2012 blog stats
2012 was the busiest year for this blog since readership figures began to be collected in May 2008, with 38,100 pageviews.
In January traffic was running at roughly what it had been in most months since the 2010 election, but figures gradually rose during the year, and the December 2012 traffic figure - 3,876 pageviews - was the second highest monthly figure in the blog's history.
(The highest was a spike of 7,209 in October 2010.)
Because the human brain is built to find patterns, and does so whether they mean anything or not, I am unable to avoid being interested in the statistical happenstance that the blog had exactly 100 hits on New Year's day 2013.
Logic tells me that this is just a statistical freak but the temptation to try to find some meaning in it is surprisingly strong. At the end of the day we are to some extent the prisoners of our emotions and a wish to find meaning in life - and this is for good reason because meanings are important, and often there really are patterns in the things we see around us.
Surprisingly, since the blog mostly focusses on domestic British issues, it has as many readers from the USA and Britain and also attracts interest from much of the rest of the world. About two thirds of hits come from British or American readers, and a third from dozens of other countries - at the moment Norway in third place is just ahead of Germany in fourth.
But whereever you come from, all readers are welcome and I hope you find it interesting.
In January traffic was running at roughly what it had been in most months since the 2010 election, but figures gradually rose during the year, and the December 2012 traffic figure - 3,876 pageviews - was the second highest monthly figure in the blog's history.
(The highest was a spike of 7,209 in October 2010.)
Because the human brain is built to find patterns, and does so whether they mean anything or not, I am unable to avoid being interested in the statistical happenstance that the blog had exactly 100 hits on New Year's day 2013.
Logic tells me that this is just a statistical freak but the temptation to try to find some meaning in it is surprisingly strong. At the end of the day we are to some extent the prisoners of our emotions and a wish to find meaning in life - and this is for good reason because meanings are important, and often there really are patterns in the things we see around us.
Surprisingly, since the blog mostly focusses on domestic British issues, it has as many readers from the USA and Britain and also attracts interest from much of the rest of the world. About two thirds of hits come from British or American readers, and a third from dozens of other countries - at the moment Norway in third place is just ahead of Germany in fourth.
But whereever you come from, all readers are welcome and I hope you find it interesting.
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