Andrew Reeves running blog stat porn for August 2010

So, continuing my monthly stat porn figures for anyone who is remotely interested (I am so there), the monthly summary of my visitor stats according to google analytics is as below for August 2010.

The busiest day on my blog last month was Tuesday 31st August and the story was about the coalition replacing NHS Direct but highlighting Labour's hypocrisy and lies on this as it was in their election manifesto, to do the very same thing - many thanks to Guido Fawkes for linking to the story.

Last month I had 4,661 absolute unique visitors, nearly double the numbers from last month. They made 5,665 visits and 7,141 page views.

15.92% of the visitors were through direct traffic, 63.55% from referring sites and 20.53% via search engines. 
 
So, my top 10 referring sites for the last month (with previous position in brackets) were;

1. Order-Order.com (New Entry)
2. Twitter (2)
3. Facebook (1)
4. Lib Dem Voice (3)
5. Lib Dem Blogs (4)
6. SNP Tactical Voting (6)
7. Blogger.com (5)
8. Google.co.uk (7)
=9. Google.com (21)
=9. widget.linkwithin.com (30)

Last month I wrote 34 blog posts, keeping up the momentum from the month before.

The top 10 stories by direct page views that you've read most were;

1. John Prescott, Labour and the truth about NHS Direct
2. Clinton Cards - homophobic or just plain lazy?
3. BNP close to extinction as Richard Barnbrook resigns
4. Charles Kennedy MP and Sarah Gurling to split
5. Conservative Council leader Councillor Kay Cutts snubs gay activist
6. Conservative Councillor Neil Rockcliffe calls his ward "Chaffrica"
7. NHS Direct to be scrapped
8. Glasgow Labour Councillor Gilbert Davidson arrested over lewd text and voice messages
9. X Factor winner Joe McElderry: I'm gay
10. Ed Miliband MP lays out welcome mat for Lib Dems and concedes defeat in leadership race

So this month has an eclectic mix from the very sad news of Charles Kennedy and his wife Sarah splitting up, to Labour's lies about NHS Direct, a Conservative Council leader snubbing a gay activist because he was Labour, a Labour Councillor gets arrested over lewd text messages, Clinton Cards and their snub on civil partnership products and for the second month Joe McElderry the X Factor winner announced he was gay.

Slightly disappointing that National Orgasm Day didn't make it into the mix, but there's always next month.

The visitors to my little blog came from 68 countries this month, up from 57 last time, the top ten were as follows;

1. United Kingdom (1)
2. United States (2)
3. France (12)
4. Belgium (4)
=5. Canada (3)
=5. Ireland (5)
=7. Australia (=7)
=7. Germany (=7)
9. Netherlands (10)
10. Spain (=7)