Blog statistics 2013

With the year 2014 just on the other side of the horizon it is that time again, time for the compilation of my annual report. This statistical survey needs to see the (short) light of day. Fortunately the world does not consist of stats and figures only. But if you are a "list man", which I am, publishing this survey is nothing less than an obligation. Why? An obligation to whom? Well, that's a good question, next question please.

To provide you with these statistics I use the figures published by Blogger. Some of these figures are published in two different places. Take for instance the page views for each post. They are shown in a top 10 list and also against each individual post. They should be the same but they aren't. There is a possibility to indicate whether you want to include or exclude the page views you cause yourself. I always exclude those so that cannot be the reason. In any case, I publish what Blogger tells me...

In 2012 I joined Alan Burnett's happy crowd of Sepia Saturday bloggers, one of the best "blogging decisions" I ever made. It was a tremendous stimulus to write a weekly post about subjects that are close to my heart. However, in 2013 I said goodbye to them. Why? Well, I feel that if you participate, you have to go all the way. In this case that means that you have to read the blogs of your fellow Sepians and leave a comment of some sort. Usually there are at least 30 interesting blogs to look at. After almost a year that appeared to be too time consuming. Most of the time it took the better part of a weekend to accomplish this task. So, much to my regret I had "to resign". But occasionally I drop in and have a look at the blogs of some of my "old" friends. During one of those visits I read that Alan proposed to have a book published to celebrate the 200th week of Sepia Saturday. Every Sepian was welcome to join. So I did together with close to 70 fellow bloggers. I am now the proud owner of The Best Of ... For those interested, this piece of virtual  literature can now be ordered in a tangible form. Just click on the link hereafter and become the proud owner of a book that soon will be a collectors item. The price is € 7,56 excl. shipping or whatever that is in your currency.

As you can see in the stats below, my depart from Sepia Saturday and other circumstances caused a dramatic blog production drop. But I hope you will agree with me that apart from blogging there are also other things in life worth pursuing. With this profound remark I invite my dear readers, to have a look at the figures and see what y'all accomplished in 2013. Thank you very much for visiting my blog! 

2013	Page views	Posts	Views/day
Jan	6,505	6	210
Feb	5,398	5	193
Mar	4,990	5	161
Apr	4,262	4	142
May	5,754	6	186
Jun	5,311	12	177
Jul	3,814	0	123
Aug	4,426	4	143
Sep	3,068	0	102
Oct	2,834	1	91
Nov	3,160	2	105
Dec	3,143	3	101
Year	52,665	48	144
vs 2012	+36%	-54%

Most popular posts: top 10/2013	Page views
An American Moor in Leiden	434
Sepia Saturday - Sales Promotion	367
Dutch born abroad	326
Home! Sweet home!	303
Orie's, all-in the family?	292
Sepia Saturday - Snow	283
Sepia Saturday - The watchman	253
Sepia Saturday - Auntie Miriam	234
Sepia Saturday - Words, words, words	223
My coat of arms	187

Between brackets last years ranking.

Most popular browsers u/i 2013	% Page views
Chrome (1)	30%
Internet Explorer (2)	29%
Firefox (3)	22%
Safari (4)	7%
Opera (5)	6%
Most popular OS u/i 2013	% Page views
Windows (1)	78%
Linux (3)	7%
Macintosh (2)	6%
iPad (4)	3%
Android/iPhone (5/6)	2%
Origin countries u/i 2013            Page views Netherlands (1) 39,544 United States (2) 19,006 Russia (3) 5,322 France (5) 4,701 Germany (4) 3,034 UK (7) 1,488 Belgium (6) 1,378 Canada (8) 562 Australia (9) 478 Ukraine (-) 421

All time top 5 most popular posts	Page views
Dutch ancestors	9,462
Dutch surname equivalents abroad	7,716
Born in Nederlands Indië/Dutch East Indies	2,154
Our aircraft - 12	812
Saved from the dustbin - 2	680

In the category First time visits per country it is worth mentioning that this year we passed the 10,000 visitors mark for The Netherlands as well as the 3,000 mark for the USA. From the start in 2008 Blogger recorded a total of 94,000 page views.

I wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2014! 
Last year I showed you a home made video of the New Year firework here in Castricum, The Netherlands. This year I'll display one of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen. It is made by the Hubble Space Telescope and shows the spiral galaxy Messier 106. Speaking of firework ...

Spiral galaxy Messier 106 (click to enjoy!)

Blog statistics 2011

Blog statistics 2012

Image credits: 

Stats (c) Can Stock Photo 

Messier 106 scientias.nl