Stat Porn 2009 : Who Read Guido

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2009 was the break-through year for this blog, traffic averaged out at some 2 million page views a month from 1,807,954 visitors according to Guido’s server analytics. Think you can guess the most popular story of the year?

Wrong. It was the Letter to Miliband, a post from 2007.

After the search engines, the biggest source of traffic referral remains Iain Dale, he sent an average of 50,000 visitors a month Guido’s way, more than twice as much as the next biggest referrer; The Spectator, with PoliticsHome, the BBC and PoliticalBetting.com making up the rest of the top 5. Guido’s own Twitter feed and the weekly Guidogram email were in the top 10 referrers along with the Telegraph, Guardian and Times.

The largest identifiable portion of readers come from Parliament’s servers – not surprising when over a quarter of MPs surveyed admit to being readers – the rest must be lying.

The Top 100 readership sources:

1. houses of parliament	51. icap plc
2. oxford university	52. uk-reuters
3. university of cambridge	53. policy exchange
4. british broadcasting corporation	54. cardiff university
5. conservative central office	55. royal bank of scotland
6. associated newspapers ltd	56. university of liverpool
7. imperial college london	57. bloomberg financial market
8. deutsche bank	58. parliamentary communications
9. news international	59. university of bath
10. telegraph group limited	60. queen mary and westfield college
11. kpmg peat marwick	61. goldman sachs company
12. pricewaterhousecoopers gts uk	62. euromoney institutional investor plc
13. hsbc bank plc uk	63. dresdner kleinwort wasserstein
14. ubs	64. university of lancaster
15. the university of bristol	65. new labour-1
16. trinity mirror group	66. standard life assurance company
17. amoco corporation	67. johnston press
18. university of manchester	68. keele university
19. university of york	69. university of kent at canterbury
20. credit suisse group / cana	70. open university
21. university of leeds	71. unilever plc
22. jpmorgan chase & co.	72. fortis bank
23. british sky broadcasting ltd.	73. king s college london
24. university college london	74. pa newscentre
25. clifford chance	75. commerzbank ag
26. mccann-erickson inc.	76. greenwich university
27. london school of economics	77. the university of birmingham
28. dow jones international	78. university of vienna
29. scottish parliament	79. european patent office
30. herbert smith	80. university of newcastle upon tyne
31. university of southampton	81. morgan cole
32. nomura international plc. london	82. salomon inc.
33. university of sheffield	83. charles stanley & co ltd.
34. good relations	84. jupiter asset management
35. nat west bank group	85. northern & shell
36. barclays capital	86. university of exeter
37. google inc.	87. cranfield university
38. financial times interactive data	88. deloitte touche tohmatsu
39. research in motion uk limited	89. morgan stanley group inc.
40. european parliament	90. london borough of hackney
41. edinburgh university	91. first city insurance brokers ltd
42. greater london authority	92. university of east anglia
43. the university of st. andrews	93. environment agency
44. hoare govett services	94. publicis group
45. the university of nottingham	95. microsoft corp
46. glaxosmithkline	96. manchester metropolitan university
47. university of warwick	97. university of sussex
48. university of glasgow	98. ford motor company
49. independent television news ltd	99. the university of reading uk
50. barclays plc	100. burson marsteller

N.B. The vast majority of readers do not have their own servers.

If your office blocks access to this blog (much of Whitehall does) email Guido for ideas on how to circumvent Big Brother. Something that is noticeable is the huge increase in access to the blog from mobiles. Guido is considering developing custom apps for iPhones and Blackberries. What functionality would users want to see?