ILMK’s WordPress stats for 2014

ILMK’s WordPress stats for 2014

Thank you all again for a wonderful year (which still has a couple of days left)!

I’ll be doing my year in e-books soon, but WordPress did send me the annual report for the I Love My Kindle blog. They do a fun job with that, and I wanted to go ahead and share some of the facts with you. You should be able to see the report here:

https://ilmk.wordpress.com/2014/annual-report/

although I’m going to use the site’s private stats to go deeper.

ILMK was visited about 430,000 times in 2014. I added on average of more than a post a day (392), bringing the total to 2,643. I try to average 1,000 words a day, and I think that might be an underestimate. If that was the case, and using the old standard of 250 per pages, that would be the equivalent of a 1,568 page book in 2014.

The top five viewed posts in 2014 were:

1. Got a new Kindle? Here’s the most important thing to know (from 2011)
2. The reading experience: Paperwhite vs. Kindle Fire HDX
3. You can now reset your Kindle password yourself (from 2011)
4. Parental controls and your Kindle (from 2012)
5. Why I don’t use Amazon’s Silk browser (from 2013)

While the posts are certainly the bulk of the blog, I want to acknowledge everyone who has taken the time and made the effort to comment. I always appreciate the kind words, thoughtful insights, field reports, and especially, respectful disagreements! 🙂 The commenters who participated the most were:

1. Lady Galaxy
2. Edward Boyhan
3. Tom Semple
4. Zebras
5. Harold Delk

Thanks, commenters! The blog wouldn’t be the same without  you.

This next one is one of my favorite stats: how many visitors I had from different countries…although I do have to say, it doesn’t look like I can copy and paste this year, so over 200 (!) countries is going to be a lot of typing! Here we go:

• USA 306,927
• UK 49,598
• Australia 8,880
• Canada 8,418
• India 4,662
• Germany 4,382
• Ireland 3,702
• Singapore 2,324
• Spain 2,002
• France 1,968
• New Zealand 1,834
• Italy 1,809
• Poland 1,673
• Brazil 1,652
• South Africa 1,645
• Japan 1,356
• Philippines 1,217
• Romania 1,085
• Mexico 1,062
• Hong Kong 965
• Netherlands 925
• Hungary 909
• Czech Republic 908
• Switzerland 851
• Israel 815
• Slovakia 808
• Russian Federation 799
• Turkey 688
• Norway 651
• El Salvador 630
• Austria 612
• Malaysia 583
• Viet Nam 572
• Belgium 546
• Republic of Korea 545
• Thailand 532
• Sweden 518
• Argentina 515
• Bulgaria 490
• Taiwan 481
• Greece 450
• Denmark 440
• Portugal 439
• United Arab Emirates 439
• Ukraine 405
• Finland 349
• Trinidad and Tobago 347
• Colombia 328
• Pakistan 314
• Indonesia 308
• Chile 292
• Puerto Rico 267
• Jamaica 249
• Croatia 236
• Slovenia 217
• Saudi Arabia 215
• Costa Rica 212
• Serbia 209
• Egypt 183
• Dominican Republic 175
• Peru 170
• Lithuania 169
• Barbados 151
• Bangladesh 142
• Nigeria 138
• Kenya 135
• Ecuador 129
• Venezuela 119
• Bahamas 119
• Estonia 117
• Cyprus 117
• Iceland 116
• Georgia 113
• Malta 108
• Morocco 105
• Sri Lanka 103
• Qatar 103
• Luxembourg 100
• Moldova 97
• Kuwait 96
• Belarus 90
• Latvia 86
• Jersey 84
• Ghana 82
• Uruguay 82
• Guatemala 81
• Bosnia and Herzegovina 80
• United Republic of Tanzania 72
• Kazakhstan 72
• Nepal 72
• Panama 66
• Isle of Man 66
• Lebanon 64
• Cambodia 63
• Uganda 57
• Zimbabwe 56
• Honduras 55
• China 54
• Guernsey 53
• Guam 51
• Nicaragua 50
• Oman 49
• Armenia 49
• Bahrain 47
• Ethiopia 46
• Algeria 46
• Bermuda 44
• Albania 44
• Belize 42
• Azerbaijan 42
• Bolivia 41
• Jordan 41
• Antigua and Barbuda 41
• Virgin Islands 39
• British Virgin Islands 39
• Guyana 38
• Tunisia 36
• Mongolia 35
• Saint Lucia 34
• Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic 34
• Zambia 32
• Namibia 30
• Iraq 29
• Myanmar 39
• Mauritius 28
• Gibraltar 37
• Macao 26
• Paraguay 25
• Cayman Islands 24
• Lao People’s Democratic Republic 23
• Rwanda 23
• Palestine, State of 22
• Uzbekistan 21
• Brunei Darussalam 20
• Afghanistan 20
• Dominica 18
• Grenada 17
• Haiti 16
• Kyrgyzstan 16
• Montenegro 16
• Aruba  15
• Botswana 15
• Malawi 14
• Fiji 14
• Saint  Kitts and Nevis 13
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 13
• Suriname 13
• Turks and Calicos Islands 12
• Cuba 12
• Djibouti 11
• Maldives 11
• Yemen 11
• Libya 10
• Madagascar 10
• Cameroon 9
• Cape Verde 8
• Mozambique 8
• Papua New Guinea 8
• Sierra Leone 8
• Togo 7
• Cook Islands 7
• Guadeloupe 7
• Sudan 7
• Seychelles 6
• Marshall Islands 6
• Tajikistan 6
• Northern Mariana Islands 6
• Senegal 6
• Cote d’Ivoire 6
• New Caldedonia 6
• Vanuatu 5
• Anguilla 5
• Saint Martin 5
• Tonga 5
• Reunion 4
• Democratic Republic of the Congo 4
• French Polynesia 4
• Monaco 4
• Faroe Islands 4
• Niger 4
• Syrian Arab Republic 4
• Andorra 4
• Timor-Leste 3
• Swaziland 3
• Micronesia, Federated States of 3
• Angola 3
• Bhutan 3
• Palau 3
• Martinique 3
• Burkina Faso 3
• Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 3
• Gambia 2
• Somalia 2
• American Samoa 2
• Mali 2
• Congo 2
•  Guinea 1
• Solomon Islands 1
• Mauritania 1
• Benin 1
• Liberia 1
• Saint Helena 1
• Lesotho 1
• Chad 1
• Aland Islands 1
• Gabon 1

Thanks, world! 🙂 I think it’s especially cool that I get views from countries to which Kindles and Kindle content can’t even be shipped. That might be people traveling, I guess, or just interested parties, maybe hoping for the day everything gets worked out and they can get Kindle books where they live.

One last stat of a different kind: my customers’ purchases appear to have resulted in over a thousand dollars in donations through AmazonSmile* in 2014! Doesn’t it feel great to have helped out ike that? 🙂

Join over a thousand readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard!

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other blogs/organizations, buy  Amazon Gift Cards from a link on the site, then use those to buy your items. There will be no cost to you, and a benefit to them.

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