Stat Porn 2009 : Who Read Guido – Guy Fawkes’ blog
By Nick Kurentz on Mar 12, 2010 in Analytics
2009 was the break-through year for this blog, traffic averaged out at some 2 million page views a month from 1,807,954 visitors according to Guido’s server analytics. Think you can guess the most popular story of the year?
Wrong. It was the Letter to Miliband, a post from 2007.
After the search engines, the biggest source of traffic referral remains Iain Dale, he sent an average of 50,000 visitors a month Guido’s way, more than twice as much as the next biggest referrer; The Spectator, with PoliticsHome, the BBC and PoliticalBetting.com making up the rest of the top 5. Guido’s own Twitter feed and the weekly Guidogram email were in the top 10 referrers along with the Telegraph, Guardian and Times.
The largest identifiable portion of readers come from Parliament’s servers – not surprising when over a quarter of MPs surveyed admit to being readers – the rest must be lying.
The Top 100 readership sources:
| 1. houses of parliament | 51. icap plc |
| 2. oxford university | 52. uk-reuters |
| 3. university of cambridge | 53. policy exchange |
| 4. british broadcasting corporation | 54. cardiff university |
| 5. conservative central office | 55. royal bank of scotland |
| 6. associated newspapers ltd | 56. university of liverpool |
| 7. imperial college london | 57. bloomberg financial market |
| 8. deutsche bank | 58. parliamentary communications |
| 9. news international | 59. university of bath |
| 10. telegraph group limited |
60. queen mary and westfield college
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