To make sure this blog is still on the right track - that it is topical and holds interest for readers - I do an annual review of the traffic this blog receives. A little over a year has passed since the last review and as this blog just had its three millionth view today, I thought it a good time to do the annual statistical round-up. If you're interested, here's the data.
- Of traditional readers (people who visit the blog through normal web browsing) the last full month (May) shows 52,000. Total visits since the beginning of the blog is a little over 3 million.
- Google Friend Connect is at 267. It's not a popular service, but people still add and remove themselves monthly.
- The number one referrer (after removing search engines from the mix) is Facebook, which is new. Of blogs the leader continues to be my good friend at Ad Orientem.
- Although not much publicized, this blog has a Twitter feed with 1,415 followers, last year's total was 1,046.
In the last few months I've been asked to merge this blog into larger blogging efforts. So far I haven't acquiesced, but who knows what the future will bring. This blog has followed me from home, to seminary, to the priesthood. I appreciate your reading it and joyfully declare that "Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen!"
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I found this blog from your twitter feed. I have become a regular reader and find it enjoyable and informative. In fact, due to this blog I will be attending the enthronement of the new Bishop in Dallas next week.
ReplyDeletePlease keep up the good work.
Dominus Vobiscum,
+ Ronald Moore
Bishop of West Texas
The Primitive Catholic Church
Thanks for your faithful work on this blog. It's my most trusted non-establishment, non-crazy source of news of the Orthodox world.
ReplyDelete"Larger blogging efforts"?? The Ancient Faith family maybe? No opinion on whether this would be good; I'd keep following it, "merged" or not.
I love your webpage (blog). Please don't change a thing ... it's great as is.
ReplyDeleteI like your blog. It's the only Orthodox blog I read regularly and find it reliable to keep up with news from the world of Orthodoxy. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is great. Essential reading. I follow using Newsblur. There do sometimes seem to be issues there with the RSS feed and story text not displaying... but I click over here to read.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is great. Essential reading. I follow using Newsblur. There do sometimes seem to be issues there with the RSS feed and story text not displaying... but I click over here to read.
ReplyDeleteAs long as a merger into "larger blogging efforts" doesn't change what and how you post even by subtle suggestions...or mean a more complicated experience for us to get to it...This blog is a wonderful resource, thank you Father.
ReplyDeleteI too support the work you're doing. I check in here once, sometimes twice a day, every day.
ReplyDeleteI too support the work you're doing. I check in here once, sometimes twice a day, every day.
ReplyDeleteHave been reading your blog for 10yrs or so. Love it. Please don't merge with something larger. I've seen it happen with other blogs/news sites in the past and I've never liked the results. I hate change. ;)
ReplyDeleteit would be nice if you stopped sharing Putin's propaganda (what you do from time to time), tho
ReplyDeleteHalf of Orthodox reporting is propaganda / selective truths. I'd only post pics of baptisms and flower arrangements if I kept it 100% unimpeachable. Still, you always comment on Russian material so I know there will be "balance."
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