February review
Slight downturn in readership
Having become the victim of another childish “walkout” by supporters of the South Tyneside Independent councillors who no longer wish to come and comment here, there has inevitably been a downturn in visitors during February, there’s no point hiding from that fact. Monthly visits have dropped from 21,000 to 17,150, but conversely visitors are now reading an average 5.1 pages each, as pageloads creep closer towards the 100,000 mark . As I stated last month, I have a wider audience to worry about as well as my local readership, so the out turn is not as bad as they might have feared. January had the added benefit of a large amount of traffic driven this way from Iain Dale’s Diary on the story about the South Tyneside Council meeting of that month, as well as some sizeable hits via Reuters about Northern Rock. February has seen large referrals from Guido Fawkes and links to this blog from Nick Robinson at the BBC, Time Magazine, and CNN News!
So in relation to The Northern Herald’s “growing” readership I’m surviving quite nicely.
February’s top ten
These were the top ten posts in the Corner Shop last month ranked by page loads.
