Kiwiblog 2011 Stats
January 6th, 2012 at 9:00 am by David FarrarAll stats from Google Analytics for 2011 calendar year.
Main Stats
- Visits – 3,550,071 (2,993,948) – 19% annual increase
- Visitors – 746,662 (718,046)
- Pageviews – 7,082,230 (6,487,007)
Country of Visitors
- NZ 84.3%
- Australia 4.8%
- US 3.0%
- UK 2.5%
- Canada 0.6%
- Singapore 0.3%
- Japan 0.3%
- Germany 0.3%
- India 0.2%
City of Visitors
- Auckland 37.2%
- Wellington 23.3%
- Christchurch 8.5%
- Hamilton 2.5%
- Dunedin 2.0%
- Sydney 1.6%
- Palm Nth 1.6%
- Mechanics Bay 1.5%
- Melbourne 1.4%
- Nelson 1.0%
Browsers
- IE 37.0% (-8.3%)
- Firefox 26.2% (-4.1%)
- Safari 18.1% (+6.1%)
- Chrome 15.1% (+4.8%)
- Android 1.1%
- Opera 0.9%
Operating Systems
- Windows 73.5% (-8.2%)
- Mac 14.0% (+1.3%)
- iPhone 4.4% (+2.3%)
- iPad 3.4% (++2.7%)
- Linux 1.5% (-0.1%)
Hosts (excluding ISPs)
- VUW 21,264
- MOJ 15,779
- MSD 10,865
- Massey 9,306
- APN 6,930
- Air NZ 5,707
- Fonterra 5,279
- Treasury 4,798
- MOE 4,755
- NZ Post 4,500
- Westpac 4,028
- Ak City Council – 3,759
- TVNZ 3,636
Access
- 35.0% search
- 29.3% referral
- 35.7% direct
Search Terms (excluding Kiwiblog and my name)
- Cactus Kate
- Cathy Odgers
- Malcolm Harbrow
- Whale Oil
- Matthew Hooton
- Erin Leigh
- Labour List
- VSM bill
- Liz Shaw
- Mana Party
- Kate Sutton
- Owen Glenn
- Whaleoil
- Vote for Change
- The spirit level
Referrals
- No Minister
- Whale Oil
- NZ Herald
- Dim Post
- Keeping Stock
- Cactus Kate
- Scoop
- The Standard
- NZ Conservative
Also currently Kiwiblog has had:
- 21,188 posts, of which approx 2,800 were made in 2011
- 790,704 comments, of which approx 140,000 were made in 2011
- 4,020 tags
- 7,514 registered commenters
January 6th, 2012 at 9:07 am
Lol, part of that 0.3% from Singapore might have been me just over a week ago, waiting for my flight in Changi.
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 9:31 am
City of Visitors – Dunedin 2.0%. Dunedin has about 3% of the population so looks to be under-represented on KB – I expect an apology from all those who’ve grizzled about how much I’ve commented here.
But – thanks to DPF for his tolerance and many excellent posts. When’s your next holiday?
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 9:32 am
What, no penguin sex?
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Interesting statistics; very surprised to learn Kiwiblog has few readers in the provinces (1.6% Palmy, 2% Dunedin) as I would have thought the number would have been considerably greater in the provinces and quite low in Auckland.
[DPF: The city stats should be read with caution. They are often based on where the ISP is located]
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 9:40 am
Good to see Farrar’s open attitude towards the Kblog viewer stats. Be interested to see a similar breakdown of Whaleoil viewers….
Doubt we’ll see them though.
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 9:46 am
Interesting stat: Scott Chris 3,237 posts in about 6 months.
All about Scott Chris.
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 9:55 am
Careful tdm – the self confessed nonce will run off and squeal to the headmaster if you dare point out the obvious….
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 10:06 am
Very healthy stats with a 19% increase!
Vote:Keep up the good work, DPF. This blog (and WO) are my two must-reads.
Thank goodness there are blogs like this to counter the awful leftist nonsense coming from places like Red Alert and The Standard.
January 6th, 2012 at 10:23 am
Well done, DPF. I congratulate you for your efforts.
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 10:27 am
Fuck off dav. See there’s another. Kaching!
