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I got a nice email from WordPress on New Year’s Day, telling me “You’re doing awesome!”. It was their Blog-Health-o-meter. Looks to me like I only just make it into the green – but anyway, I thought I’d share, in case anybody is vaguely interested.
About 7,000 unique visitors came to the site in 2010 – apparently that’s around 18 full 747s. Not a huge number, maybe, but I’m very pleased.
TOP POSTS
1. Why the Plane Stupid ad works – people still watching the polar bears.
2. The Crazy Chemist: talking about legal highs – angry Daily Mail articles.
3. Climbing the social media ladders – people seem to find the links here helpful.
4. How to be happy: Hug a Homo – gay friendly countries are happier places…
5. Work, not charity – about my Ethiopia trip with the Nike Foundation.
TOP REFERRING SITES
1. twitter.com – various links to specific posts.
2. mothergrapevine.com – Mother’s staff directory (since de-listed!).
3. facebook.com – never managed to figure out why I get hits from Facebook…
4. bluelight.ru – big discussion about legal highs.
5. blog.ted.com – links to a post about Hillary Clinton’s TED talk.
TOP SEARCH TERMS
1. crazy chemist
2. antidote jon miller
3. some people are gay get over it
4. fuck cancer
5. crowdfunding
The big puzzle: each post gets a few hundred unique views, and I seem to have quite a few RSS feeds (…feeders?)… so why is the level of comment so low? I occasionally get people emailing me via the contact links, but hardly any comment. Any ideas?
Anyway, whilst we’re doing 2010 web stats – I thought this was interesting, from Google Zeitgeist. It’s the top searches for “how to…” and “what is…”. It paints an interesting picture (I had to look up “how to dougie” and “what is HPV”).
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I’d hazard a guess that most people – like myself – are lurkers. Also, the fact I get this through Google Reader means I don’t need to click through, so I’m less likely to post.
Do you post your blogs on Facebook?
What’s interesting about Google is how they’re using this information to predict future events like flu outbreaks. And a bit scary too. Not long before they’ll win a gov’t contract for minority report type predictions…and this is from a Google fanboy
Comment by Ben January 3, 2011 @ 5:29 pmhi Ben, thanks for your comment! to be fair, I lurk around most of the time too, probably should start leaving more comments if I want to get more.
re. Google – interesting, I came across this today: Privacy International gave a Google Tech-talk, and they talk about “Minority Report” style predictions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSYXw87BWXo
Comment by Jon Miller January 3, 2011 @ 9:45 pm