2009 Statistics

Posted January 5th, 2010 in Miscellaneous Postings

This post is one of a few looking at how my 2009 went and to set some aims for 2010. This post looks at some statistics for 2009.

Graph

The graph below is from Google Analytics covering Januery 1st 2009 to December 31st 2009. The blue line and numbers at the left are visitor numbers, and the orange line and numbers at the right are pageviews. Each point on the graph represents a month.

As you can see there was fairly steady growth throughout the year with a slight drop in August and then flattening out a little at the end of the year due to the holiday season.

Statistics

According to Google Analytics this blog served 1,948,787 pageviews to 1,583,361 visitors over the course of the year. On a month by month breakdown this looks like so:

Month	Visitors	Pageviews
January	63,176	75,372
February	74,367	90,009
March	88,737	108,747
April	94,083	114,969
May	114,250	141,812
June	129,030	158,389
July	150,044	183,167
August	145,733	179,639
September	159,128	197,627
October	185,530	229,555
November	189,897	234,301
December	189,386	235,197

Over the course of the year the amount of traffic this to blog tripled. This was somewhat short of my unrealistic tenfold increase I had been aiming for but I came to realise fairly early in the year that I was never going to increase traffic by that much. There was a reason I had been wanting to get traffic to that level but more about that tomorrow.