ILMK’s WordPress stats for 2015
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 460,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 20 days for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the complete report.
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That’s what WordPress prepared. 🙂 I want to call attention to a few things myself.
First, I thank each and every one of you who read this blog! I’d do it individually, but it might take a while. 😉
The more people who read it, the more people I help, and that’s really the thing in the world that makes me feel the best.
I also specifically thank the subscribers through the Kindle store!
I Love My Kindle blog (automatically on your Kindle!) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
While feelings are important, I also need to be able to justify to myself the time and energy I spend on the blog…and the subscribers are a very big part of that.
I also want to thank everybody who commented!
I always want to improve myself, and intelligent, empathetic, and respectful disagreements are one of the things which can most contribute to personal growth. I’ve learned a lot…both about the world and myself.
These were my top five commenters, according to the report:
- Lady Galaxy
- Edward Boyhan
- Phink
- Tom Semple
- Harold Delk
Their criterion is just the number of comments, but I consider them extraordinary in several dimensions. 🙂
The stat that blows my mind every year is the cosmopolitan nature of the blog…readers in 217 countries this year!
The United Nations has 193 member states. 🙂
Here are those countries:
| Country | Views |
| United States | 297966 |
| United Kingdom | 60755 |
| Australia | 10815 |
| Canada | 10573 |
| India | 9914 |
| Germany | 4538 |
| Ireland | 3762 |
| Singapore | 3338 |
| Spain | 3017 |
| France | 2556 |
| New Zealand | 2442 |
| Italy | 2305 |
| Brazil | 2242 |
| South Africa | 2223 |
| Poland | 2104 |
| Japan | 1634 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 1603 |
| Philippines | 1544 |
| Mexico | 1522 |
| Netherlands | 1304 |
| Romania | 1197 |
| Israel | 1103 |
| Switzerland | 1084 |
| Turkey | 1038 |
| Hungary | 971 |
| Argentina | 937 |
| Czech Republic | 933 |
| Norway | 927 |
| Russia | 855 |
| Sweden | 828 |
| Vietnam | 827 |
| Thailand | 794 |
| South Korea | 782 |
| United Arab Emirates | 750 |
| Malaysia | 718 |
| Austria | 702 |
| Belgium | 655 |
| Bulgaria | 636 |
| Denmark | 633 |
| Indonesia | 616 |
| European Union | 613 |
| Taiwan | 560 |
| Ukraine | 559 |
| Pakistan | 558 |
| Slovakia | 556 |
| Portugal | 513 |
| Chile | 492 |
| Greece | 469 |
| Colombia | 403 |
| Saudi Arabia | 386 |
| Finland | 383 |
| El Salvador | 354 |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 339 |
| Croatia | 330 |
| Lithuania | 267 |
| Serbia | 265 |
| Egypt | 265 |
| Puerto Rico | 261 |
| Slovenia | 260 |
| Bangladesh | 229 |
| Peru | 223 |
| Jamaica | 213 |
| China | 204 |
| Costa Rica | 196 |
| Sri Lanka | 193 |
| Kenya | 192 |
| Dominican Republic | 188 |
| Nigeria | 186 |
| Venezuela | 173 |
| Nepal | 165 |
| Malta | 163 |
| Ecuador | 161 |
| Qatar | 156 |
| Bahamas | 155 |
| Guatemala | 151 |
| Belarus | 146 |
| Cyprus | 136 |
| Estonia | 135 |
| Barbados | 132 |
| Iceland | 127 |
| Luxembourg | 119 |
| Tanzania | 117 |
| Uruguay | 116 |
| Bahrain | 115 |
| Panama | 114 |
| Georgia | 113 |
| Lebanon | 109 |
| Latvia | 108 |
| Kuwait | 106 |
| Jersey | 105 |
| Morocco | 104 |
| Albania | 98 |
| Guernsey | 95 |
| Jordan | 91 |
| Isle of Man | 88 |
| Cambodia | 87 |
| Kazakhstan | 80 |
| Ghana | 75 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | 75 |
| Armenia | 75 |
| Mongolia | 73 |
| Oman | 73 |
| Uganda | 71 |
