Friday, May 01, 2009

May Statporn


Another Record Month

For this blog it was another record month in May with 142,079 absolute unique visitors, compared with 128,574 in April. Page views have doubled since January with more than 1.1 million in May.

Year on Year Absolute Unique Visitors +60%
1 May 2008-30 April 2009 800,800 1 May 2007-30 April 2008 488,027

Absolute Unique Visitors +65% year on year
April 2009 142,079 - April 2008 71,877 - Apr 2009 128,574

Page Loads year on year +132%
May 2009 1,101,119 - May 2008 375,755

Here are my top 30 linking sites (ie incoming hits) for May, according to Google Analytics.

1. - Guido Fawkes 102,333 (79,199)
2. +21 PoliticsHome 24,282 (19,458)
3. -1 Spectator Coffee House 21,946 (21,395)
4. +1 ConservativeHome 21,715 (15,395)
5. -2 PoliticalBetting 19,788 (19,791)
6. - Twitter 9,009 (6,289)
7. +1 Facebook 7,748 (6,175)
8. -1 Dizzy Thinks 7,179 (6,216)
9. +1 Daniel Finkelstein & Red Box 6,571 (4,434)
10. -1 Old Holborn 5,106 (5,473)
11. +3 Telegraph blogs 4,393 (2,066)
12. -1 Obnoxio the Clown 3,723 (3,170)
13. - Tom Harris 2,429 (2,107)
14. +4 Paul Waugh 1,870 (1,274)
15. +12 Nadine Dorries 1,570 (880)
16. +4 LabourList 1,437 (1,176)
17. -5 Bloggerheads 1,434 (2,192)
18. +8 SNP Tactical Voting 1,271 (938)
19. +9 Archbishop Cranmer 1,160 (861)
20. -4 Devil's Kitchen 1,121 (1,680)
21. -2 Ambush Predator 1,090 (1,206)
22. N NHS Blog Doctor 1,074

23. +7 John Redwood's Diary 1,021 (832)
24. N Little Man in a Toque 1,024
25. N UK Polling Report 1,007
26. N Burning our Money 978
27. N Douglas Carswell 917
28. +1 Bob Piper 912 (832)
29. -4 Daily Referendum 819 (945)
30. N EU Referendum 809

Source: All figures are from Google Analytics. Absolute Unique Visitors broadly means people using over 142,000 different computers visited this blog at least once. Some people may be counted more than once (eg, home and work computer),whilst some people may not be counted (eg, two different people use the same computer, or someone reads the site through a feed reader without ever actually visiting it).

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