August is supposedly the quiet month of the year. The month when in the UK at least there is no news. And when people shut up shop and go away — ignoring reality for as long as possible.
It’s been, with July, my traditional black spot for traffic in the year. The pattern worked in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
But not in 2010. August 2010 has seen this blogs highest ever traffic in a month — over 61,000 page views, and more than 27,000 additional RSS reads — excluding any risk of double counting. The result — more than 88,000 reads in the month — the highest ever.
Why is that? Coming as it does after three months which also saw exceptionally high recurring blog traffic only just, in each case, behind August for traffic volume, and each in turn well ahead of the traffic seen in the period up to the UK election I think it’s fair to ask what is happening out there to drive such significant traffic increase?
Could it be that Tony Blair is really quite wrong when he says:
'The biggest danger was a view that people would want the state to come back into fashion ?’
Could it actually be people are looking for debate about that alternative?
I can only suggest for sure that the election has changed something. Certainly UK traffic, which was down to 50% of reads is now up at 65% of traffic — suggesting this is largely a domestic phenomena. But it is significant — whatever the cause.
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This is great news Richard. Maybe it’s the enforced disappearance of the likes of Tim Worstall and Georges the “anti-statist” that’s driving the extra traffic.
“Could it actually be people are looking for debate about that alternative?”
Debate? Not on this website. Views at odds with those of the author are invariably deleted.
Private Eye 1270 – out this week has seven pages on the CDC racket and tax avoidance. Other tax items dotted about as well. Huge and good to see.
In that case Alex it’s strange that you turn up so often isn’t it? 🙂
@Howard
Quite so!
I’m remarkably tolerant of all but abuse
Which is why, maybe, there’ve been about 30 comments in the last day
And only 3 deleted – and those all from people who must be so used to the treatment that you wonder why they still bother
The result of such tolerance is that we still have to suffer this particular Alex – which is, undoubtedly, not his real name