Saturday, October 18, 2008

Who Reads This Blog?

I think some of you might be interested in who is reading my blog these days. My readership is not great as blogs go, only about 100 unique individuals a day and that's more than normal.

I pulled up stats on yesterday, which was a little lower than some days but better than usual on a Friday. Here's how it broke down:

170 visits
about 230 page views
about 95 unique visitors

Of the visits, 140 of them were from the US. The other visits were from 11 other countries, of which Great Britain and Canada had the most (8 and 7 visits respectively).

In the US, more come from Indiana (30 visits) than elsewhere, although I had visitors yesterday from 30 states. I don't have hardly any readers from the non-coastal western states like Arizona and Montana. Ohio and Florida came in second and third yesterday (17 and 16 respectively), with Craig bolstering my numbers in Tampa (11 visits from Tampa :-).

In Indiana, 8 visits were from Marion (which includes me). I checked Marion for October 13, when I had a comparable amount of visits, and there were 22 visits on that day from Marion.

My point is that IWU students do not comprise a significant portion of my readers, for those of you who were worried. I know a few read it, because I have had them mention it to me. I am not ashamed of my thoughts, but a person would not know who I am thinking of voting for unless they had read this blog. And again, as an Arminian, I reserve the right to change my vote if I am convinced otherwise.

11 comments:

Jared Calaway said...

You receive far more visits than I do. Just raw numbers, including repeat visitors, I receive on average about 50-60 visits.

Ken Schenck said...

I'm sure that after 4 years of blogging you'll be way beyond where I am now, and mine will fall off drastically after the election season. When you look at the Technorati rating of Scot McKnight or Jim West or even James McGrath, my Technorati rating in the lower 40's is nothing.

Angie Van De Merwe said...

I often pull your blog up to see your side-bar blogs, as I often read those. But, I must admit that I do re-read some entries and the responses...

And I bet you and Jared both that you have more blog reads on one of your entries than I have on all of mine put together. I really don't care anyway, as it is like a journal for me...I guess my journalling has no boundaries...:)

Ken Schenck said...

I've seen people commenting on your blog, Angie, and it shows up in my side list when you post. You can track you readers for free with Google Analytics.

Ken Schenck said...

By the way, a shout out to whoever occasionally reads this blog in Cheltenham, England. My Dad was stationed there for a while during WW2.

Scott D. Hendricks said...

:-) . . . still reading.

As you know, I don't post nearly enough to merit great traffic at my blog. I just don't seem to have things to say, eh? So maybe I'll eventually shut mine down, or maybe I'll eventually find a good use for it. Who knows?

Jared Calaway said...

Yes, I think my technorati rating is around 7. But it has nearly doubled over the summer. I think in early June it was 3.

None of us compare to Jim Davila, however!

Anonymous said...

Ken, I am very pleased at your increased readership and especially your new emerging base in Tampa. I will do all I can to promote new readers down here in St Petersburg where I live.

Ken Schenck said...

:-)

Anonymous said...

You forgot to mention Holland:D Although now my IP comes from Turkey as Im studying abroad for a semester:)

Blessings,

Daniel

Brad Boydston said...

And then you have readers such as myself who never visit your blog directly -- and thus never show up in your Google Analytics stats -- because we're pulling your posts through RSS feeds of various sorts. So, hafa adai from Guam!