please empty your brain below
I am one of your redirects from Twitter - please don’t stop tweeting the link, I would really miss it! (I’m really surprised how few of your followers click through ...)

Liz | 04.08.19 - 7:17 a.m. | #

...people generally have better things to do [on a weekend than read this blog]

WTF..? What is better than reading the DG blog first thing over breakfast?

Jon Jones | 04.08.19 - 7:35 a.m. | #

I’m less likely to post a comment if I missed reading the article shortly after it’s been published as others have probably already said what I was going to say. And I don’t think you’re the sort of person who wants an endless stream of “@Someone +1” in the comments.

Jon Jones | 04.08.19 - 7:38 a.m. | #

Sooo ... the elephant in the room ... do your stats include us RSS subscribers? This is probably the most efficient way of receiving your blog posts (and in a mobile-friendly, readable format too) but I - quite possibly incorrectly - get the impression that 'I can't count you, so you don't count'.

TurboTimbo | 04.08.19 - 7:43 a.m. | #

I never turn my computer off, and I've often been using it for a couple of hours prior to 07:00 because its quiet, so pop in as I'm already here, then a couple of times to look at comments.

Still Anon | 04.08.19 - 7:48 a.m. | #

¡Gracias a VOS! Por tanta generosidad, todos los días, durante todos estos años...

Gabriel | 04.08.19 - 7:52 a.m. | #

Good morning DG, may I ask if your visitors are counted once only or do we get included in the numbers when we re-visit the site later,to read the comments?

Jo W | 04.08.19 - 8:02 a.m. | #

If you revisit later in the day, the stats package counts you again.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.08.19 - 8:16 a.m. | #

I wonder how your Sunday profile compares with weekdays in terms of when people read your blog. I’m generally a 7am reader during the week but a lot later during the weekends.

How many people read older posts compared to that day’s offering each day?

I find it fascinating how the blog’s content has varied over time and occasionally delve into the archives.

Thanks for all amazing content over the years.

HM | 04.08.19 - 8:20 a.m. | #

The "overnight" visits are probably people from other time zones.

Patrickov | 04.08.19 - 9:35 a.m. | #

How many visit bang on 7am? What’s happens in the first few minutes?

Jimmy | 04.08.19 - 9:51 a.m. | #

I'm not a Twitter member, although I may read a few people's Twitter posts.
I assume that if a regular DG reader gets a Twitter notification, they don't always click as soon as they see it.

If they are a regular DG reader, they may have DG bookmarked on their browser and access it from there when they are ready to read the post.

This is what I do with A London Inheritance. I get a new post email notification which contains the link, but access it later via the browser bookmark.

DG is, of course, bookmarked for my daily read over morning coffee :-)

Rogmi | 04.08.19 - 10:13 a.m. | #

I never got around to bookmarking DG, as all I have to do is type the letter D into the address bar, and it's there. I too come back to the comments - often on the next day's read - not least because they can me a rich mine of information too. Somehow, life has gone by with my being oblivious to A London Inheritance, so I have duly bookmarked it, thanks to the contributor above.

NickW | 04.08.19 - 10:41 a.m. | #

Like a few others, I was surprised at the "dozen out of loads" figures for twitter. I always access the blog direct from the Twitter message and find it hard to believe that I am that unusual in this regard.

However, I "consume" twitter via aggregator-style apps so click through to the blog via these. I wonder if these are not being presented in the data as an access via Twitter but rather some other means.

Neil | 04.08.19 - 11:24 a.m. | #

I am one of the blog’s twitter followers, but - annoyingly - I don’t always seem to get the notifications.

However, because of what seems to be a caching issue I have. manually going through twitter is often the most effective way of getting the latest post.

(Also, I am in a different time zone, so apologies if I don’t read all your posts at what is - for me - 3am!)

Ronnie MB | 04.08.19 - 1:02 p.m. | #

Another thanks to Rogmi for the mention of A London Inheritance - excellent!

Wild Edric | 04.08.19 - 3:52 p.m. | #

I used to be a 10am-11am person via my bookmark, but recently life has overtaken me and my visiting has been a bit all over the place, like today when I've finally found the time to sit down and catch up!

Cornish Cockney | 04.08.19 - 8:02 p.m. | #

I prefer to read this blog in the evenings around 7 pm as a relaxing after-work read (on my computer) with the comments.

Ipr | 04.08.19 - 9:03 p.m. | #

Count me in too.. I use Feedly and read around 8am in Victoria, Australia.

Sally Hirst | 06.08.19 - 12:01 a.m. | #

Tuesday update: If I don't post until 8am, the same number of visitors turn up between 7am and 8am, but 40% of them come back more than once.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.08.19 - 8:29 a.m. | #

Can you track how many visitors click through from RSS feed readers? That's how I follow all of the blogs I read, and click through from there (to get the proper visual experience and layout). I get the feeling they are unfashionable these days so will be smaller than before, but I still find them hugely useful for following lots of blogs, especially those that have a more irregular publishing schedule than you!

lockedintheattic | 06.08.19 - 11:27 a.m. | #











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