November Blog Rankings

Written by Ben Ross - Talking Auckland

Doing well

 

Myself and Radio NZ's Todd Nial hard at work reporting on the Budget Committee Photo Reference: Councillor Cathy Casey
Myself and Radio NZ’s Todd Nial hard at work reporting on the Budget Committee
Photo Reference: Councillor Cathy Casey

The November New Zealand Blog rankings are out at Open Parachute. The reblog function over there isn’t working so a good old manual copy paste here.

First of all the ranking for what was indeed a busy November:

November ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking

Posted on December 1, 2014 | 1 Comment

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Image Credit: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PAGEVIEWS & VISITOR

 

You can see data for previous months at Blog Ranks

 

Rank Blog Visits/month Page Views/month
1 Whale oil beef hooked 1776421 2981810
2 Kiwiblog 301119 522519
3 The Standard 194646 431100
4 The Daily Blog 160716 259736
5 Transport Blog 151471 155907
6 Liturgy 40475 58099
7 The Dim-Post 38134 51999
8 Throng New Zealand 33246 62749
9 NewZeal 27100 33823
10 No Right Turn 25643 34423
11 Sciblogs 22322 28420
12 On the Left 18739 30009
13 13th Floor 17506 23535
14 No Minister 17445 24253
15 Music of sound 15324 19297
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30 Talking Auckland 7738 10323

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Source: http://openparachute.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/november-14-nz-blogs-sitemeter-ranking/

 

A break down of the stats for Talking Auckland shows:

Source: http://statcounter.com/p10056514/summary/monthly-rpu-labels-bar-currentyear/

 

The Site Meter graph goes further back but I chose Stat Counter as it was more reliable.

 

Talking Auckland though did break the following records:

  • Over the 10,000 view monthly mark for the first time
  • New view monthly record (previous one was 9,800 during the Unitary Plan feedback round in May 2013)
  • New unique visit record at 7,700 which broke the last one at 7,000 in October

 

Talking Auckland was never designed to be as large nor take on Whale Oil in size. Talking Auckland was designed to cover Auckland issues as they occurred with a sprinkling of “off topic” matter along the way. Talking Auckland also acts as  a digital repository for things like submissions and presentations, a discussion platform, and an advocate vehicle on issues that come up from time to time. Of course the blog adapts to the changing environment but things are going quite well.

 

As we head into the Summer break Talking Auckland will be switching over to the Summer Series between December 18 and January 23 when the Long Term Plan starts its consultation rounds. The Summer Series is where the blog goes on holiday and lots of Summer pictures come up. If any big breaking Auckland stories come up I will blog on them as per normal.

 

And so a very big thanks to readers and commenters (whether on the blog, Twitter, and/or Facebook). Without you the blog wouldn’t be possible.

December as I mentioned earlier Talking Auckland slows down as we go into the Summer break. But we will be back no doubt with hiss and roar late January as the Long Term Plan consultations kick off.

 

So again my thanks – and to a nice long hot Summer ahead 🙂