few months!
Thanks for sharing your stats! I’m always a bit nervous about sharing mine, for fear of seeming braggy to people with lower stats and for fear of looking silly to people with higher stats, but I didn’t feel judgy about yours so I should probably trust other people not to be judgy about mine. Instead, it was just fun and interesting to see how your blog has done this year and especially to get a feel for your biggest referrers. I don’t check that stat on my own blog enough and I think it’s very informative.
I think that too about sharing my numbers, but as I’m not really playing a numbers game I don’t mind sharing them. It’s mostly so that I can look back next year and see how things have changed!
I love me some stats. Mine are not quite as impressive though, so I’ll be keeping those to myself, but I enjoy occasionally seeing these kind of updates on other blogs. Something satisfying about a list of stats.
Haahaa mine are what they are and I don’t mind sharing them. Like I said it’s mostly too give me a snapshot since it doesn’t let you out dates in. And embrace yours they are what they are.