Happy birthday

...Happy Birthday to the blog. So, in this special birthday (11/May) edition, I will share my Blogger statistics. I have been keeping my eye on these for a while, it's interesting to me, and hopefully you too, the blog articles that don't get much traffic and those that do. This weekend I'm off to Berlin to meet some friends. I'll name the group members in case I manage to rope some of them in to submitting a guest post. Here goes: Sean Tack, Adam O'Shea, Declan Barry, Cillian Cahill, Dan Wolfe, Darran Diskin, John O'Grady, Mick McEvilly, and then some fellows I don't know, yet, from the Whatsapp group; Simon, Emmet, Robbie, Barry, Craig Atkinson, Ray Reilly and Joe Hasset, then the following ambiguous characters: Am?, 0851246*** and 0863710***.

Overview
This is simply a snapshot of the most important statistics, according to the Blogger engineers. That graph in the top left reflects the fact that there was a spike in May of last year for obvious reasons. The following views can be seen for a variety of timeframes. Since it's for the birthday edition, this will reflect the stats to date.


Posts
The most watched stat on my end. Unsurprisingly it features those blog posts that were shared on social media.

Traffic Sources

Not hugely interesting. This view reports from where the readers navigated to the blog.



Audience
This is interesting. Ireland has held the lead since the start but Germany got its act together some months ago and, inevitably, due to a sheer numbers, it will reach 5K before Ireland. Even if only 10% of Germans are sufficiently competent at understanding English, that gives a greater effective population. The UK, for similar reasons, won't be far behind.

I'll be back next week (probably Sunday), with a review of my tricycle. That has the potential to both make my summer and finish me off. Watch this space.

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