I must admit that it feels like I've slowed down a lot in recent months. I moved to a new department at work in March of this year and a new role which has been quite demanding of my energy and creativity! Rather than giving up on my blogging, I've decided to continue at a slower pace.
It's been hard work at times during the last six months and I've also felt a bit restricted by having my reading, listening, culture explorations limited to the place I'm currently blogging about - so I've branched out a bit recently and expanded the scope of my learning beyond this blog, which has also slowed me down (but hopefully not too much!)
To date, I've blogged about 39 countries/places around the world, including four new places since my last blogiversary: Palestine, Quebec, Reunion and (not yet finished) Solomon Islands. Highlights of the past year have included listening to Palestinian music, discovering the movies of Xavier Dolan, reading in French and learning about the beachcombers of the South Pacific.
Some stats
My blog has had 64,284 page views, almost a 40% increase since this time last year. April this year saw the most page views ever in a single month at 2,582 so it seems that Learning about the World is more popular than ever!
It's interesting to compare the top twenty countries to my blog this year with last year - in general it seems as though the blog has been steadily growing in popularity in places like Australia, Canada, Germany and France. Other countries seem to be losing interest (Saudi Arabia, Barbados, India), perhaps because my blog posts about those countries are 'older' now?
There are some new entries to the top 20 list; Kenya, Russia and China, whilst a few other countries have dropped out of the top 20 list (Belgium, Brazil and UAE).
The USA and UK continue to provide the majority of hits on my blog, with people in the US making up almost 35% of my readership in the past year.
The top twenty
1. United States (-)
2. United Kingdom (-)
3. Australia (+1)
4. Canada (+1)
5. India (-2)
6. Germany (+1)
7. France (+3)
8. Kenya (new!)
9. Netherlands (+6)
10. Italy (-4)
11. Cambodia (+1)
12. Russia (new!)
13. China (new!)
14. New Zealand (+2)
15. Malaysia (+4)
16. Spain (+2)
17. Japan (new!)
18. Saudi Arabia (-7)
19. Barbados (-5)
20. Ireland (-14)
The blog has had visitors from 166 countries in total (9 new countries since last year) and the newest country to appear on my readership list was Cameroon in July 2015.
Popular posts
You can see a list of the ten most popular posts of all time below:
And it's interesting to compare this with the ten most popular posts when I blogged about this last year:
Sum total of my learning
Since last September, in my pursuit of learning I have:
Read 21 books
Watched 18 movies
Learned how to cook 4 new dishes
Listened to countless hours of Palestinian rap, Leonard Cohen, maloya and Pacific reggae!
I'm looking forward to another year of learning, reading, cooking, movie-watching and blogging - don't forget to join me!
To date, I've blogged about 39 countries/places around the world, including four new places since my last blogiversary: Palestine, Quebec, Reunion and (not yet finished) Solomon Islands. Highlights of the past year have included listening to Palestinian music, discovering the movies of Xavier Dolan, reading in French and learning about the beachcombers of the South Pacific.
Some stats
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| Worldwide visits to Learning about the World |
It's interesting to compare the top twenty countries to my blog this year with last year - in general it seems as though the blog has been steadily growing in popularity in places like Australia, Canada, Germany and France. Other countries seem to be losing interest (Saudi Arabia, Barbados, India), perhaps because my blog posts about those countries are 'older' now?
There are some new entries to the top 20 list; Kenya, Russia and China, whilst a few other countries have dropped out of the top 20 list (Belgium, Brazil and UAE). The USA and UK continue to provide the majority of hits on my blog, with people in the US making up almost 35% of my readership in the past year.
The top twenty
1. United States (-)
2. United Kingdom (-)
3. Australia (+1)
4. Canada (+1)
5. India (-2)
6. Germany (+1)
7. France (+3)
8. Kenya (new!)
9. Netherlands (+6)
10. Italy (-4)11. Cambodia (+1)
12. Russia (new!)
13. China (new!)
14. New Zealand (+2)
15. Malaysia (+4)
16. Spain (+2)
17. Japan (new!)
19. Barbados (-5)
20. Ireland (-14)
Popular posts
You can see a list of the ten most popular posts of all time below:
And it's interesting to compare this with the ten most popular posts when I blogged about this last year:
Sum total of my learning
Since last September, in my pursuit of learning I have:
Read 21 books
Watched 18 movies
Learned how to cook 4 new dishes
Listened to countless hours of Palestinian rap, Leonard Cohen, maloya and Pacific reggae!
I'm looking forward to another year of learning, reading, cooking, movie-watching and blogging - don't forget to join me!
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