One Year On

One of the benefits (or perhaps a curse) of blogging this story is that you actually do get a chance to read what you were thinking during the process. It prevents selective memory. My first post on this blog was one year ago tomorrow so today marks my first year as a blogger. I don't suppose I will be writing a similar post to celebrate two years but you never know.

It was the middle of August 2008 that we first saw the property that was going to take up so much of our time for the next twelve months.

To celebrate a year of blogging here are some pointless statistics.

• In twelve months this blog has been visited 2,537 times.

• There have been 374 unique visitors.

• People from 35 countries have been on the site with the UK followed by USA, Ireland and Brazil sending the most visitors.

• The most popular time to visit is 7:00PM at night with only three people making the effort at 3:00AM in the morning.

• Internet explorer is the most popular browser @ 64%. 3 people use Opera and 12 Chrome – oh yes and 4 people browsed the site from an iPhone.

That's enough analysis. Google Analytics has a lot to answer for.

February Statistics

After the sudden and surprising peak at the end of January things have settled down again in APD blog land although there have still been 55 people visiting the blog a total of 350 times last month. 11% of these have not visited before.

The international readership is ever present so hello to Brazil, Romania and Turkey among others.

January Statistics and a Milestone

January has seen a record number of visits to this blog but I am not really sure why. The 30^th and 31^st January saw a relatively large number visits from all over the world. I can only assume they arrived from people browsing blogs in blogger and for some reason my mediocre efforts were at the top of the list. Anyway here is a world map showing where all my visitors came from (click on the picture to make the map larger).

The deeper the green the more visitors. It is all quite exciting but in truth none of these visitors hung around very long. In total in January I had 406 visits from 108 individuals in 24 countries.

I am sure I have mentioned it before but I also know what words people key into Google (and other search engines) that get them to the blog. Most of them are as you would expect but I imagine that the person who searched for 'Amateur "Shower Head" Insertion' wasn't that interested in property development.

Also – this is my 100^th post. There are many (me included) who didn't think I would keep it up. We have all been proved wrong.

November Statistics

I cannot believe that another month has gone by which gives me another excuse to see how many people are reading this blog.

In November I had 390 visits from 49 different visitors.

Obviously most were from the UK but I have had visitors from America, Canada (see the "Steve Austin" search earlier in the month) and Sweden.

Thank you for continuing to read my assorted ramblings – I think it is fair to say I don't know who you all are anymore.

October Statistics

It’s the first of November which gives me an excuse to look at my blog statistics for October.

There have been 259 visits to the blog this month from 40 visitors. There was one from New Zealand (Auckland) and one from USA (Florida) but I must confess to knowing who they both were. Still quite exciting though!

There are so many statistics you can get from Google Analytics I could put on my anorak and quote them for page after page..... but I won’t.

Statistics

There seems to be a trend amongst bloggers where, at the end of the month, they report how many hundreds of thousands of visits they have had to their website and how many unique visitors and so on.

Never one to be out done, I am proud to be able to record 105 visits from 21 visitors in the two weeks to the end of September. Four of these visits have come through searches on Google.

I clearly have some way to go!