Oh dear. Yet another too-much-time-on-my-hands month!
On
Froogville, there were
67 posts (though 20 of those were my largely wordless
'Photography Week' series) and around
19,000 words. (Also, probably the busiest-ever month for comments, with almost 200. However, there were
special reasons for that - see below.)
Yes, it was a frenetic month on Froogville - and all because of one frivolous post about the young nationalist berserkers of China's online forums, the amusing little beasties that we know as the fenqing. First, my blog-pal Jeremiah mentioned it on his Granite Studio blog; then, The Peking Duck, probably the mostly widely read of the laowai China blogs, recommended it. And then, a week later, the illustrious Andrew Sullivan featured it on his blog at The Atlantic. And now, I have just discovered - thanks to the wonders of Google Analytics, which I have only just begun to play with - that I was also featured (translated into Chinese!) in this forum in the fenqing rumpus room that is Anti-CNN (hence a lot of angry Chinese stopping by lately). What does all this do to one's traffic? Well, this (according to Statcounter): More than 600 'unique visitors' in 3 days, following Richard's shout-out on The Duck.
But hey, look, I got very nearly that many in the space of just a few hours after Andrew Sullivan quoted me!
Most of those are going to be one-time-only visitors, I suppose; but.... this final graphic does suggest that, since this flurry of excitement in the middle of last month, the average daily number of my readers has remained higher than before - nearly twice as high, in fact. And I note that, whereas I used to have only a handful of regular readers in the States, and none in China (the 3 or 4 friends that I know follow the blogs here probably all use proxies, and thus don't "show up" as China-based), I now have 30-40 daily visits from the States and 20 from China.
Because of 'The Spike', the number of visits to Froogville last month was very nearly 3,000. I wonder what April's total will be?
The Barstool is still pottering on as before, at around 1,000 visits per month. I wonder what I can do to generate more controversy on there??
Oh, before I go..... I would also like to draw your attention to two recent features that I've linked to in my sidebars: Froog's Beijing Restaurant Guide and Froog's Beijing Bar 'Dead Pool' (predict the next bar to go out of business!). Please go and take a look, and contribute your thoughts.
2 comments:
Just a note to say I'm really enjoying reading your blog. The kind of blog posts you want to *savour*. More! More! Probably helps that I have a China fascination right now, but even if I didn't...
Thanks! — R
Gosh, a fan!!
Thank you, Rebecca. I hope we'll be hearing more from you.
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