Kiwiblog’s 2009 Stats
January 26th, 2010 at 11:00 am by David FarrarThe top UK blog Guido Fawkes just mentioned his stats for the last week, being 340,000 page views. That got me to do a quick compare, and KB had 121,000 page views. As the UK has 15 times the population, I’m pretty chuffed to be at slightly more than one third the level of a (or the) top UK blog.
That then reminded me that I should check out and publish what the annual stats were so I just ran Google Analytics for the 2009 calendar year. Some stats:
- 2.68 million visits
- 6.00 million page views
- 680,000 visitors
- Average Time on Site 4:22
- Traffic Source is 35% direct URL, 24% links and 41% search engines
Top Inwards Links:
- No Minister 85,000
- Scoop 47,000
- Whale Oil/Gotcha 39,000
- The Standard 38,000
- Public Address 33,000
- Cactus Kate 22,000
- Keeping Stock 17.000
- Facebook 13,000
- Roar Prawn 13,000
- Twitter 11,000
- Tumeke 10,000
- No Right Turn 8,000
- Dim Post 8.000
- Stephen Franks 7,000
- MacDoctor 6,000
- Frog Blog 6,000
- Red Alert 6,000
- Kiwi Politico 4,500
- Not PC 4,400
- Lindsay Mitchell 4,300
- Home Paddock 4,200
- NZ Conservative 4,000
- Poneke 3,900
- Interest.co.nz 3,700
- Barnsley Bill 3,600
- Pundit 3,300
- Ian Wishart 3,000
- TVHE 2,900
- Monkeys with Typewriters 2,900
Visits per ISP:
- Telecom 796,000
- Telstra-Clear 399,000
- Vodafone 173,000
- Callplus 70,000
- Orcon 104,000
- Worldxchange 42,000
- Woosh 35,000
- Iconz 20,000
- Maxnet 20,000
- VUW 15,000
- MSD 11,000
- FX 10,000
- MOJ 18,000
- APN 8,000
- TVNZ 5,000
- Treasury 5,000
- Air NZ 4,500
- ANZ 4,500
- Fonterra 4,000
- Min Ed 4,000
Top Search Terms:
- Kiwiblog 127,000
- Whale Oil 19,000
- Cactus Kate 10,300
- David Farrar 9,200
- NZ entertainer name suppression 4,300
- Pearl Going 4,000
- Phil Ure 3,900
- Clayton Weatherston 3,700
- Cathy Oxxxxx 3,200
- David Bain 3,000
- Cameron Slater 2,800
- Louise Crome 2,700
- Karen Soich 2,200
- Noelle McCarthy 2,200
- multinationals threaten our economic and political sovereignty 2,200
- Susan Boyle 2,100
- Lisa Lewis 1,700
- Sophie Elliott 1,600
- Neelam Choudary 1,500
- Meg Bates 1,400
Top Pages Visited:
- Blogroll 125,000
- Must Read Blogs 69,000
- The poor entertainer 21,000
- Do you know 20,000
- About KB 14,000
- Comedians line up to say no 10,000
- David Bain case 7,500
- David Bain coverage 6,800
- Richard Worth resigns 6,300
- Clayton Weatherston 5,000
Top search terms that includes sex used to find Kiwiblog:
- group sex video 681
- sex shop k road auckland 412
- animal sex 213
- casual sex 176
- bridget saunders sex 157
- goat sex 149
- banned sex videos 129
- more on green sex for votes plan 126
- comedian charged with committing a sexual offence 112
- sex 106
January 26th, 2010 at 11:11 am
That’s a fantastic achievement David – congratulations!
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 11:20 am
I’m pretty chuffed to be at slightly more than one third the level of a (or the) top UK blog.
Oh, come on David – you don’t need to be a pollster to be able to factor in the fact that NZ lacks the competition of blogs that comes with 15x the population.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 11:23 am
So group sex with animals features highly in those searches. What surprises me is that goat sex has it’s own ranking.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Brian, what amazes me is that Bridget Saunders sex had more searchers than goat sex…
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 11:30 am
Nice stats….
Vote:With Telecom so far ahead from the other ISP’s, it makes me wonder….
Who is the Governments ISP????
