First Anniversary Special, Part 2: Viewership Statistics from Year 1

First Anniversary Special, Part 2: Viewership Statistics from Year 1

Click here if you would like to return to Part 1 of the first anniversary special edition post, where I reflect on this blog's first year and provide a roadmap for this blog's second year. 

In the past year, I have utilized Tableau to create data visualizations representing raw data related to elections, politics, and public policy. As today is this blog's first anniversary, I decided to convert viewership data available from Blogger into data visualizations. Below, I break up viewership data by top countries, operating systems, internet browsers, and per individual posts, in addition to a timeline of views per month and week. Note that out of the total number of views, a few (probably no more than 10) were mine before I figured out how to activate Blogger's feature that doesn't count my views towards viewership data. Unlike normal posts that utilize data visualizations, I will not be analyzing any results, instead providing just each visualization and accompanying notes. 

Visual 1: Timeline of Views per Month

As of 1:50pm PST on 6/13/2021, this blog has 84 published posts (plus other pages such as "About Me" and "External Links"), which have received a total of 2,240 views. Figuring that one whole year and three days have passed since this blog was founded, this averages to around 185.12 per month, 6.08 views per day, and 26.66 per post. 

Table 1: Top 20 Countries by Viewership

While Blogger only provides all-time views for the top 18 countries by total views (plus "Unknown" and "Other," the latter including all other countries not listed), I know that viewers from Cyprus, Egypt, Malaysia, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, and several other countries have visited this blog. Daily, weekly, and monthly viewership data often doesn't have enough views to list more than 18 countries, thus listing all countries with at least one view. These countries are included under "Other" on Visual 2. 

Visual 2: Viewership by Computer Operating System

Since Tableau was not able to fit text boxes outside the pie chart for all chunks, 64 (2.86%) of this blog's views came from "Other" operating systems, and 4 views (0.18%) from users with Unix systems. 

Visual 3: Viewership by Internet Browser

Since Tableau could not insert text boxes for all of the pie chart's chunks, MSIE (i.e. MS Internet Explorer) users totaled 10 views (0.45%), and CriOS users totaled 23 views (1.03%). 

List of Top 10 Posts by Viewership (with URLs)

Note: The list below does not count non-post pages on this blog, such as "About Me," which has more views than any of the posts listed below. 

• 10: The Viability and Limitations of "Vaccine Lotteries" (26 views)
• 9: Alaska and 2021's Other Gubernatorial Recall Movement (27 views)
• 8: Arnold and Steve 2006: A Quantitative Analysis of The Last Republicans to Win California (28 views)
• 7: A Look at Nine Presidential Swing State County Bellwethers (29 views)
• 6: Senators Remaining in 2021 from the 2009 ACA vote (29 views)
• 5: The 2020 Federal Elections: What Happened? (30 views)
• 4: Exploring Asian-American Poverty Part 1: Historical Trends and Current Situation (32 views)
• 3: Democratic House Freshmen (and one longtime member) with Competitive Re-Election Bids to Watch (35 views)
• 2: Quantitative Modeling of Domestic Consumption Part 2: Using a Dynamic Model (38 views)
• 1: 9 Days to Georgia (Senate Runoffs): The Current Situation and Where to Watch on Election Night (40 views)

      Nathan Parmeter

      Author and Host, The Parmeter Politics and Policy Record