Last year, I marked my five years blogging anniversary with the big stats post, Which Posts Get Popular. This year, I am going to mark my six years blogging anniversary with another stats post, focusing on blog visitors.

As mentioned in the previous post, blog statistics may differ depending on who you are as a blogger. Also, my meagre 200 posts in total are on the low side for statistical analysis. In any case, this post is meant as a bit of fun.

1. Blog visitors: Where do they come from?

Geographically, my blog visitors are concentrated in a few areas. US residents account for 38% of all blog visits and the Top Ten countries account for as much as 78%.

Even if numbers are low in most regions, it is nice to see visitors from a variety of countries visiting my blog. Hopefully, I will fill out the blank spots over the next few years.

2. Blog Visitors: How do they find me?

57% of all visits to my blog are referred from other websites. The most common source is search engines (92% of all referrals) and amongst the search engines, Google unsurprisingly dominates (98% of all search engine referrals).

So I could stop here and conclude that Google is the one dominating source of visitors. But where would be the fun in that? So let’s dig into some of the other sources.

2.1 WordPress Reader
When I started out as a new blogger, the WordPress Reader was a good source of visitors. As a new blogger, it takes time to get a good SEO ranking and I got very few views from Google and other search engines. Today it is completely reversed and the WordPress Reader only plays a minor role. I should add, that the stats in this section are from Jan 23 – Mar 25 to give a good picture of how things are now.

2.2 Social Media
As someone who doesn’t use Social Media, I was surprised to see views coming from these. If you are one of the people who have linked my posts, thanks so much! I guess the stats in this category are rather random, since I don’t use Social Media myself, but it looks like Facebook gives me the most views.

2.2 Education
My blog also gets views from websites related to schools, learning and education. There are too many websites to list them all, but again Google dominates with Google Classroom (36%). By the way, if you are a student who had to read one of my blog posts in connection with a course, I apologise!

2.2 Chatbots
When ChatGPT was introduced, it was discussed whether it would completely take over from traditional search engines. This would be sad for bloggers, since you can consume content via ChatGPT and other chatbots, without visiting the websites providing the information. Nevertheless, traditional search engines still exist and these days, they also utilise the chatbot technology to answer your questions and summarize content. And as it turns out, chatbots sometimes do refer to concrete sources. I’ve started to get views from them during the last couple of years.

2.2 Other Blogs
Finally, I want to mention other blogs, especially blogs hosting a meme. During the last couple of years, I have got most views from caffeinatedbookreviewer.com, who hosts Sunday Post.

3. Search Terms

Which search terms bring people to my blog? Since most viewers are referred by Google, a good overview can be seen in the Google Search Console. I feel, other bloggers have written about interesting and fun search terms in the past, but unfortunately I didn’t spot anything particularly interesting. It was pretty much, what could be expected.

No matter how you’ve found me, I highly appreciate everyone who has visited my blog during the last 6 years. Cheers!