Today this blog will pass the 700,000 viewed mark at some point.
That's quite a few. The authors here at Lex Anteinternet appreciate the viewer readership and participation.
It's a bit deceptive, however.
In reality, many of those views, indeed the majority of them, reflect the big ramp up from the Punitive Expedition which caused a lot of additional posts here. Those posts started coming in 2016, marking the centennial of that event. This is easy to see from the table on the site, which is set out again here:
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We went, as can be seen, from 743 posts in 2015, which was a small drop from 2014, to a big jump in 2016, and we've posted at about the same rate through the rest of the Punitive Expedition and World War One.
Punitive Expedition posts started an immediate jump in readership. The highest monthly readership prior to that had been 4,177 which reflected an odd spike in August 2014. Before that it had grown to normally be between 2,000 views and almost 4,000 views monthly. With the Punitive Expedition it immediately jumped up over 5,000 and normally stayed up.
At some point we started posting links to some threads here to Reddit, which you are supposed to be careful about and which we were not as careful as we should have been, due to ignorance on that. Those were linked into the 100 Years Ago Today Subreddit and that really started readership climbing. It climbed month by month to the end of the Punitive Expedition in February, 1917, when we stopped doing that. The highest readership of any month was March 2017, which was 55,954.
Since then it's dropped way off, in no small part because we stopped doing the posts to Reddit. It hasn't declined to prior levels, however. April 2017 still had 31,000 views. June 2017 was just under 10,000, but January of this year was 38,533. Normally, however, we get around 5,000 to 6,000 views per month, although it seemed to be slowly declining. Last month, however, we received 20,204.
Not bad for a blog like this, and one which has next to not registered viewers actually (I don't know how many people get emails).
This blog is only one of several blogs we run, however. Given that this one is over the 700,000 mark, how about the rest of them?
Probably our most important blog, if any of them are important is our Today In Wyoming's History blog, which was largely completed a few years ago and is only updated now (it's been turned into a published book).
It now has 148,571 views. It averages about 1400 to 1500 views per month, which isn't bad for a blog that's only supplemented, for the most part, at this stage.
Our oldest blog is our photo blog:
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In contrast, Some Gave All, our blog dedicated to war memorials (and some in addition to that) has been quite active very recently:
It's about at its historic norm in terms of number of posts, mostly because I haven't had time to put more up, but it will be steadily active here for awhile and with posts from France that should be interesting
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It now has 60,265 views. It's monthly viewership is steady, but not large. It'll be interesting to see if the photographs from France change that, but its mostly interesting to see how its readership now rivals that of our photo blog.
Churches of the West passed our photo blog at some point and will likely go over 100,000 views next year. It has just over 93,000 now.
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The decrease came about as at first I had all of the churches I routinely and easily ran across in Wyoming and Northern Colorado to post, but as I got them in, there were fewer to post. That's why the first year had 86 posts. Following that, I have posted a lot from other regions, and I'm still working on Wyoming, but most of my travel is business travel and that doesn't always lend the opportunity to actually photograph what you might want to. Indeed, I should have a lot more from Texas than I do, but I just didn't have the chance.
This past year I don't think I went to Texas, even though I had at least one trip scheduled, and therefore there was also a drop. Both the picking up all the local ones and the discussion above explains why there's been a big drop off on our Courthouse blog.
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As can be seen, we only posted to Courthouses of the West four times in 2018, and four times in 2017. Very little. So its quite inactive. It's presently at 34,059 total views, which isn't bad all things considered. Perhaps ironically, I know that there's still courthouses that I run across all the time in Colorado and Utah that I haven't photographed, as if you are going by them in a moving car or hurrying on your way to court, you probably don't stop to photograph anything.
Another one where I know I have passed up on photos is Painted Bricks.
Painted Bricks, a blog dedicated to art on buildings of all types, has more views than that at 37,043.
That was one of our first efforts, and was all local. After we did the local buildings, we kept going as the subject was interesting and it dovetails nicely with this blog. There should be a lot more posts on it, but it's again one that we sort of do as the opportunity presents itself. We're far from covering everything in the state at this point. Posts tend to be fairly steady on it, year by year:
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We're surprised that Railhead, our blog dedicated to railroad topics, which is also a "as the opportunity presents itself" blog, is up over 40,000.We were also surprised, in making this post here, that we had more posts this year than most.
This year we added another transportation blog, The Areodrome. This was acdtually a revived effort as we had another blog of that name some time ago.
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We like aircraft and have a lot of aircraft photographs, which is why we did that. All those photos would have previously have gone on our photo blog. Viewership is up over 12,000 since March, which is when it was started, which isn't too bad given that its a new effort.
Also new efforts are two additional Church blogs, one for the East and one for the South, reflecting that our one dedicated to the West had photos outside of that category. They're readership so far has been very, very small, and frankly those blogs aren't really complete and still in a draft form so far, so that's not too surprising. Indeed, their few posts and draft quality are probably detracting from viewership to Churches of the West as people would be entitled to think that its equally poorly developed, which it isn't. We've been adding to the Churches of the East blog quite a bit recently, so perhaps that will change.
Again, thank you for reading!
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