| Myanmar (Burma) | 68 |
| Ethiopia | 65 |
| Bolivia | 63 |
| Zimbabwe | 62 |
| Brunei | 62 |
| Moldova | 59 |
| Maldives | 58 |
| Honduras | 57 |
| Algeria | 55 |
| Guyana | 54 |
| Azerbaijan | 54 |
| Belize | 52 |
| Guam | 51 |
| Bermuda | 48 |
| Mauritius | 48 |
| Nicaragua | 43 |
| Gibraltar | 43 |
| Iraq | 42 |
| Antigua & Barbuda | 41 |
| Macau SAR China | 40 |
| Haiti | 39 |
| St. Lucia | 39 |
| Macedonia | 37 |
| Cayman Islands | 35 |
| Paraguay | 33 |
| Aruba | 33 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 32 |
| Montenegro | 31 |
| Zambia | 31 |
| Namibia | 29 |
| Tunisia | 28 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 23 |
| Rwanda | 23 |
| St. Kitts & Nevis | 23 |
| Botswana | 23 |
| Réunion | 21 |
| Suriname | 21 |
| Grenada | 20 |
| Turks & Caicos Islands | 19 |
| Curaçao | 19 |
| Afghanistan | 18 |
| Senegal | 18 |
| Mozambique | 18 |
| Laos | 17 |
| Malawi | 16 |
| St. Vincent & Grenadines | 16 |
| Sudan | 15 |
| British Virgin Islands | 15 |
| Fiji | 13 |
| Palestinian Territories | 12 |
| Dominica | 12 |
| Uzbekistan | 11 |
| Bhutan | 10 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 |
| Angola | 9 |
| Monaco | 9 |
| Samoa | 9 |
| Cuba | 9 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 8 |
| Libya | 8 |
| Guadeloupe | 8 |
| Cameroon | 8 |
| Madagascar | 8 |
| Seychelles | 7 |
| Vanuatu | 7 |
| Cape Verde | 7 |
| Djibouti | 7 |
| Burkina Faso | 7 |
| Sint Maarten | 7 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 6 |
| Somalia | 6 |
| American Samoa | 6 |
| New Caledonia | 6 |
| Benin | 6 |
| Sierra Leone | 6 |
| Falkland Islands | 5 |
| Swaziland | 5 |
| Burundi | 5 |
| Mali | 4 |
| Martinique | 4 |
| Chad | 4 |
| Andorra | 4 |
| South Sudan | 4 |
| Liberia | 4 |
| Guinea | 3 |
| Congo – Kinshasa | 3 |
| St. Martin | 3 |
| Anguilla | 3 |
| Niger | 3 |
| Mauritania | 3 |
| Faroe Islands | 3 |
| Congo – Brazzaville | 2 |
| French Polynesia | 2 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 |
| Iran | 2 |
| Micronesia | 2 |
| Marshall Islands | 2 |
| Tajikistan | 2 |
| Syria | 2 |
| Gambia | 2 |
| Gabon | 1 |
| Togo | 1 |
| St. Helena | 1 |
| French Guiana | 1 |
| Vatican City | 1 |
| Yemen | 1 |
| Greenland | 1 |
| Timor-Leste | 1 |
| Eritrea | 1 |
| Caribbean Netherlands | 1 |
| Cook Islands | 1 |
| Liechtenstein | 1 |
| Mayotte | 1 |
I’m always impressed with the number of views in countries which don’t have the legal sale of Kindles and Kindle content. I wonder how much of it is from people who are traveling there, and how much of it is from people who live there who are just interested in the topic. I assume some people find it by mistake 🙂 but there are hundreds of views in some “Kindle free zones”. Honestly, of course, some people may also have the devices or content outside of their government’s policies.
The five most popular posts have a lot of overlap with last year, which doesn’t surprise me much. You can see last year’s here:
ILMK’s WordPress stats for 2014
Some posts are of more lasting interest than others, because of the nature of the topic (people will, unfortunately, probably always lose or have stolen their devices).
The top five most viewed ILMK posts for 2015 were:
- The reading experience: Paperwhite vs. Kindle Fire HDX (from 2014) (#2 last year)
- Which Kindle do you have? (from 2011) (not in the top 5 last year)
- Got a new Kindle? Here’s the most important thing to know (from 2011) (#1 last year)
- You can now reset your Kindle password yourself (from 2011) (#3 last year)
- What to do if your Kindle is lost or stolen (from 2009) (not in the top 5 last year)
The “Reading Experience” post is impressive: clearly, that’s an important question for people still.
