Not quite 110,000 visitor sessions in September, which suggests that roughly 1 out of 5 visitors who used to come here last Spring were here for the law school news, and so have migrated, accordingly, to the new site. That means the rest of you are here for politics/culture, philosophy news, or philosophy, or all three!
56% of visitors last month were repeat visitors (the actual number of repeat visitors is no doubt a bit higher, since some folks view the site from different computers), down from the more typical 65% repeat visitors last Spring. One explanation is that the longer the site is around, and the more hits it gets, the more often it turns up as a result in random Google searches.
I last posted about the country of origin of visitors in early January of 2005. There have been a few changes since (though bear in mind that this data is aggregated from the start of the blog, in August 2003, so any country that has increased its share of the readership in the last nine months must have actually had a higher percentage of the visits than the number reported below).
The U.S. accounted for about 81% of the visits, the same as in January.
The U.K. accounted for 5.5% of visits, up slightly from 5.2% as of last January.
Canada now accounts for 4.7% of all visits to the blog, up significantly from 3.9% of all visits for the period from August 2003 until early January 2005.
Australia accounted for 1.2% of all visits, down from 1.6% as of early January of this year.
Other regions of note (with the January figure in parentheses):
Continental Europe: 2.2% (2.3%)
Germany: .8% (.6%)
France: .3% (.4%)
Scandinavia: .7% (.8%--Finland used to account for 2/3rds of this total, but now accounts for less than half)
Japan: .5% (.6%)
Singapore: .3% (.4%)
Visits from Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and New Zealand each account for .2% of the visits--that could, of course, be just a handful of very loyal readers!
Essentially, there appears to have been a non-trivial increase in visitors from Britain and Canada in the last nine months, which pushed down the percentage of total visitors from most other places.
And, remember, the blogging schedule will be different while I'm in London.
Thanks to all for reading.
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