GopherGenealogy Two Year Blogiversary

I am a statistics person, so for the two-year blogiversary I want to again share some of the information provided for this blog through blogspot.com and compare it to the first year. This is a way for me to record this data and track the history of who is reading the posts, where they are located, what types of search engines they use, what browsers they use, what referring sites they are coming from, and what types of posts and pages they are most interested in.


While this blog has a small following of 66, up from 60, it averages about 50 pageviews a day now compared to 25 a day the previous year. The highest pageviews being about 100 for a day for both years. For last year there were 8,630 pageviews, this year 13,151 and a two year total of 21,781. This past month has seen a large increase of viewers and the overall total for the year is considerable. Since September there have been over 1,000 pageviews a month.




The audiences viewing this blog are from the following countries:
                           2011                        2012                Total
United States     6,374                       7,507                 13,881
Russia                   320                         670                      990
Germany               275                         524                      799
Romania               218                           34                       252
Canada                 184                          101                      285
France                  117                          517                      634
Malaysia                86
United Kingdom   78                           310                      388
Latavia                  62                           142                      204
Brazil                    57
Sweden                                                 239
Ukraine                                                184
There were others, this is showing only the top ten.

They searched with the following operating systems:
                     2011                               2012                Total
Windows     7,240 (84%)                   10,580 (82%)   17,821
Macintosh       697 (8%)                          883 (7%)      1,580         
Linux              401 (4%)                          921 (6%)       1,322
Android            99 (1%)                          137 (1%)          236
IPhone                                                     331 (1%)
IPad                                                         216 (<1%)

They used the following browsers:
                                2011                       2012                Total
Internet Explorer    4,212 (49%)           5,069 (42%)     9,782
Firefox                    2,669 (31%)           4,218 (31%)     6,907
Chrome                   861 (10%)              1,777 (12%)     2,638
Safari                      502 (5%)                   870 (6%)       1,372
Opera                      179 (2%)                   864 (4%)       1,043
Mobile Safari                                            189
Mobile                                                       67
Bing Preview                                             36
OSFBSV                                                    35
Gran Paradiso                                            22
There were others, this is showing only the top ten.

The traffic sources are split into two groups with some of the same sources on each.
Referring URLs:
                                   2011                     2012              Total
Geneamusings.com    130                          22                  152
gothise.com                102                          72
google.com                   89                          64
domer.ru                       37                                                  37
purebloggers                 33                           7                     40
puzzlesofthepast.blogsspot.com 25            28                    53
risingtaste.com              23
gophergenealogy                                       642           
glovirginiarootsand vines.blog                   68
google.com search                                      57
There were others, this is showing only the top ten.

Referring Sites:
                                  2011                      2012                Total
google.com                 750                      1,366               2,116
networkblogs.com      266                         106                 372
geneamusings.com     238                          44                  282
gothise.com                103                                                103
domar.ru                       42
geneabloggers.com       38
purebloggers.com         37
facebook.com               37                           66                 103
search.aol.com             22                            28                  50
bing.com                      30
gophergenealogy.blogspot.com                 762
glovirginiarootsandvines.com                      71
blogfindergenealogue.com                           56
puzzlesofthepast.blogspot                            48
There were others, this is showing only the top ten.

The top ten posts:                                                               2011/2012
Genealogy Serendipity Moments The Riggs Family                   853
Genealogy Education - Enhance Your Research                  243/581
Family History/Genealogy Why Do We Do It?                           276
Genealogists - How Our Brains Assimilate Information      218/247
The Jower Family of St. Johns, Oregon - Serendipity                 203
Genealogy Serendipity Moments - The Unvarnished Truth 196/199
Genealogists Shopping List                                                   153/171
Unraveling the Story of the Mystery Urn in Oregon              65/103
A Lovely If Surreal Conversation                                                 96
The Rewards of Military Pension Files and BL Warrants        77/83
1940 Census Coordinated Indexing 70
BYU Conference on FH and Genealogy 2011 64
Genealogy Highlight of the Week 56
Genealogy Serendipity Moment - new.familysearch.org
and the Gates Family 51

The ten pages received the following hits:                        2011/2012
Portland Oregon WWII Article                                                   666
Daniel Tidd Article                                                              313/431
Calendar                                                                               289/406
GFO Bulletin Articles                                                          211/300
Lectures                                                                                187/280
Ole A. Brown Article                                                           138/192
FAQ                                                                                      115/171
Census Form                                                                         100
Book Wish List                                                                       71/157
Book Reviews Published                                                        67/185

Published Comments 43/82
Posts 114/208 (Averaging a little less this year, 94)
Followers 61/66

Recognitions
Jana Last at Jana'sGenealogyandFamilyHistory.blogspot.com
July 13, 2013, At What Cost, Gaining an Education in Genealogy
March 29, 2013, Roots Tech 2013 Live Streaming and other parts
Peggy Clemens Lauritzen
March 2, 2013, Mt. Hood Family History Conference
February 1, 2013 Life as a Genealogy Instructor
Judith Cahill Tarr, ISGS Education Committee
December 21, 2012, Webinars of 2013 A Great Educational Opportunity
Randy Seaver at geneamusings.com
October 6, 2012, A Lovely if Surreal Conversation
April 7, 2012, Unraveling the Story of the Mystery Urn in Oregon
Dear Myrtle, Pat Richley Erickson
October 1, 2012, A Lovely if Surreal Conversation
Leslie Brinkley Lawson of Lawson Research Services, LLC
July 25, 2012, Making Connections With Newly Discovered Siblings
Laurel Smith and Cathy Lauer
July 25, 2012, Genealogical Forum of Oregon
JoAnne Bennett
May 20, 2012, Difficult Family History Issues

My sincere appreciation to my followers, readers, and the genealogy community for your support. Many of you pick this blog up on facebook, where I have about 600 friends, over half of whom are genealogists. The statistics are intriguing, and they provide a picture of what is happening with the blog. It is a fun tool, where I can share my stories, family history, and interesting experiences as a researcher, lecturer, mentor, and volunteer in the wonderful world of genealogy.