Category Archives: Blog stats
November byte counting – blog stats
November has been a busy month for me. With the end of the year fast upon my I had reports, OTJs and just to add to the madness I also made my sister’s wedding cake which would be difficult at the best of times but she lives in on a different island than me. Thus blogging has been extremely light this month with not much time for posting and thus less people reading.
I was surprised to see a sudden spike for a post I wrote back in May, however given the topic was on the dire shortage of teaching jobs and this being hiring season I suppose the two go together.
Right on to the stats.
Posts: 7 (doh!)
Comments: 25
Page Loads: 5350 (178 hits a day)
Biggest day: October 14 (178 hits)
Most commented on post: Has twitter killed the art of blog commenting?
Top five posts:
- Too many teachers, not enough jobs547
- Should students call teachers by their first names?351
- Are teachers born or made?161
- New Zealand Registered Teacher Criteria – E portfolio130
- Weekly Reflection: What is 21st century assessment?119
Top five referrers
- Search engines
- Reflective Teacher
- Gathering the evidence
Coming up in December
Holidays!
Edutourism
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October Byte counting – blog stats
Huge month for traffic on the blog this month – the biggest ever. I wrote a bit more this month but am still struggling to find time to write content. Hopefully this will get better in the future (yes I know I’ve said that a lot this year). Interestingly I’m starting to get a lot of traffic from people looking for requirements for being a registered teacher in New Zealand which I think is very interesting given the recent debates in the public media.
Anyway.
On to the stats.
Posts: 9
Comments: 25
Page Loads: 6,180 (199 hits a day)
Biggest day: October 14 (374 hits)
Most commented on post: Proud to be a part of Teachers & Social Media
Top five posts
- New Zealand Registered Teacher Criteria E-portfolio (570 hits)
- Should students call teachers by their first names? (368 hits)
- Too many teachers, not enough jobs (365 hits)
- Keeping the MAGIC of #ulearn12 going – 5 tips for newbies to twitter (202 hits)
- How ditching the desks turned my classroom into a 21st century learning space (163 hits)
Top Referrers
- Search Engines
- Reflective Teacher
- WordPress
- Google Reader
Coming up in November
Another round of OTJs
Reports
Winding down for the year
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Byte counting – August Blog stats
Huge month for traffic on the blog this month – the biggest ever. I wrote a bit more this month but am still struggling to find time to write content. Hopefully this will get better in the future (yes I know I’ve said that a lot). Interestingly I’m starting to get a lot of traffic from people looking for requirements for being a registered teacher in New Zealand which I think is very interesting given the recent debates in the public media.
Anyway.
On to the stats.
Posts: 10 (whoop)
Comments: 31
Page Loads: 5,558 (185 hits)
Biggest day:September 23 (391 hits)
Most commented on post: Media school league tables neither National nor Standard
Top five posts
- Should students call teachers by their first names? (411 hits)
- Media school league tables neither National nor Standard (308 hits)
- Too many teachers, not enough jobs (307 hits)
- New Zealand Registered Teacher Criteria (202 hits)
- About (18
Top Referrers
- Search Engines
- Reflective Teacher
- StumbleUpon
Coming up in September
Actual school camp
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August blog stats
After a few months of promising more blog posts, I finally upped my output and ended up with one of the biggest months readership wise on the blog. Though it all came down to throwing out desks.
Posts: 9
Comments: 31
Page Loads: 5,380 (174 hits)
Biggest day: August 23 (403 hits)
Most commented on post: How ditching the desks turned my classroom into a modern learning space
Top five posts
- How ditching the desks turned my classroom into a 21st century learning space (785 hits)
- Should students call teachers by their first names? (271 hits)
- Why #wordpress is better than blogspot (256 hits)
- Too many teachers, not enough jobs (178 hits)
- My verbal submission to the inquiry on 21st century learning (150 hits)
Top Referrers
- Search Engines
- Reflective Teacher
- WordPress.com
Coming up in September
Barcamps and Padcamps
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July blog stats – 60,000 hits
Yep still a bad blogger. It’s not that I haven’t had things to blog about and I have an increasing number of posts hanging around in draft form. At some point I will stop moaning about workload.
