Now I get readers from all over the world. The USA comes after Britain in second place in number of readers, with the Russian Federation in third place, and hundreds more visitors from a great scattering of countries.
It's good to think that all these readers can learn a bit about Northampton Market and what is being done to it by our local politicians, against the wishes of the traders and the people of the town. I'm sure it must be awfully good for the public image of the Liberal Democrat Party, not just here but Worldwide. I love to see what's going on behind the local Lib-Dem smokescreen, and tell everyone about it.
The way people read the site is interesting, too. More Americans spend more time on the site than their British counterparts, solidly reading page after page, while the British tend to read only those pages that have the greatest personal interest, and move about more from one article to another. Visitors from the Russian Federation carefully read through most of the pages too, as do those from Luxembourg, China, Canada, and the Ukraine. Germans, like the British, tend to flit about a bit, as do my visitors from the Netherlands.
I get a surprising number of visitors from Tiawan, the Czech Republic, Japan and Brazil, with a slightly lesser number from Australia, Israel, Denmark, and France. Others who have visited this site during the last month include people from Indonesia, Panama, Angola, Philipinnes, Saudia Arabia and Latvia. Almost all of these read whole pages as they went through the site. I hope my English is easily understandable!
As you might expect, 'My Observations' and 'My Letters' get the most hits, followed by some of the more interesting archive items like 'Dirty Old Town' and 'St Edmunds Hospital'. 'Dirty Old Town' is one of my most-read recent articles, which should really please the Liberal Democrats who are thinking of closing down our Town Centre public toilets. What a vile crew they are! Desperate that the town becomes a city, but want to save a few quid by closing a very necessary public facility. If it became a City I suppose I wouldn't be able to call it a dirty old town any more, so we'd have to be sure and find something suitable that rhymes with City...Ahh! Got it, that didn't take long now, and it's a fine robust word.
A gratifying number of people reached this site by typing the address directly into the address bar of their browser, or from a link in an email, or from their Favourites list: some 89%. The next highest number came through search engines like Google and MSN, and the rest came via our Northampton Market website,
http://www.northamptonmarket.biz
with the remainder from Indymedia: http://www.indymedia.org/uk/en/2009/01/419155.html
and the BBC at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/7456429.stm
Amazingly I've been getting as many hits during this last month as back in April during the run-up to the last local elections, with 3787 pages read, and 5302 hits. Many thanks to everyone out there who is spreading the word, sending out links, and making this blog more and more popular. It's great to know I have this sort of support, and I'm always very aware of needing to justify my selection as one of your favourite blogs. I am really surprised and pleased that what started out as a local blog has now spread worldwide.
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