Over 1000 people visited this blog last month

It was only a couple of months ago that I managed to grasp how to add the blog "Analytics" tool to this blog - basically it can analyse in detail who visits. It makes some surprising reading....

Photo: A drink last night with Gloucestershire Green party members after a meeting in the New Inn in Gloucester

Over 1000 people are visiting the site every month - more I might add than visit Stroud District Councils' webcast (which averages 536 viewers per month!). About 75% of those visiting are new visitors, some 370 people are returning to view the site regularly.

The vast majority are visitors to the site are understandably from the UK but many visit from abroad: last month the site has seen visitors from a huge number of countries including Latvia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guyana, Ukraine, Thailand and even 9 visitors from the Ivory Coast. The stats can even tell you which town so I know for example 19 came from Melbourne, 11 from Los Angeles, 1 from Reykjavik and 17 from Watford!

About 10% of people come direct to the site while some 30% come from other websites: for example 29 this month from Randwicks' website, 2 from the New Statesman, 160 from other bloggers. The remaining 60% come via search engines.

Having just worked all this out yesterday I was at a Gloucestershire Green party meeting in Gloucester last night - it is a good a chance to meet up with other Green party representatives in the County and share ideas, thoughts and more about the way forward - anyhow I declared proudly that there was even a visitor from Latvia to my blog only to find that a new Gloucester Green party member whose family come from Latvia was that very visitor - his computors' network is based in Latvia although he lives here! Ah well am sure those foreign visitors can't all be Gloucestershire folk with networks overseas!