blogiversary year 3

Just three years since I started this blog to hold presentation notes from Internet Librarian 2004.
I continue to be amazed at the connections and opportunities it has opened up.

As always, these numbers and graphics may demonstrate that my blog is either much bigger or much smaller than you thought, anyway, they're mostly for my own amusement.

Feed Stats

Feed readership growth has been steady, I was hoping to get to 1000 (as measured by FeedBurner) but I didn't quite make it, I hit 956.  That compares with about 575 last year.  (I might have done a bit more analysis but FeedBurner was having a rare meltdown as I was trying to write this.)  Part of that jump though, visible in February 2007, was just Google turning on the reporting of stats for Google Reader and other Google properties.  The various valleys and dips this year are FeedBurner temporarily losing connection with one of its feed stats sources.

Web Stats

The direct hits on my site (as seen by StatCounter) are steady to declining.  However the stats are a bit bogus in terms of library technology anyway, as many of the hits are for my GPS and other technology reviews (about which, more to come).

Technorati provides some vague measure of incoming links as "authority" a count of the number of different blogs that have linked to one's blog in the last six months as Technorati Authority, mine is currently 96, for whatever that's worth (major blogs have authorities in the thousands, in case you're wondering).

By far the most popular content as measured by feed item views was Sci Foo.  The all-time winner continues to be my controversial posting on the future of the research library.  For "clicks back to the site" Medicine 2.0 looks like the tops on a quick scan, but I only have click data starting from mid-2007 when Google bought FeedBurner and made FeedBurner Pro free.

Google Analytics has changed its map views, here are country-level and city-level views of my web hits (and no, I don't know why they made the thin strand of islands that curve off of Alaska look like a giant prong)

I am up to 1857 posts, 542 comments and 106 trackbacks (a few of the latter two groups are undeleted spam, but most are not).

Previously:
November 19, 2006  meta: 2 years of Science Library Pad
December 22, 2005  year-end wrapup
October 24, 2005  to every season turn turn - one year of scilib blogging

Comments

[Maxine]

Impressive stats, Richard! Congratulations.