Thing is, I’d only have half the number if I wasn’t responding to silly sniping from the likes of you or that silly misanthropic bint elaycee.
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 10:55 am
Scott, not sure why the unnecessary swipe at Whale Oil. Why would it be interesting to see his breakdown (as opposed to, say, the Standard’s breakdown, or Red Alert’s breakdown)? Why in particular are you making it a negative comment about Whale Oil for not releasing it when so few blogs release it. Perhaps he doesn’t post it because he can’t be bothered or thought nobody was interested?
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 11:20 am
One question DPF:
When I have been wading through one of your posts or the comments etc, and I click on “Home” to go back to the start, there is always a delay while all the info, ads etc reload – does this register as a new separate visit, or do I have to log off then log back on to be listed as a separate visit?
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 11:52 am
But Scott, surely the mature response is to ignore what you perceive as sniping. But then …
Soooo … confirming -
Petulant: CHECK
Vote:Lacking self-awareness: CHECK
Narcissistic: CHECK
Hypocrite: CHECK
January 6th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
PaulL says:- “why the unnecessary swipe at Whale Oil.”
Because I find the ratio of comments to viewers suspicious. I’d have thought that there would be a fairly standard correlation between the two, and yet for the number of views Slater purportedly gets on his blogsite (substantially more than kblog) he gets far fewer comments.
Easiest way for anyone to check this is to see what, if any, correlation exists between views and comments of all the blogs listed. But I couldn’t be bothered. The point is too obscure to prove anything to most people.
[DPF: Whale uses sitemeter, like I do, which publicly displays the stats]
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
@ Scott Chris – have you ever considered that YOU might be “too obscure to prove anything to most people”?
@ DPF; glad to have been a source of traffic for you
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 1:05 pm
just wondered if it was possible for Whale to fake his site stats ?
http://www.integralwebsolutions.co.za/Blog/EntryId/145/Faking-your-website-or-blog-traffic.aspx
and asked myself is he the type to do it ?
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Pollywog, I was just wondering if it was possible for you to beat your wife. And asked myself, is he the type to do it.
I guess the question is for what reason you think Whale might be faking his stats, and why you even care. This seems an exercise in assuming that Whale is a bad person (I’ll give you crazy, but I’m not sure on bad), and then imagining some bad things he might be doing because he’s bad. Why don’t you just write a comment saying you don’t like him, stop visiting his site, and don’t worry about it?
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
David Farrar says:- “[DPF: Whale uses sitemeter, like I do, which publicly displays the stats]”
Yes I know. Question is, how could you manipulate those numbers? Like I said on your original post congratulating Slater. Smells like someones bot.
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
“Because I find the ratio of comments to viewers suspicious.”
I’ll take that on board Scott.
Make sure you report back on the outcome of your expert research on point.
The world is waiting.
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
PaulL
i don’t visit his site, i don’t care about him faking his site stats, i’m not worried about whether he’s a bad person or not, whether he beats his wife or anything about him.
i was just wondering if it was possible to fake site stats and now know it is. As for why he might do it, well…
crazy is as crazy does
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
C’mon Dav, lets start again shall we?
I like reading your posts when they’re not about me. I see ‘thedavincimode’ in the recent comments side bar and I think, “wonder what dav’s take on this subject is?”
Just lately though, it’s been kinda negative and personal.
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
“Just lately …”
Slow learner: CHECK
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Heh. Okey. If commenting on me is what spins your wheels, then knock yourself out.
BTW Nah, not slow learner. Just being conciliatory. You’d better look that one up
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Korea must be lumped in with Japan then. Thanks for the cool site David. I visit first thing in the morning. Drink some tea, then go to No Minister, and Whale.
cheers
David Prosser
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 3:40 pm
pollywog 1:05 Maybe, I don’t know enough about that subject to comment. Hell no!
cheers
David Prosser
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
“… not slow learner. Just being conciliatory.”
Ah, so you mis-spoke? Oh dear. It gets worse.
Liar: CHECK
Vote:January 6th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
dav says:- “Liar”
Vote:January 7th, 2012 at 1:23 am
I read your blog every day from China – it is my essential daily read. Keep up the good work.
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