Last year I was too exhausted to celebrate my blog's third birthday. So I am writing this ahead of the date this year to ensure I remember to mark its fourth birthday!
[Image description: cakes! %P]
I can scarcely believe that there have been nearly 412,000 viewings. My greatest success numerically (with 145,468) by far is my blog-post from June 2012 Alan Turing: a Queer Hero, which I suspect was boosted by the release in 2015 of a biopic on the said computer scientist & mathematician.
The second most viewed item is the same as two years ago, from October 2013, Bloom Brasserie @ Bloom Live,
which has reached nearly 83,084 hits. A shame that the venue closed some "two months later - hopefully not due to my review!"
And still in third place is my second report on my favourite male musician, from June 2013, Matt Alber in Birmingham (not Alabama!), which has been visited on some 74,708 occasions.
Whilst
large numbers do not read all my postings, I am just as happy when
handfuls of folk read my poems. Especially pleasurable is when some
reader picks one from early on in the blog's history, as this says to me
that the person has actually looked out the poem for some reason.
[Image description: map of top-ten countries; list of top-ten countries with number of page views.
The screen-shot was taken on 24th April, two days prior to the fourth anniversary]
Two years ago my blog was mainly visited by UK and US readers, then France, Germany and Sweden. At that time these five countries constituted two-thirds of my readership. Now the US represents more than half of all my viewings. Then the UK followed very closely by France. Germany is still in fourth position. But Russia has leapt up the chart to fifth position, with Sweden still making the top-ten at number nine.
The index of terms that appears at the bottom of every blog-page has increased to 189 words that appear four or more times.
The top-fifteen terms are listed in the chart above.
#1 disabled with 67 references
#2 review with 41
#3 disability with 35
#4 blog with 30
#5 Manchester & poetry each with 27
#7 wheelchair with 25
#8 DWP with 24
#9 WoWPetition with 23
#10 Facebook, service & Spain each with 22
#13 Benalmádena, queer & UK each with 20
The above chart lists the rest of the double-digit entries, a further twenty terms. There are now a total of thirty-five terms with ten or more references, as opposed to seventeen back in 2014. All the words listed in 2014 are still contained in the two charts above. Thus, my prediction back then, that the same issues would continue to be of interest to me, was pretty much spot-on.
Dozens of new terms have been added to the four-plus club. The most notable (with five or more) are listed in the above chart. The new entry with the highest references is Newcastle-upon-Tyne. I took a holiday there, so had lots to relate. Other than that the terms cover travel, health, food, politics and disability issues. I suppose that fairly sums up my life!
Blogging Against Disablism Day 2016 (#BADD2016) is on 1st May. I am hoping to host a gallery of artworks that may speak to folk with disabilities as well as a blog-post on "Art for All". Additionally May is International M.E. Awareness month, so I am hoping I shall be well enough to add something to that. Additionally, I have my fingers crossed that I can write up about more of the things I did on my recent trip to Berlin, supported and cared for by two wonderful assistants (thank you both). Perhaps the reader might be enticed to return for one of more of these.
As ever: many thanks to my seven stalwart followers (feel free to join them if you care to do so) and of course the many, many readers across the globe (except Antarctica - still!). xxx
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