I hope.
Well onto blogging stats.
Posts: 6 (slightly better)
Comments: 24
Page Loads: 4,170 (135 hits per day)
Biggest day: July 10 (245 hits)
Most commented on post: How I built a culture of reading in my classroom
Top five posts
- Are teachers born or made? 296 hits
- How I built a culture of reading in my classroom 294 hits
- Why #wordpress is better than blogspot 266 hits
- Is Teaching a Creative Profession? 185 hits
- Should students call teachers by their first names 179 hits
Top Referrers
- Search Engines
- Reflective Teacher
- Google Reader
Coming up in August
Lots of teaching and more learning to make a difference.
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Blog stats June
Is it that the time already? April marked two big blog monuments. This blog has surpassed 50,000 hits last saturday and I’ve now published my 200 post. The 200th post was the text to my ignition talk Aborted Landings, Airsick Bags and… Teaching? My post rate has definitely gone down in the last month or two. I’m hoping that I might be able to do more over the next few months as I find so much to rant about but just do not have the time.
Posts: 8
Comments: 30
Page Loads: 4,349 (169 hits per day)
Biggest day: April 12( 145 hits)
Most commented on post: Tips for surviving your first term of teaching*
Why #wordpress is better than blogspot 230
Are teachers born or made? 219
Should students call teachers by their first names? 201
Why we shouldn’t be celebrating a ‘return’ to the status quo 112
Let them use Crayons? #eduignite #welly 106
Top Referrers
- Search engines
- Google Reader
- Gathering the evidence
Coming up in May
Graduation, a few how to posts and perhaps some renewed blogging mojo.
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Byte Counting April – My blog makes 50,000 hits
Is it that the time already? April marked two big blog monuments. This blog has surpassed 50,000 hits last saturday and I’ve now published my 200 post. The 200th post was the text to my ignition talk Aborted Landings, Airsick Bags and… Teaching? My post rate has definitely gone down in the last month or two. I’m hoping that I might be able to do more over the next few months as I find so much to rant about but just do not have the time.
Posts: 8
Comments: 30
Page Loads: 4,349 (169 hits per day)
Biggest day: April 12( 145 hits)
Most commented on post: Tips for surviving your first term of teaching*
Top Referrers
- Search engines
- Google Reader
- Gathering the evidence
Coming up in May
Graduation, a few how to posts and perhaps some renewed blogging mojo.
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March Byte Counting – Blog stats
So it’s April and I’m waaaaaaaaaaaay behind on my blog stats not to mention actually posting actual content on my blog. I’ve had a few posts but feel that I’m kind of losing my blogging mojo. On the other hand, I’ve set up 28 individual blogs for my students, had my first set of learning conferences and wrote my first set of learning statements. So a quiet month blogging wise. On to the stats.
Posts: 8
Comments: 49
Page Loads: 5, 241 (169 hits per day)
Biggest day: March 22( 318 hits)
Most commented on post: Enough with the super teacher meme economists
Top 5 most popular posts (in order of popularity)
Enough with the superhero teacher meme economists!(475 hits)
Why #wordpress is better than blogspot (404 hits)
Are teachers born or made? (290 hits)
Should students call teachers by their first names? (250 hits)
Money, Motivation and Teachers! Oh my! (202 hits)
Top Referrers
- Search engines
- Google Reader
- Gathering the evidence
Coming up in April
Holidays! Ignition! Squee!
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Advice to new edubloggers – both teacher and student
Blogging platforms (design by author)
It’s 2012 and you’ve decided you’ve decided that this is the year you are going to start writing a blog or even take an old blog out of hibernation. At this stage I’m writing based on my experience as a student teacher developing a social media presence but really I imagine a lot of this advice will be easily transferable to classroom blogs or teachers looking to develop a social media presence.
1. Decide on your purpose
Before you even start blogging think about why it is you want to start a blog. You might have several reasons for blogging both for yourself and for your students but ideally you should be able to articulate in 140 characters what your blog is about. The content on your blog largely needs to stick to the purpose and theme of your blog.