I’ll also say, it wouldn’t bother me at all if Amazon took note of these stats, and looked at revising their own Help Pages on the topics…
Finally, I want to note that the number of views was up by about 30,000…we can call that about an increase of about 14%! That’s not bad for a six-year old blog. 😉 Looking at the posts, I do see I made fewer of them this year…I didn’t average quite a post a day (I had 335). It’s been a busy year for a lot of reasons, but I’ll try to step it up again in 2016 (although some of you may feel you get quite enough the way it is) 😉 . I should hit my 3,000 post for the lifetime of the blog in January.
Once again, thanks to all of you for a wonderful 2015, and I’m looking forward to continuing the ILMK journey with you in 2016!
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I Love My Kindle 
December 30, 2015 at 2:51 pm |
I can’t believe I was #3. Well, I have always been told I’m as windy as a preacher on Sunday. The first day I met my wife back in 1990 I talked and talked and talked. We were working together. Finally I said “Don’t you ever say anything?” She replied “Don’t you ever shut up.” My wife quite often has to endure the conversation with a stranger anytime we go to the store. Yep, I yap too much sometimes.
December 31, 2015 at 2:58 am |
Thanks for writing, Phink!
And I mean that…thanks for writing! 🙂 I don’t think you’ve written too much here…I’ve enjoyed them!
I know I’ve said it on the blog before, but I have kidded people that I was once treated for a sunburned tongue. I often bring it up with classes. For example, when I am encouraging questions: “For me, questions are the fun part. You’ve probably noticed: I like to talk. But not even I would lecture in an empty room for eight hours…after two or three hours, I’d get bored.” 😉
December 31, 2015 at 1:08 am |
In real life, folks tell me I’m too quiet. I hope I’m not too much of a “motor keyboard” online.
It was fascinating to see all those countries represented as readers of ILMK. Some I’ve never heave heard of. The world map surely has changed since I took geography way back in 7th grade!
December 31, 2015 at 3:43 am |
Thanks for writing, Lady!
I don’t know where else you comment, but you haven’t been typing too much here!
Yes, those countries are interesting! I don’t know how WordPress defines them…maybe URL extensions?
Just remember…”It’s Istanbul, not Constantinople…” 😉 Okay, that’s a city, not a country, but I do like the song (available in Prime, or at least it was).
December 31, 2015 at 7:00 am
People just liked it better that way!
And just a reminder December 31 is the last day to get into the drawing for an Echo for listening to Prime music. I’ve made sure to listen to something each day just in case.
December 31, 2015 at 7:11 pm
Thanks for writing, Lady!
There’s also a sweepstakes going on for watching Prime Video, so I’ve been doing that every day, too. 🙂
Watch for a Chance to Win (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping)
It’s a bunch of Amazon gift certificate prizes…top prize is $30,000!
You only have to watch for one second…
January 1, 2016 at 8:46 pm |
Well golly, Bufo, can’t believe I’m number 5 commenter as I’ve tried to be a bit quieter this year. Based upon a slightly wacky sort of interpolation from “Their criterion is just the number of comments, but I consider them extraordinary in several dimensions” I’ve concluded that I’m the Fifth Dimension. Both Doctor Who and Mr. Murakami would be proud; the musical group not so much so.
I’ve enjoyed and learned from you and from the commenters as well for yet another year and be assured I’ll be sticking around in the future. This has been a great year in EBR and Fire for innovation and improvements and with Alexa joining the mix more every day I predict 2016 will be another breakout tech year. Early indicators leading up to CES lead with the Echo having lots of competition since it is an open system and we’ll see a myriad of new devices and services being connected to the world of voice control. Now that we can listen to Kindle and Audible books via Alexa we may expect a further blending of the services and an increase in the meshing from our online libraries without having to resort to Bluetooth for Kindle books. I currently listen to books both ways as well as read on my Paperwhite; the synchronization is mostly seamless. Both Audible and TTS have improved considerably. I know your preference is TTS, but I enjoy them both as they both have their advantages and disadvantages to me. I don’t mind the actors interpretations as much as I dislike the computer generated voice … and it has gotten very much better in the past year. I reckon I’ll always like plays over monologues. To each his or her own.
Thank you, Bufo, for all you do for our ever-growing community and thank you to the contributors to the discussions as well. All of you make all of us better informed and enlightened readers. May your New Year be fifth dimensional.
January 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm |
Thanks for writing, Harold!
I’m happy to hear I can look forward to more from you in the future!
“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man…”