2021 Blog Stats

Image description: Map of the world showing density of visitors by country. The USA is coloured dark pink, the UK medium pink, and the rest of the world pale pink—with some countries (mainly in Africa) showing blank.

For the first time since 2018 the number of people who came to read something increased—by about 11% on last year. There again, I posted more often—though still not much, just 56 posts. (When I first used a blogging platform—as opposed to laboriously hand-coding everything in the Ask Nicola section of my first website, starting in 1995—I was posting daily, on average, and often more. But social media changed the landscape. So now I think four or five times a month works pretty well.)

The Top 10 countries from where my readers log on haven’t changed very much from last year, either, except that I swapped out Norway for Sweden:

USUKCanadaAustraliaGermanyIndiaFranceSwedenIrelandNetherlands

Most of the year’s top 15 new posts or pages were concerned with books, kitties, and Covid, with just a couple of more personal pieces:

SpearSpear Cover RevealFuck Off Into the Sun: I’m Done Being ExcludedMenewood ProgressHelena + Nicola = A Whole PsychopathOmicron—Some New DataA is For Abattoir: 5 words for 2021 So FarKitten Report #17: Songbird FeverCatching UpOmicron: Don’t PanicTwo Year Later and 17 Million DeadKitten Report #20: Not Dead YetI Haz A Ramp!When Accidents Become IconsNew Books To Look For

The top 15 overall were mostly perennial favourites, with just a couple of new ones sneaking into the list:

Men Are Afraid Women Will Laugh At ThemHuge News: Multiple Sclerosis Is a Metabolic DisorderSpearHildSpear Cover RevealFuck Off Into the Sun: I’m Done Being ExcludedA List of Bookshops in the UKBooks About Women Don’t Win Big Awards: Some DataMenewood!!Kitten Report #11: Seven Months Old TodaySo LuckyLame is So GayKitties!About the Real HildAmmonite

What lies ahead for this site in 2022? I don’t know. I’ve given up trying to guess. The only thing I know for sure is that this blog isn’t going anywhere. I like being able to say things too long for Twitter and not pretty enough for Instagram, and here’s the best place for it.