New England's history reader interests November 2011

I have been neglecting this blog. It's not that I've lost interest. It's just that that there have been other pressures that have interfered with all my historical research and writing.

The graphic shows visits (yellow) plus page views (yellow plus red) to this blog over the last twelve months. You can see how traffic increased, but the flattened as my posting dropped off.

In terms of reader interests, the most popular posts in November 2011 were:

• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups 321 page views
• Geography of New England - Introduction 244 page views
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map 132 page views
• How fast do horses travel? 63 page views
• Themes vs topics in history 51 page views
• New England Australia - Clarence River catchment map 40 page views
• Anaiwan or Nganyaywana entry page 20 page views
• Geography of New England - Impact of Great Dividing Range 26 page views
• Social Change in New England 1950-2000 11 - the Aborigines 25 page views
• New England's Aboriginal Languages 21 page views

New England's History reader interests August 11

The graphic shows visits (yellow) and page views (yellow plus red) on this blog to end July 11.

The most popular posts on this blog in August were:

• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups 208 page views
• Social Change in New England 1950-2000 11 - the Aborigines 61 page views
• Geography of New England - Introduction 59 page views
• Environment and the distribution of Aboriginal languages in NSW 55 page views
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map 48 page views
• Themes vs topics in history 38 page views
• Anaiwan or Nganyaywana entry page 33 page views
• New England Australia - Clarence River catchment map 32 page views
• How fast do horses travel? 30 page views
• UNE's Heritage Futures Research Centre Winter Newsletter 28 page views

Aboriginal posts continue to be very popular. In this context, the second most popular post on my personal blog was another Aboriginal history post, Report of the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board, year ended 30 June 1940 with 140 page views.

Reader interests July 11

Stats time again.

The graph shows visits (yellow) and page views (yellow plus red) to this blog over the period to end July.

The most popular posts during July were:

• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups 157 page views
• Themes vs topics in history 67 page views
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map 61 page views
• Environment and the distribution of Aboriginal languages in NSW 34 page views
• How fast do horses travel? 28 page views
• Anaiwan or Nganyaywana entry page 26 page views
• Round the history blogs 12 - genes, architecture & a steam ferry 26 page views
• Re-launching the History of Australian and New Zealand Thought 24 page views
• Geography of New England - Introduction 23 page views
• Captain Thunderbolt & the true story of Mary Ann Bugg 20 pages

NEH Blog Performance April 2011

The graph on the right shows traffic (yellow) and page views (yellow plus red) on this blog to the end of April.
The most popular posts in April were:

• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups 157 page views
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map 84 page views
• Geography of New England - Introduction 61 page views
• Social Change in New England 1950-2000 11: the Aborigines 47 page views
• How fast do horses travel? 43 pages
• Environment and the distribution of Aboriginal languages in NSW 35 page views
• Clarence Valley timeline 31 pages
• New England's Aboriginal Languages 25 pages
• The importance of dates in history 25 page views
• New England Australia - Hunter River catchment map 23 page views

NEA blog performance March 2011

The attached graphic shows visits (yellow) and page views (yellow plus red) on this blog for the year to end March 2011.

The top ten posts over March were:

• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups 168 page views
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map 114 page views
• Social Change in New England 1950-2000 11: the Aborigines 64 page views
• Environment and the distribution of Aboriginal languages in NSW 53 page views
• Geography of New England - Introduction 40 page views
• How fast do horses travel? 35 page views
• Book review - Elizabeth Wiedemann's World of its own: Inverell's early years 1827-1920 32 page views
• Social Change in New England 1950-2000 4: Generational Change and the 1970s 29 page views
• New England's Aboriginal Languages 27 page views
• Drummond's life 10 - bibliography 21 page views

Excluding search engines, the main referring sites have been:

• newenglandaustralia.blogspot.com 194 visits

NEA blog performance February 2011

The attached graphic shows visits (yellow) and page views (yellow plus red) on this blog for the year to end February.