2. Decide on a platform
There’s lots of blogging platforms out there so have a look around and decide what you think might meet your needs. I’ve made no secret that I am an avid wordpress user however for my class blog I ended up back at blogger as my school uses google apps. Seeing as the kids already have google accounts it didn’t make much sense for me to use wordpress as a platform for the classroom blog even though I loathe blogger with the fire of a thousand suns.
3. A good blog design
Above anything else the content on your blog should be easily readable for incoming visitors. Colours and fonts are important but you also need to think about what visuals you use, how you organize your content and how users can share your content. Background images can add to your blogs visual appeal but can also be distracting. Likewise a well-designed header will draw readers into your content while a poorly designed one will have readers wondering where your content is. Widgets can add personality to your blog but too many can be distracting for the reader.
3. Share your content
Finding a readership for your blog is just as important as writing good content. Start by posting blog updates to your facebook profile or tweeting new posts. In fact sign up to Twitterfeed which can publish blog updates to your facebook and twitter accounts the minute you hit publish (you can even configure the updates to include hashtags after your post title). Most blogging services these days have buttons for users to tweet, facebook, email and distribute your writing far and wide. You should also have links to your twitter profile and RSS feed for people to start following your work.
4. Managing content
Writing content is just one part of the blogging equation managing it is just as important. Think about your post titles are they something that someone would type into a search engine? You also need to think about when and how frequently you publish posts. Decide your posting schedule and stick to it. The whole point of blogs is that they need to be regularly updated in order to engage readership. A lot of newbie bloggers think that you need to post content the minute you’ve finished the post and pound out several post in quick succession and then nothing for months. Unless you are posting on something time-sensitive then you can keep content up your sleeve for when you are busy in real life (in fact I’m currently writing this post on boxing day because I’m bored of watching cricket).
5. Keep writing
I’m not going to lie after the inital euphoria of ‘ZOMG I have a blog!’ passes you get into the dull drudgery of actually writing content on a semi regular basis. For the first few months it can be disheartening when you feel like you are writing awesome stuff but nobody seems to be reading or commenting or your work. The green-eyed monster can also rear its head when see other more established blogs getting lots of comments and plenty of retweets while you are quietly toiling away and nobody is noticing. But blogging is a bit like keeping fit, you’ve got to do a little bit of exercise each day over a long time rather than spending 3 hours at the gym sporadically to see results. At this table demonstrates that it took almost six months to build up an engaged audience for this blog.
| Month | Posts | Hits | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| January (from 19) | 8 | 389 | 12 |
| February | 17 | 1,049 | 34 |
| March | 11 | 696 | 27 |
| April | 12 | 881 | 38 |
| May | 13 | 1,154 | 38 |
| June | 15 | 1,769 | 76 |
| July | 21 | 3,534 | 115 |
| August | 20 | 3,633 | 78 |
| September | 18 | 4,434 | 77 |
| October | 15 | 4,433 | 38 |
| November | 15 | 4,491 | 76 |
| December | 4 | 5,446 | 50 |
February Byte Counting – Blog Stats time
Photo and cake by author
ZOMG is that February done and dusted? Even with the extra day the month just seemed to zoom by. That may be because I’ve started teaching and therefore and am absolutely run off my feet. I did have time to bake a colleague a baby shower cake which tasted a whole lot better than it looked.
February was a big month for blogging. I broke through the, can you believe it, 40,000 hits barrier and had the highest number of hits per day in its history. I now average over 1,000 hits a week which is pretty good for a little teaching blog.
Right onwards to the stats;
Posts: 12
Comments: 65
Page Loads: 5,102 (176 hits per day)
Biggest day: 14 February (308 hits)
Most commented on post: Analogue Teacher Education = Digital Teacher?
Top 5 most popular posts (in order of popularity)
- Why #wordpress is better than blogspot - 457 hits
- Analog Teacher Education = Digital Teacher? - 317 hits
- Should students call teachers by their first names? - 249 hits
- What they don’t tell you about your first day of teaching - 198 hits
- Accountability – I don’t think it means what you think it means – 165 hits
Top Referrers
Coming in March
More teaching and spending time on a social media reference group.
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