My Saturday retentiveness moment…

Yes, that time again. Sitemeter says the Floating Life suite is averaging 300+ visits (not page views, which is a higher figure) per day at the moment, while English/ESL is around 190 and the late but still existing Ninglun on Blogspot has 4. I guess we can take the latter as evidence of the average for a blog with no updates in a month or two…

WordPress counts show New Lines at 3,322 page views so far this month, the best yet. This blog has 574 so far, which is down on last month; Ninglun’s Specials — which has been subject of much change over the past few weeks — has 3,327, also down on last month, but daily visits seem to be building; Old Lines is down on last month too, but at 5,085 still attracts a lot of interest, despite nothing new there for some time. Floating Life Sans Words is now also sans posts, these having been absorbed into Ninglun’s Specials, but redirects have carefully been placed where the posts were — a lesson I learned from my earlier grand moves from one blog to another. It has had 207 views this month so far, but that should decline.

English/ESL has a healthy 6,654 page views so far, but that is well below last month’s record of 12,000 +!

I have noticed Google is increasingly sending people to the correct blog when they are searching for things that used to be on Ninglun’s Specials but are now on New Lines.

A few top entries from this week, according to WordPress:

Ninglun’s Specials

The Bard, a Rabbit, and Ninglun 31 page views
More tales from my mother 1 — Spencer  29
Family stories 1 — My mother in her own words 20
Family stories 3 — About the Whitfields 17
More tales from my mother 3 — Braefield 17
Family stories 4 — A Guringai Family Story 16
Surry Hills 16

New Lines from a Floating Life

Quick note on the 2020 Summit 19
Australian poem 2008 series #10: Peter S 18
John Cargher 16
Last night on ABC: “East of Everything” 16
Dispatches from another America 16
Australia 2020 Summit 14
Rampant: How a City Stopped a Plague 13
Australian poem 2008 series #12 — Judith Wright recycled 12

Those being active blogs, most people read generically without hitting individual entries, except to comment or read comments.

Old Lines from a Floating Life, on the other hand, is mostly individual post reads following cross-links or searches.

Late Anzac Day thoughts 59
About 57
On the awkwardness (and fatuity?) of discussing religion 55
Assimilation/Integration/Multiculturalism 45
Two Australian poems of World War II 42
4 — Homophobia 37
John Howard: bullying expert extraordinaire 34
Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in Macbeth 32
Friday Australian poem #4: Judith Wright 29
Friday Australian poem #17: Bruce Dawe, 25