Are You In The Stats?

Re-posted from CBO

Page views for this month (ie the last 4 days!) are quite interesting. What would be even more interesting is if 1% of those doing the viewing bought a book from the Black Tower store or even helped support the blog,.

Anyway, since the Peoples Republic of China stopped access to many sites, the new big viewing crowd tends to be the United States and Russia.

Page views by Countries

1251255,0175,017

Entry	Pageviews
United States	5017
Russia	3008
United Kingdom	1357
Germany	547
France	359
Romania	242
United Arab Emirates	158
Canada	131
Japan	127
Portugal	125

Bit weird that Ukraine isn't showing up in these stats since normally it rivals or saome times exceeds views from Russia.  Yes, the UK has had a sudden spurt of interest in the blog.  Germany and France are always in the top ten daily visiting countries. Japan there was been a surge of views from -sorry, I've been listening and reading German again: there have been a surge of views from Japan lately, too.

You'll also notice Portugal and Romania providing views. One country I have noticed more and more in stats is the United Arab Emirates.  Canada I feel always adds a fair balance!  😃

It's always interesting to see how views by countries varies over the blogs. After shutting all but this one and Black Tower Comics & Books there is only one blog I can compare views with...have you guessed which one yet?

Black Tower Comics & Books (1-4 Sept)

Pageviews by Countries

22180180

Entry	Pageviews
United States	180
Germany	35
United Kingdom	24
Portugal	18
France	7
United Arab Emirates	5
Argentina	3
Peru	3
Singapore	3
Poland	2

Interesting. Russia has appeared in the views list before but as this covers just 4 days it's possible there have not been enough views to count. Blogger has a very odd system because I know that there are views from Australia and New Zealand but we see Australia rarely and New Zealand, I think, once. 

I ought to point out that Blogger's owners, Google, do not like any operating system or platforms that it does not own. Google can create problems for other systems and their name interest is money-making not making the world a freer place.  So politics also kick in. But I went into all of this several years ago and it is all quite open a 'secret' so why bore again?

There were regular views from Hong Kong and I believe there were some last week. Singapore seems to be remaining a constant source of views.

But what does this all mean? Let's have a look at CBOs all-time views which will be constantly changing -the UK was never ever in the top 5 before (buy some books!):

Page views by Countries

15,69815,6981,384,7301,384,730

Entry	Pageviews
United States	2384730
China	2128635
United Kingdom	224705
Russia	1180245
France	173512
Ukraine	1127615
Germany	92818
Poland	21844
Bulgaria	18309
Canada	15698

See? Ukraine. Which means I was right: just not many views from there in the past few days. Now compare them to BTC&Bs all time blog views.

Page views by Countries

62962921,89221,892

Entry	Pageviews
United States	21892
Russia	4740
United Kingdom	3175
Germany	2431
France	2062
Unknown Region	1204
Ukraine	1174
Romania	723
United Arab Emirates	684
Canada	629

First thing I notice, and since I normally don't check stats  this surprises me, the new BTC&B blog was re-launched this year there have been a total of 50, 246 views. Again, 1% of them buying books and I'd be reasonably happy! 

"Unknown Region" is a place Google does not recognise....People's Republic of China. 

Since CBO does not get involved in politics and there is no "sexual content" -CBO caters for a universal audience- it is seen as a "safe" blog. Hence CBO gets a truly global audience which, obviously, does get certain cliques very angry (jealous). There is a zero tolerance toward buillying or general nastyness when it comes to comments. You can comment freely and not worry about it.

One thing I note is that the CBO All Time total figures are odd. The Highest number of views should be first but only some are.  Also, there appear to be two sets of Blogger viewing stats -I only discovered that 5-6 years ago. What you see above are the views by countries breakdown but the secondary stats are displayed without a country-by-country break up. This may be why Australia and New Zealand do not appear yet they have provided more views than some of the lower placed countries. The other figure shows CBO view just under 8 million.

As I noted before, I dropped "The UK's" from the Black Tower banner for the simple reason that it did not reflect the audience out there.  And the good thing is, that because of Print On Demand, anyone in any place in the world can order books and have them printed in their own region so all prices/postal charges are local.

I'll make a deal with you: 2% of the current CBO readership buys a Black Tower book -even the lowest priced ones,- CBO will continue into 2021.

To the global CBO readership -and those who visit the BTC&B blog -thank you for dropping by but please consider visiting the Black Tower online store! Thank you.