If I Had A Dollar

There are certain milestones that should be acknowledged, and one of these milestones has just passed for this blog. If I had a dollar for every page that had been viewed on this blog then I’d be living the Life of Riley because I’d be a millionaire. Yes, that’s right, my Sitemeter counter of Page Views has just ticked over the 1,000,000 mark.

A few stats then as of the time of writing this:
Total Visitors = 401,144
Average Visitors per Day (Last 7 Days) = 601
Page Views = 1,000,014
Average Page Views per Day (Last 7 Days) = 1,382

A couple of months ago I installed a Flag Counter that registers the country of origin of visitors. Sitemeter also does that, but doesn’t store the data long-term, so whilst I had a reasonable general idea of the locations of my viewers I didn’t have any cumulative data.

My flag counter has currently recorded visitors from 118 territories, although 4 of the flags are flags of ‘Unknown’ (e.g. ‘Unknown – Asia/Pacific Region’, ‘Unknown – Satellite Provider’) so I don’t think they count. The flag counter has confirmed the obvious – given the language that I blog in, national populations and internet usage, it’s a no-brainer that the Big 4 of the Anglosphere (USA, UK, Canada, Australia in that order) would completely dominate my visitor locations. But beyond that, there have been a few surprises. I am surprised at Singapore showing up at 7th and Turkey at 19th, both considerably higher placings than I would have anticipated. Given the popularity of stationery and pencils in Japan I shouldn’t be surprised at Japan being the highest ranking non-English speaking country, but for some strange reason I am. My antipodes are down in the south of Spain, so a special Hola! from the Antipodes to my antipodes. Speaking of Spain, I have been very surprised at how the Portuguese-o-sphere has been out-ranking the Hispano-o-sphere, with Brazil ranked 10th and Portugal 21st compared to Spain at 11th and Mexico at 30th.

Of course, as always, I must say a special thanks to those of you who are regular readers, those who have sent me stuff over the years, correspond with me, link their sites here, make comments on this blog, etc. It is all much appreciated. Anyway, thanks for reading, hope you will continue to do so in the future.

Ka kite ano.