Saturday, June 4, 2016

On reading this blog, the 2016 update

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.
Put together, the data would seem to report that this blog is faring rather well. I am, of course, always happy to receive comments, tweets, or emails on ways this blog could improve.

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!"

12 comments:

  1. 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.

    Please keep up the good work.

    Dominus Vobiscum,

    + Ronald Moore
    Bishop of West Texas
    The Primitive Catholic Church

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  2. Thanks for your faithful work on this blog. It's my most trusted non-establishment, non-crazy source of news of the Orthodox world.
    "Larger blogging efforts"?? The Ancient Faith family maybe? No opinion on whether this would be good; I'd keep following it, "merged" or not.

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  3. I love your webpage (blog). Please don't change a thing ... it's great as is.

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  4. I 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.

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  5. This 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.

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  6. This 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.

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  7. As 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.

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  8. I too support the work you're doing. I check in here once, sometimes twice a day, every day.

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  9. I too support the work you're doing. I check in here once, sometimes twice a day, every day.

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  10. Have 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. ;)

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  11. it would be nice if you stopped sharing Putin's propaganda (what you do from time to time), tho

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    1. Half 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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