WoW! Wouter over het Web

January was a really busy month on this blog. Google Analytics registered some 4,500 visitors that looked at around 6,800 pages. 3,500 unique visitors! The busiest day was Wednesday the 17th when I announced my plans for a new review of the Dutch biblioblogosphere. A message posted on the Nedbib-L, the most important discussion list for Dutch Librarians, resulted in a true spike of direct visitors.

21% of the visitors came from other countries than Netherlands or Belgium. Visitors came from 59 different countries. In the beginning of January I noted an unusual peak of visitors from Taiwan. Over the last couple of days I see all Italian universities dropping by on a single post of this blog, they all come directly to the blog. Strangely enough they did not visit this post, which is on the same subject. Apparently some e-mail traffic going around there, since a few are referred from e-mail hosting services.



Netvibes has finally overtaken Bloglines as the most popular feedreader for subscribers to the Feed. In the beginning of the month there were 156 Bloglines subscribers (using the Feedburner feed) and 123 Netvibes subscribers, the figures are now 168 vs 161. The success of Netvibes over Bloglines also confirmed by the referrals as measured by Google Analytics 147 vs 145. There is actually no real need for either system to click through to the blog since the posts are syndicated as a whole.

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