Comments on: Bolt’s hits are bigger smaller than LP’s hits

By: mel

mel — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:38:06 +0000

Graeme Bird is up to 66,777 hits. He must be the biggest thing to come out of New Zealand since the Finn Bros. http://graemebird.wordpress.com/

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:17:28 +0000

Sorry, no, Chris, I agree it would be interesting to know.

By: Chris (a different one)

Chris (a different one) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:43:34 +0000

Kim - np just thought you might have some db scripts which do it for you automatically.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:34:40 +0000

Am I right in interpreting Bolt that only RWDBs use teh Internet? Or doesn’t he read left wing blogs.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:01:17 +0000

I must confess, the 2 hits from Cuba were….. possibly me. However, all the rest are legit.

Its a Latte with bite.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:54:58 +0000

Update: Andrew Bolt is so proud of his “million page impressions” - take that, lefty journos! - he’s written a column in the mainstream media paper that employs him to write his blog to decry the media and talk up “blogging”. Which is what he does. Not media. Go figure. I imagine he’ll take his outsider message to Insiders on Sunday.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:52:10 +0000

most of *them*

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:51:04 +0000

20 countries eh? Were most of the baristas, its being a latte site for the latte set?

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:36:47 +0000

*swaggers in*

Well, I dont like to brag, but Bite my Latte has had over 330 visitors in 2 months. From 20 countries.

And in case you think I am artifically inflating those figures - I can assure you Ive set up the neocounter software to exclude my logons both at home, and work!

Well over 100 comments now, of which up to 56 were not me!

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:36:39 +0000

Chris, I think that such a metric would have to derived by manually counting comments by individual.

The site stats say 22090 comments in the last month. But I think that includes spam comments. I could go back through WP and get an accurate figure excluding spam but it would take a long long time.

So the short answer is no, we don’t know.

By: Chris (a different one)

Chris (a different one) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:24:29 +0000

Mark - do you know how many people regularly (making up some arbitrary threshold like at least once a week) comment on this site? Just curious.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:05:55 +0000

Which we do, sort of, Tony T, in that we report on the unique visitors, visits, page views etc. every month. I don’t know if you mean all the server stats including which pages get most views, etc, referrer stats, etc, but that information in raw form tends to pretty meaningless in the absence of some analysis.

By: Tony T

Tony T — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:34:38 +0000

The plainest way to avoid conjecture about traffic, impressions, views, uniques, and the easiest way to assess it, is to have your stats open for public viewing.

By: Meself

Meself — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:13:49 +0000

“… people who just visit once for an interesting looking post and never return.”

Surely you meant people who just visit once for an interesting looking post and never found one”.

By: Chris (a different one)

Chris (a different one) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:28:31 +0000

I don’t think the you can really compare two sites whether it be page impressions or unique visitors. This site is a group blog, almost an aggregation of individual blogs.

Unique visitor information would be useful - I’d guess Bolt would have a higher ratio of unique visitors because of all the links he gets from the news sites. More people who just visit once for an interesting looking post and never return.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:44:31 +0000

a case of hits-envy?

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:39:18 +0000

Is it dick-waving day? Someone ring NineMSN for comments.

By: mel

mel — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:34:50 +0000

Size isn’t everything, Kim. But well done anyway.

By: Darryl Mason

Darryl Mason — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:08:34 +0000

Congratz is due to any Australian blog that pulls those sorts of numbers.

But Bolt’s blog is not strictly an ‘Australian political blog’ as he claims.

Unless you block visitors from outside Australia, every blog is international. I’d also imagine that having one of his columns linked up on Drudge Report for three days or so helped enormously in pushing that total monthly page impression total to over a million.

From what I understand, the Herald Sun and Courier Mail sites that almost daily promote his blog pull more than 500,000 PIs per day, so a million PIs a month doesn’t look so impressive. Still good news, however, for Australian blogs and the further breaking of the MSM strangehold on news, opinion and debate.

How high would Bolt’s PI total be if he went independent, and had to give up all that news.com.au-related traffic? There’s only one way for Bolt to find out, isn’t there?

It always strikes me as stupid that Bolt rages against ‘the media’ while being one of the highest profile (thanks to Murdoch and the ABC) media talking heads in the country. The hypocrisy continues when he always links to a story from SMH or The Age on global warming ‘hysteria’ when his own newspaper, and other Australian Murdoch news websites, run exactly the same stories, often with far more over-the-top headlines.

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:04:03 +0000

a recent check on how much of that traffic was to images suggests only about 1.4%

Really? I’ll have to make more searches on “chicks with guns” more often. (New readers: try it with my compliments).
Oh, and Tim Blair’s post on this post in three, two, one…