This year’s Readership Roll Call is over. In the seven days starting on August 12th and finishing on August 19th sixty six people voluntarily identified themselves as being regular readers of this weblog. That’s up from 35 in 2004, an increase of (opens calculator) 88%.
Comparing this to the automatic stats gathering, the last full week had 5426 unique visitors. We can discard this figure as being anything vaguely connected to useful as most of them come from random Google searches never to return, but the reading for 2004 was 2110. That’s an increase of 157%, implying there is a loose correlation between this site’s pagerank and it’s actual readership.
Of those who left a comment, 38 (58%) did so on the Friday with another 12 (18%) following on Saturday. This dropped off to between 2 and 4 for the rest of the week. The implication here is that my readership checks in very regularly, probably daily, with the minority checking in now and then.
Of those who identified themselves in a way I can be certain about, I’ve met 25 (38%) of you in the flesh at some point.
Finally, it would appear my readership is made up of nice people.
And now, since I’m suddenly aware of people watching me, I’d better think of something interesting to write about…
I was away and didn’t chip in. Regular reader, occasional commenter.
So it’s everything above plus one!
Hey, yes. It’s the super-quiet season, people on holiday, no stoodents or bored-sick lecturers.
Damn. I was on holiday, got behind, and have only just now caught up. But normally I’m a once-a-weeker (via Bloglines), and I’ve been a regular (as opposed to intermittent) reader for about six months.