We’re going to need a taller page 104
Posted on
March 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
February full stats. No comment.
Archive for the ‘navel-gazing’
In the clouds 238
Posted on
February 21, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Someone just forwarded us the results of a survey by STV’s polling arm Scotpulse. It’s a “wordcloud” of the sort we have on this very site (it’s over on the right hand side and down a bit, marked “Tags”), where the more significant something is the bigger its name gets printed. It pretty much speaks for itself.
You’re the ones who put the word out there, readers. It’s working. Thank you.
Seven figures 104
Posted on
February 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been talking about our own stats a little too much for our liking recently – we’ll give it a bit of a rest again after this month, honest. But this one’s kinda special.
Those are Wings Over Scotland’s lifetime stats – or at least, lifetime since we signed up to Google Analytics just under two years ago. And as of yesterday, they show that the site has been visited by more than a MILLION different readers over that period. And we’re damned if we’re not taking a moment to reflect on that one.
It’s been quite a ride so far. Let’s make it mean something.
Busy busy bees 186
Posted on
February 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We like to put a bit of extra effort in in January. The excitement of a fresh new year, coupled with the need to shake people out of the festive-period stupor that otherwise kills momentum stone dead, calls for 110%. Even so, with the slow opening week and then losing most of a weekend to a server outage, we weren’t expecting this.
Not only were January’s pageview stats more than 30% up on December, but they also smashed the all-time record set in November by well over 100,000.
Practice over 98
Posted on
January 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
One million words 49
Posted on
December 11, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Standing room only 125
Posted on
December 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re going to enjoy this one while we can, because there’s a big barren fortnight across the last week of December and the first week of January when no politics happens at all, so we probably won’t see these sorts of numbers again for a while.
Crivvens.
By their works shall you know them 135
Posted on
November 16, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Something rather odd happened over on our Facebook page this week. It’s the most sparsely-populated outpost of the Wings empire, (because it’s mostly just links to articles here), and the average post there is doing well if it’s seen by 2000 people and gets five or six comments.
But yesterday, after running this article, we thought it might be fun to turn the two maps into one of our celebrated series of “leaked Better Together posters”, so we quickly knocked up this image and posted it on the Facebook page accompanied only by the words “Another Union dividend”:
And then things went a bit mad.
That time of the month 135
Posted on
November 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s the 1st of November and we almost forgot to do a stats post. Tch, eh?
We’re calling one of those numbers another landmark.
We are legion 122
Posted on
October 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To answer your question 174
Posted on
September 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, it’s been quite a week, readers. Over the course of the last seven days, Wings Over Scotland – and in particular myself, as its editor – has been subjected to an unprecedented series of smear attacks from several groups of alarmingly angry people, from “Better Together” activists (sometimes in unholy alliance with a small handful of confused, naive young SNP student sorts) to senior Scottish journalists, failed Tory election candidates, psychopathic stalkers and Rangers supporters.
I’ve personally been called – in the space of just that single week – homophobic, transphobic, misogynist, racist, disablist, ageist, fascist, sectarian, a rape apologist, anti-English, anti-Welsh and a hate-preaching bigot. All are entirely untrue, of course.
(Just about the only people I’m apparently NOT prejudiced against are left-handed unicycling vegan budgie-owners from Fermanagh. Which is doubly ironic, because I really loathe those smug, cack-fisted carrot-munchers.)
If you want to know why, look below.
The best wee politics site in Scotland? 45
Posted on
August 18, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been in a bit of a stat-wading frame of mind generally today, readers, so we hope you’ll forgive us for one last toot on the trumpet after a fortnight that’s seen every readership record on the site trashed in spectacular style.
It’s not even our fault – an alert reader on Twitter pointed out our soaring rating on global web traffic tracker Alexa.com over the course of the last few months (since we became wingsoverscotland.com), so we couldn’t resist a bit of a nosy poke around for the rankings of other Scottish politics sites and, well, these were the findings.