January 26th, 2010 at 11:35 am
If you add goat sex and animal sex together (wtf is with the goat sex) its nearly number 2 on the sex search list. Thats just craziness.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 11:50 am
It could have a correlation with recent immigration trends.
Or, it could just be DPF putting wierd things in his metatags (or whatever they are called) to increase hits on his site.
[DPF: I have never put anything into the metatags. In fact I have never done any of the various things SEO experts say you should do. I just write a lot]
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 11:53 am
A possible explanation for odd search terms in that list.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 11:58 am
David,
You could almost do your own blogosphere blog rankings based on those in-coming links!
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
There is a lot of competition in the UK for readers attention. Guido’s very fine blog is one of the most mischievious. As the UK glides towards a critical General Election, with many parallels with NZ’s last one. It might become compulsive viewing.
Think a sudden influx of keen Kiwi Kommentators in the comments section would stir things up quite nicely.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
BTW, I much prefer David Farrar’s bog area for rational and considered debate. Back in Godzone soon.
bastardoldholborn.co.uk is also quite a hoot.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
bearhunter – that is very funny indeed.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Arise Sir Blog
Congratulations, those are very impressive stats, and thanks for the good reading.
I’ve noticed that No Minister always tops the list of inwards links on my blog too.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
About goat sex apparently
[DPF: Only once or twice I think - how ever often someone in Nelson has been caught doing it
]
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Brian Smaller 11:50 am,
Do you think they’ve run out of goats in Europe and the UK, and have realised that NZ has quite high goat populations in the rural backblocks – hence the recent trend of immigrants of a certain persuasion?
And if so, if we culled out the rural goat population then this may result in the reversal of the influx of a certain class of immigrant?
Let the culling begin, I say!
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
‘Oh, come on David – you don’t need to be a pollster to be able to factor in the fact that NZ lacks the competition of blogs that comes with 15x the population.’
The problem with this statement Anna is that you assume that competition is wholly zero-sum (i.e. everyone has a uniform maximum number of blogs they look at – so, if you add a blog to your reading you also have to subtract one).
There is definitely evidence that points against this. For example, generally you will always find a Mcdonalds, KFC and Burger King in quite close range. They’ve established that competition can be positive-sum. More fast-food outlets in a certain area often means increased prominence and, thus, greater awareness – resulting in increased business for all.
So, all said, it could be reasonable to assume that more blogs in the UK means that more people read more blogs. Now I’m njot saying this is 100% true as I have no statistics. But I am saying that your idea of zero-sum competition might not be as bigger factor as you think it is and that it doesn’t have to be included as a disclaimer by DPF.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Interesting that MSD is high on the list — I’m doing some work at DOL at the moment and Kiwiblog is blocked there..
Vote:(probably because you sometimes use the F-word)
January 26th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
4000 visits from the Fonterra ISP.
Vote:That makes my 9.12 p.m. comment on yesterday’s General Debate pertinent.
January 26th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Right then – 17,000 inward links at $0.05 each – where do I send the invoice?
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Did you cross out “Cathy Oxxxxx” to protect the true identify of… the plant girl?
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Not to protect it, as most people know it, but just to stop it registering more in Google.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
No DPF did it as an educational experiment to see how many stupid people would write in to comment about something so obvioius.
Experiment over.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
The great thing about something like goat sex, is it is self fulfilling. You carefully pull out all the sex terms, put them in a blog post. We all comment about them, and next time around, you’ve jumped up a few places in the goat sex search order. Hell, if we all put in one gratuitous comment about goat sex in the general comments section each day, you’d sky rocket. Not sure what all that popularity would be good for though – I’m not sure that the commenters you’d get from that search term would raise the general quality of debate.
Vote:January 26th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
KiwiBlog ranks 30th on Google for the term “goat sex”. 149 people around the globe have more than a passing interest in this it would seem. Wonder where KB ranks for “paraplegic african-american midget sex”? Probably #1 in about 30 minutes after this post.
Vote:January 27th, 2010 at 5:48 am
Noskire [January 26th, 2010 at 9:01 pm],
I have often wondered about whether “paraplegic african-american midget[s]” would have better or worse aerodynamic properties than just plain “african-american midgets”
Next time we get together at our dwarf tossing meeting I must put this to the test.
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