This is, I swear, the first good chance I’ve had to look at my July 2019 readership statistics. I had a lot going on the first week of the month. This probably won’t happen next year, when I look to have a lot going on the first week of July instead. Well, we’ll know about next year when it arrives, if it does.
Oh, also, I started making new spreadsheets, which is a good way of keeping me distracted. This is probably a mistake, but I’ll make do with it.
There were 3,477 pages viewed here in July. That’s a fair number. The twelve-month running average leading up to July 2019 was 3,117.7 page views per month. There were 1,840 unique visitors in July, according to WordPress. The twelve-month running average leading up to that was 1,781.8 unique visitors per month. Since I posted something every day, again, I can say that’s an average of 112.2 views per posting, above the twelve-month average of 100.6. And 59.4 unique visitors per post, technically above the twelve-month average of 58.6.
There were 142 things that got liked around here in July. That’s not all stuff published in July; just something someone read in July. The twelve-month average was 165.8 likes per month. That’s 4.6 likes per post on average in July, down from 5.5 likes per post in the twelve-month average. There were 18 comments in July, way down from the twelve-month average of 42.3. This is on average 0.6 comments per posting, way down from the already poor 1.4 comments per posting in the twelve-month running average.
So, yes, I worked out twelve-month running averages in my spreadsheets.
469 separate pages got at last one page view in July. There’d been 401 separate pages in June. 182 different pages got only a single page view, up from the 154 single-view pages of June. The greatest number of page views were all from comic strip posts, naturally:
- What’s Going On In Judge Parker? Is Judge Parker Going To Jail? February – May 2019
- What’s Going On In Rex Morgan, M.D.? What’s With Edward’s Dog Not Being Seen? February – April 2019
- What The Heck Happened To Nancy and Why Does It Look Weird?
- Is the comic strip Henry ending? Is the comic strip Hazel ending?
- What’s Going On In Judge Parker? Did Marie kill her husband? December 2018 – February 2019
I’m not surprised that so many people want to know the heck is with Judge Parker, Rex Morgan, or Nancy. I’m not sure what’s so curiosity-arousing about Henry and Hazel but I’m glad to be of use.
The most popular of my not-comic-strip related stuff was an essay from October, Everything There Is To Say In Explaining How Computer Graphics Work. This is a piece I’d forgotten entirely and I like rediscovering it. Thank you for your choice, readers.
70 countries or country-like entities sent me readers in July. There’d been 69 such in June and 75 in May. That seems about my standard. Here’s the roster:
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 2,441 |
| India | 354 |
| Canada | 109 |
| Australia | 56 |
| United Kingdom | 48 |
| South Africa | 35 |
| Romania | 33 |
| Philippines | 30 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 27 |
| Spain | 25 |
| Austria | 22 |
| Brazil | 22 |
| Germany | 22 |
| Netherlands | 19 |
| Colombia | 18 |
| El Salvador | 16 |
| Italy | 15 |
| Kenya | 14 |
| France | 10 |
| Japan | 10 |
| Mexico | 10 |
| Finland | 8 |
| Portugal | 8 |
| New Zealand | 7 |
| Nigeria | 7 |
| Malaysia | 6 |
| South Korea | 6 |
| Sweden | 6 |
| Taiwan | 6 |
| Denmark | 5 |
| Singapore | 5 |
| Ukraine | 5 |
| Argentina | 4 |
| Belgium | 4 |
| European Union | 4 |
| Indonesia | 4 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 |
| Egypt | 3 |
| Israel | 3 |
| Jamaica | 3 |
| Norway | 3 |
| Pakistan | 3 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 |
| American Samoa | 2 |
| China | 2 |
| Greece | 2 |
| Ireland | 2 |
| Switzerland | 2 |
| Thailand | 2 |
| Vietnam | 2 |
| Albania | 1 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | 1 |
| Brunei | 1 |
| Croatia | 1 |
| Cyprus | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 1 |
| Ecuador | 1 |
| Estonia | 1 |
| Guam | 1 |
| Hungary | 1 (*) |
| Iceland | 1 (*) |
| Jordan | 1 |
| Kuwait | 1 (*) |
| Macedonia | 1 |
| Morocco | 1 |
| Peru | 1 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Russia | 1 |
| Serbia | 1 |
| Tunisia | 1 |
Hungary, Iceland, and Kuwait were single-reader countries the previous month too. There weren’t any countries on a three-month single-reader streak. There were 20 single-reader countries in July, compared to the 18 in June and 19 in May. So that’s all holding about steady.
What have I got planned for the coming month? A long-form essay, published Thursday evening, Eastern Time, for one. Statistics Saturday posts, for as long as I can continue thinking of things to list. And of course What’s Going On In the story comics. Barring surprises, and there can be surprise or breaking news I’m planning to feature:
- Roy Thomas and Alex Saviuk’s The Amazing Spider-Man reruns, 11 August.
- Jonathan Lemon and Joey Alison Sayers’s Alley Oop, 18 August.
- Tony DePaul and Mike Manley’s The Phantom (weekday continuity), 25 August.
- Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates’s Prince Valiant, 1 September.
- Joe Staton, Mike Curtis, Shelley Pleger, and Shane Fisher’s Dick Tracy, 8 September.
From the start of 2019 through the start of August I’d published 210 posts, for a total of 125,099 words. This was 18,921 words in all. That’s 610.3 words per post in July, way above June’s average of 463.5 words per post. I had thought I was writing shorter but all that Judge Parker talk is complicated. My year-to-date average post has had 593 words per post, which is just what the year-to-date average was at the start of July. This seems like I must have calculated something wrong.
Through the start of August there’d been a total 283 comments, an average of 1.3 comments per posting. That’s the same average as at the start of July. There’d been an average 5.2 likes per posting, down from the 5.3 at the start of July.
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