I've been blogging at Google's Blogger for over 10 years now and Blogger records over 2.9m visits for this Stuff that occurs to me blog, but Google Analytics tends to be vastly more conservative and suggests it's nearer ~700,000 visitors and ~800,000 visits (ie each person visiting slightly more than one page). In 2019 I've had about 13,000 visitors here, quite a big drop from when I was posting about three or four times as many posts on this blog. I'm blogging more elsewhere (How to Do Various Techy Things had 149,000 visitors this year for example).
Every year I post the blog stats for this blog, and this is my tenth year of doing so (previous years at the end). I do it in case other people might be nosey :)
There seems to be a correlation between the number of posts I write on this blog and its visitors / pageviews, apart from an odd blip in December 2016. I don't have a posting schedule, as the title of this blog suggests I literally only post 'Stuff that occurs to me', as and when it occurs. As I blog a lot elsewhere too this site has diminished somewhat.
Index
- Table 1: Blog posts per year, by year (= how many blog posts have I written each year?)
- Fig 1: Blogger's 'all time view' for this site
- Table 2: Blog stats, by month, for 2019 (= how many people visited this blog, per month, this year?)
- Table 3: Annual and lifetime views of this blog (= how many people visited this blog each year and the overall total?)
- Fig 2: Google Analytics 'all time view' for this site
- Fig 3: The most popular posts on this blog, all time, Blogger stats
- Particular features of this blog
- All previous annual stats overview posts, by year
Table 1: Blog posts per year, by year
2009 (45)
2010 (77)
2011 (89)
2012 (141)
2013 (141)
2014 (100)
2015 (50)
2016 (40)
2017 (45)
2018 (30)
2019 (33)
Fig 1: Blogger's 'all time view' for this site
Fig 1: Blogger stats 'all time view'. All time views as of today is 2,971,921
I briefly switched off this blog in Dec 2016 as I seemed to be getting a suspiciously high number of visits from Russia (I assumed bots) and January is still showing unusually high numbers. You can see the December blip in the all-time view from Blogger above (Fig 1).
The most interesting thing about the stats for me is always the vast difference between Blogger's pageviews (1st column in Table 2) and Google Analytics' (3rd column in Table 2). This is generally understood to be because Blogger counts every 'hit' including Google's indexing crawlers and not just real people. I've also included the number of people visiting each month (2nd column), to my knowledge Blogger doesn't provide that info. Odd because Blogger 'is' Google. See explanation below for what numbers in brackets mean.
Table 2: Blog stats, by month, for 2019
| Month | Pageviews (Blogger) | Visitors (Google) | Page views (Google) |
|---|---|---|---|
| January (7) | 10,665 | 1,312 | 1,508 |
| February (0) | 9,494 | 1,121 | 1,306 |
| March (2) | 9,455 | 1,041 | 1,207 |
| April (4) | 10,058 | 928 | 1,005 |
| May (3) | 10,720 | 1,105 | 1,247 |
| June (0) | 9,401 | 1,113 | 1,252 |
| July (3) | 9,851 | 1,246`̉ | 1,395 |
| August (1) | 11,108 | 1,237 | 1,436 |
| September (2) | 9,115 | 1,086 | 1,283 |
| October (4) | 11,891 | 1,212 | 1,490 |
| November (4) | 13,338 | 1,053 | 1,254 |
| December (3) | 8,235.. | 963 | 1,339 |
Table 2 info
Figures in brackets next to the month are the number of blog posts published that month.
Table 3: Annual and lifetime views of this blog
| Year | Pageviews (Blogger) | Visitors (Google) | Page views(Google) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (77) | 23,351 | 9,630* | 18,958* |
| 2011 (89) | 65,972 | 22,343 | 40,263 |
| 2012 (141) | 187,506 | 57,040 | 77,869 |
| 2013 (141) | 553,064 | 136,941 | 164,352 |
| 2014 (100) | 779,632 | 199,217 | 226,419 |
| 2015 (50) | 498,355 | 113,129 | 130,115 |
| 2016 (40) | 379,613 | 66,614 | 77,092 |
| 2017 (45) | 202,609 | 42,090 | 46,179 |
| 2018 (29) | 141,815 | 20,725 | 24,044 |
| 2019 (33) | 123,331 | 13,316 | 15,722 |
2,971,857* 680,073^ 824,140^^
Table 3 info
Figures in brackets next to the year are the number of blog posts published that year.
*I began counting stats on Google Analytics in April 2010. Blogger began its own stats system in July 2010.
*, ^ and ^^ are counts of everything in the columns above done in different ways hence a slight disparity.
Fig 2: Google Analytics 'all time view'.
Fig 2: Google Analytics' 'all time view'.
Fig 3. Most visited posts for this blog (for all time)
Fig 3: The most popular posts on this blog
Features of my blog to take into account
Or, mitigating circumstances / excuses ;)
- People find my posts almost entirely through search engine results (I don't promote my blog heavily on social media, though I do mention it fairly regularly)
- The most popular posts here are about how to do something, often on Twitter - the answer to people's question(s) can usually be found within the first summary, or tl;dr, paragraph or the title, with the rest of the post containing supplemental information. This means that I have a VERY high bounce rate (91%) - people arrive, see the answer, leave. If this were a sales website that would be disastrous but as a largely 'how to' info blog that's OK.
- My blog is about many different things and therefore unfocused.
- I don't have a regular posting schedule and literally post stuff as it occurs to me, which is appropriate given the name of the blog. Sometimes two posts in a day, sometimes nothing for weeks.
- I have several other blogs including a dedicated 'howto' blog where I post most of my instructional posts. I also have one for stuff near Blackheath, one to collect recipes that weren't too disastrous), not to mention work blogs - so I am rather spreading myself thinly and this is reflected in fewer posts here and consquently fewer visits/-ors.
Previous posts about this blog's stats
- Blog stats for this blog (2010, published January 2011)
blog getting around 3,000-4,000 hits per month - as assessed by Blogger (Google Analytics is always much lower) - Blog stats for this blog part two (2011)
around 4,000-8,000 hits per month (Blogger stats) - Blog stats for this blog part three (2012)
8,000-25,000 hits, 32,000 by December (Blogger stats) - Blog stats for this blog part four (2013)
around 40,000 hits per month (Blogger stats) - Blog stats for this blog part 5 (2014)
- Blog stats for this blog part 6 (2015)
- Blog stats for this blog part 7 (2016)
- Blog stats for this blog part 8 (2017)
- Blog stats for this blog part 9 (2018)
- Blog stats for this blog part 10 (2019) - this post
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