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The sound of one horn tooting

Posted on May 01, 2012 by

We don’t plan to do this every month (and we’ve only done it once before), but we hope you’ll forgive us for celebrating a small Wings Over Scotland milestone. In April our readership figures smashed all previous records, and smashed them hard. Page views broke through the 100,000 barrier and kept on going, and by the end of the month were considerably higher than March and February put together.


We’re extra-pleased because there was no one huge story responsible for distorting the numbers (unlike in February, when the “Why Scotland Doesn’t Need Rangers” piece got over 15,000 by itself, many from people who don’t normally read the blog). April’s stats grew steadily and organically – the most popular single article contributing just 4% of the total compared to February’s 30% – and they show no signs of slowing.

Thanks to everyone who’s read the site, linked to it, plugged the stories on various social-media sites and everything else that contributes to this modest but gratifying success. Hopefully we’ll keep doing what more and more of you seem to like, and the voice of intelligent nationalism will get louder still.

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  1. douglas clark says:
    1 May, 2012 at 10:01 am

    RevStu,
     
    Congratulations on that. Do you know how many unique readers you’ve had over that time period? For you certainly seem to have carved out a niche for yourself.
    I think bringing Scott Minto on board was a master stroke.
     

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  2. Rev. Stuart Campbell says:
    1 May, 2012 at 10:45 am

    “Uniques” were fractionally under 16,000.

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  3. douglas clark says:
    1 May, 2012 at 11:05 am

    Thanks for that. That is actually a more impressive statistic.

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  4. Leighton says:
    1 May, 2012 at 11:33 am

    Well done WoS, still my favourite Nat blog love Rev Stuart’s stuff and Sneeky boy has proved to be a brilliant addition, keep up the good work.

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  5. UkFacepalm says:
    1 May, 2012 at 11:36 am

    Great to hear of the extent of your success 🙂

    Put me down for an XXL Wings over Scotland t-shirt, a calendar and a paperweight !

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  6. Macart says:
    1 May, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    Well done Rev. Kudos

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  7. MajorBloodnok says:
    1 May, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    It is very heartening the level of informed and civilised debate that you do get on pro-independence sites generally.  And this is one of the best.  More power to your wotsit.

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  8. Suth says:
    1 May, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Good on you. It’s well deserved. It’s a good sign to see more and more people flocking to read what is actually important stuff and (not to slight your enjoyable writing) not as easy or entertaining as the rest of their likely internet or TV viewing due to the topic at hand. Every regular visitor is another person leaving better informed and hopefully more interested in the politics at hand than they were before. You’re chipping away at the apathy.

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  9. hector says:
    1 May, 2012 at 10:10 pm

    just discovered wos a couple of weeks  ago.like it

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  10. Peninsula says:
    1 May, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    The more the unionist media goes into overdrive, the more sites like this need to exist

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  11. Adam Davidson says:
    2 May, 2012 at 12:13 am

    Hopefully that is a sign of the increasing levels of interest and support in the SNP campaign! I am looking forward to Thursday, or actually Friday even more now. 

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