The subject line gives it away, unless I change the subject line. Another Blog, Meanwhile saw the readership from Finland return to what seems like a normal level after April’s big spike. Without that, and without the number of people looking for my Paas Easter Egg color pictures, the monthly readership figures are more normal.
They’re also lower. There were, according to WordPress, 4,378 page views here in May. That’s a great number compared to, say, 2019. But it’s a fair bit below the running mean of 5,078.5 views per month for the twelve months running up to May. And the running median, less vulnerable to weird fluctuations, of 4,585 views per month. There were 2,501 recorded unique visitors, below the running mean of 2,736.5 and running median of 2,616.5. Not too much lower, though.
There were 188 likes given in May, a greater number than any month since May 2021 somehow. It’s well above the running mean of 154.3 and running median of 154.5 likes in a month. (And not all these likes went to things published in May.) There were 43 comments, below the mean of 56.3 and median of 53, but still a respectable number as I make these things out to be.
My most popular posts of May were the usual mix of me talking about comic strips or cartoons, with a dose of old-time radio and me generally complaining mixed in:
- Sherman’s Lagoon is on GoComics now, not Comics Kingdom
- What’s Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? Is anything real happening in The Phantom? February – May 2022
- Pine Ridge is up for sale
- 60s Popeye: Popeye And The Polite Dragon, with a shocking revelation about Popeye’s ancestors
- Comics Kingdom Is Never Going to Make Sunday Comics Readable on Computers
My most popular piece of original comic writing was In Which I Am Terror-Stricken, culmination of a set of second thoughts I had about the thing I devoted most of March and April to.
But, as mentioned, it’s the story strip plot recaps that bring so many readers here. My plan for the coming month is to cover these strips, on these dates:
- Jim Scancarelli’s Gasoline Alley (7 June)
- Jules Rivera’s Mark Trail (14 June)
- Karen Moy and June Brigman’s Mary Worth (21 June)
- Tony DePaul and Jeff Weigel’s The Phantom (Sundays) (28 June)
- Terry Beatty’s Rex Morgan, M.D. (5 July)
As ever, this is subject to change as breaking news warrants.
75 countries sent me page views in May, down from April’s 81. 17 of them were single-view countries, the same number as in April. Here’s the roster of those countries, and take a look at the big exciting news for one of them. Do you spot it? I’ll let you know after the strangely popular table of countries.
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 3,073 |
| United Kingdom | 171 |
| India | 157 |
| Canada | 125 |
| Germany | 90 |
| Australia | 72 |
| Philippines | 51 |
| Brazil | 41 |
| Thailand | 36 |
| El Salvador | 35 |
| Italy | 35 |
| Nigeria | 32 |
| France | 28 |
| Spain | 26 |
| Finland | 24 |
| South Africa | 24 |
| Ireland | 22 |
| Sweden | 22 |
| Netherlands | 21 |
| Singapore | 19 |
| Austria | 17 |
| Vietnam | 17 |
| Malaysia | 16 |
| Romania | 16 |
| Peru | 15 |
| Argentina | 12 |
| Japan | 11 |
| Colombia | 9 |
| Czech Republic | 9 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 9 |
| New Zealand | 9 |
| Mexico | 8 |
| Portugal | 8 |
| Norway | 7 |
| Denmark | 6 |
| Ecuador | 6 |
| Greece | 6 |
| Switzerland | 6 |
| Indonesia | 5 |
| Nepal | 5 |
| Pakistan | 5 |
| Poland | 5 |
| European Union | 4 |
| Mauritania | 4 |
| Russia | 4 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 |
| Turkey | 4 |
| Venezuela | 4 |
| Belgium | 3 |
| Chile | 3 |
| Croatia | 3 |
| Cyprus | 3 |
| South Korea | 3 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 |
| Bangladesh | 2 |
| Jamaica | 2 |
| Kenya | 2 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 |
| Bulgaria | 1 |
| Cambodia | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| Greenland | 1 |
| Guatemala | 1 |
| Hungary | 1 |
| Israel | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 (*) |
| Kuwait | 1 |
| Lesotho | 1 |
| Malta | 1 |
| Montenegro | 1 (*) |
| Oman | 1 |
| Palestinian Territories | 1 |
| Qatar | 1 (*) |
| Serbia | 1 (*) |
| Slovenia | 1 |
Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Qatar, and Serbia sent me a single page view in April also. There’s no countries to have sent me a single page view three months running now. But did you notice it? That’s right, I got me a reader in Greenland! Woo-hoo!
WordPress figures I posted 17,161 words in May, my second-most for any month this year. That’s 553.6 words per posting in May, although my average for the year remains 552 words per posting. Between the start of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and the start of June, I’ve posted 3,407 things to this blog. They’ve drawn 298,200 views from 168,914 visitors.
And I’m happy to have readers, regular or sporadic. The easiest way to read me regularly is to add the RSS feed for essays to whatever your reader is. If you don’t have an RSS reader, you can get one by signing up for a free account at Dreamdwith or Livejournal and put them on your Reading page. If you’ve got a WordPress account, you can click on the “Follow Another Blog, Meanwhile” button on the upper right corner of this or any page. If you’ve got an e-mail account, you can use the box beneath that to get posts sent you as they’re published. To read sporadically, carry on with whatever you’ve been doing. It’ll probably work out all right. Thank you.
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I can’t seem to find your essay “Has the Guy Who Draws Hagar the Horrible Ever Even Seen A Dragon?”, has it been moved to behind your paywall?
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Oh, I don’t dare put anything I’ve written behind a paywall, no. I don’t have enough income to pay people to read it.
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