Heading into a new year is a good time to consider plans for the next 12 months and review the past year. On blogs that usually means top 10 lists and a review of statistics. I spend as much time obsessing over my page views and post stats as any other blogger. Here's a peak. |
| These are my monthly stats for 2012. It was a pretty steady year, with each month of 2012 having a little more traffic than the corresponding month in 2011, although the spring had a bigger increase in activity than the fall. A lot of that traffic came because of a couple posts on cuts to archaeology at Parks Canada in May. |
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| Here are the yearly stats. Its good to see that returning visits are still climbing (up to 8,144 from 6,410 in 2011). The page loads (108,624) and unique visits (63,316) have their own momentum, because old posts show up in search engine searches and people can run across them at any time. As the blog grows, it casts a wider net for those types of search engine visits. Its nice to see that some of those people are sticking around for return visits. |
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| So who are the returning visitors? This is a snapshot from the Elfshot facebook stats page. The folks who "Like" Elfshot on Facebook probably make up the biggest percentage of returning visitors. At the moment there are 468 people who like Elfshot on Facebook. Most of them are English speaking men between the ages of 35 and 44, living in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. In other words, they are me.
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Photo Credits:
1,5: Tim Rast
2,3: Screen Captures from www.statcounter.com
4: Screen Capture from www.facebook.com
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