The top ten posts over January were:

• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups 235 page views
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map 125 page views
• Geography of New England - Introduction 51 page views
• Social Change in New England 1950-2000 11: the Aborigines 118 page views
• Anaiwan or Nganyaywana entry page 41 page views
• Environment and the distribution of Aboriginal languages in NSW 40 page views
• How fast do horses travel? 39 page views
• Introduction to New England's Aboriginal languages 27 page views
• New England Australia - Clarence River catchment map 27 page views
• New England's Aboriginal Languages 25 page views

Excluding search engines, the main referring sites have been:

• newenglandaustralia.blogspot.com 19 visits
• http://archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au/ 8 visits

NEA blog performance January 2011

The attached graphic shows visits (yellow) and page views (yellow plus red) on this blog for the year to end January. While still not a high traffic blog, I have held the higher numbers that began in the middle of 2010.
 
The top ten posts over January were:

• New England Australia - Clarence River catchment map 308 page views
• Environment and the distribution of Aboriginal languages in NSW 193 page views
• Geography of New England - Introduction 133 page views
• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups  118 page views
• Drummond's life 10 - bibliography 70 page views
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map 65 page views
• Resumed posting on New England's history 39 page views
• How fast do horses travel? 32 page views
• Entry page - New England's River Catchments 27 page views
• Sunderland Flying Boats, Clarence River 24 page views

Excluding search engines, the main referring sites have been:

• http://www.facebook.com/ 14 visits
• newenglandaustralia.blogspot.com 13 visits
• http://archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au/what-can-we-do-you-for/ 10 visits
• belshaw.blogspot.com 6 visits

Blog performance September 2010

I'm sorry for the long delay in posting. It's hard to believe that I just got back from Greece Sunday. Greece already seems so remote!

The attached graphic shows visits (yellow) and page views (yellow plus red) for the year to end September.

The top ten posts over September were:

• Geography of New England - Introduction 365 page views
• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups 140 page views
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map 69 page views
• Sunderland Flying Boats, Clarence River 45 page views
• Introduction to New England's Aboriginal languages... 36 page views
• Geography of New England - Impact of Great Dividing Range 35 page views
• New England's Aboriginal Languages 33 page views
• Drummond's life 10 - bibliography 30 page views
• Resumed posting on New England's history 30 page views
• New England Australia - Clarence River catchment map 27 page views.

Blog Performance August 2010

This is not a high traffic blog. Not only does it deal with a specialist subject, but my posting is also somewhat irregular! Still, I was fascinated by the apparent spike in traffic in August.

The graphic shows visits (yellow) plus page views (yellow plus red) to this blog over the year ending August 2010. That is a very big increase. As I recorded in Blog visits take off, something of the same thing happened on the New England Australia blog. I think that its connected with the present increase in issues New England.

Looking now at reader interests, the top ten posts on this blog over the last month were:

• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups  144 page views
• Drummond's life 10 - bibliography 110 page views
• Geography of New England - Introduction  77 page views
• Drummond's life 9 - the growing shadows: public life 1936-1942 60 page views
• New England Australia - Hunter River catchment map 56 page views
• Anaiwan or Nganyaywana entry page 50 page views
• NSW Aboriginal Languages Map 46 page views
• New England Australia - Clarence River catchment map 35 page views
• Drummond's life 5 - The Minister: 1927-1929 27 page views
• Impact of State Boundaries on Aboriginal Language Groups 25 page views

I know that I need to update some of the earlier but still popular posts. I have been hesitating simply because its such a large job!

Blog Performance July 2010

The graphic shows visitors (yellow) plus page views (yellow plus red) to this blog in the twelve months ending July.

What have been the most popular posts over July? Well, excluding the front page, the most popular posts were:

•   Anaiwan or Nganyaywana entry page (69 page views)
• Drummond's life 9 - the growing shadows: public life 1936-1942 (63 page views)
• Drummond's life 10 - bibliography (58 page views)
• Drummond's life 5 - The Minister: 1927-1929 (58 page views)
• Hunter Valley Aboriginal Groups (49 page views)
• Drummond's life 6 - troubled times: public life 1929-1932 (45 page views)
• New England's Aboriginal Languages (43 page views)
• Drummond's life 8 - Return to Education: the Minister 1932-1936 (40 page views)
• Drummond's life 7 - the Nicholas Commission 1932-1935 (37 page views)
• Drummond's life 2 - Entry into politics 1907 - 1920 (33 page views)

So the Drummond posts got a fair run, as did some of the Aboriginal history posts. Here I must do updates: I know a fair bit more now.