by Daniel Rollins,
Today is the anniversary of our first regular post on the Portsmouth Point blog. A year ago today we posted Julia Alsop's interesting piece on the Ancient Philosopher, Thales. So now I will use this anniversary to look back at how the blog has developed and grown over the past year.
One of the most interesting things about running a blog are statistics, most blog providers show you them and Blogger (our one) is no exception so here are interesting and sometimes bizarre highlights from the stats page:
At the time of writing the blog has had 74,396 pageviews. We have grown from having only 385 pageviews last February to 10,042 pageviews last month (see Figure 1)
Top 3 referring sites: 1. http://www.facebook.com/
2. http://www.pgs.org.uk/
3. http://www.google.com/search
Top 5 countries (by number of pageviews):
(Special mention to the people in Iran who visited us a few times)
Search engines occasionally point people our way; here are some of the more bizarre things that Google decided we would be able to provide information for:
Congratulations and thank you to all of our contributors. The blog could only have been this successful with your hard work and great articles!
Today is the anniversary of our first regular post on the Portsmouth Point blog. A year ago today we posted Julia Alsop's interesting piece on the Ancient Philosopher, Thales. So now I will use this anniversary to look back at how the blog has developed and grown over the past year.
One of the most interesting things about running a blog are statistics, most blog providers show you them and Blogger (our one) is no exception so here are interesting and sometimes bizarre highlights from the stats page:
At the time of writing the blog has had 74,396 pageviews. We have grown from having only 385 pageviews last February to 10,042 pageviews last month (see Figure 1)
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| Figure 1 |
2. http://www.pgs.org.uk/
3. http://www.google.com/search
Top 5 countries (by number of pageviews):
Search engines occasionally point people our way; here are some of the more bizarre things that Google decided we would be able to provide information for:
"Make off like speedy gonzales"
"titian diana and actaeon"
"shrek donkey baby""titian diana and actaeon"
"angry chuck norris"
"boris johnson funny"
Here are the most popular posts for some sections:
Drama: Ellie Burr-Lonnen's review of "The Producers",.
Travel: Lucy Cole's account of her travels to Granada, Spain,
Psychology: "Is Lack of Sleep a Problem for PGS Pupils?" by Hattie Gould and Annie Materna
Science: Ed Harding explains the Higgs Boson,
Photography: Micha Oates' Guide to Lomography
Sport: How to inflict pain on Spain by Ben Willcocks
And the all-time most popular post: Why (Maths Says) I Will Never Get a Girlfriend by Charlie Albuery
Finally, some of my personal favorites:
Melissa Smith's post on the Death Penalty
Michael Roderick against the Fanatics
'Bram Stoker's Fifty Shades of Dorian Gray' by Gregory Walton-Green:
Michael Roderick against the Fanatics
'Bram Stoker's Fifty Shades of Dorian Gray' by Gregory Walton-Green:
Congratulations and thank you to all of our contributors. The blog could only have been this successful with your hard work and great articles!
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