Who reads this blog?

Porter Bay

No LL

I got an email last week. It said,

"My name is Chris, and I have been reading your blog for a couple of years now. I came across your blog while doing research on WestSail 32s. I had been thinking of purchasing a WestSail and tried to convince my wife that she would love the idea of cruising. Well, I have not really been successful, but am still working on her."

My primary intended audience are friends and family. They want to keep track of Libby and me. The secondary audience, are people like Chris who want to live the cruising life vicariously.

Blogger is a Google owned company. Google can't tell me who the readers are, but it does provide some interesting statistics about page use. I'm not going to reveal all my secrets here, but I thought you might be interested in a few tidbits from the most recent 30 days.

Number of visits: 27% of the visitors come to the blog once and don't come back. Presumably, those are people who are surfing, and who didn't find this blog of interest. On the other hand, almost 1/3 of the visitors check this blog once per day or more. They are the hard-core blog fans. I'm very gratified to have so many loyal readers.

How did they find the blog? 78% of the visitors come here directly, meaning that they have bookmarked the blog and come here deliberately. About 11% find it by search engine, and another 11% by a refering page, such as the westsail.org site.

Where do these readers come from? Mostly the USA, but also 38 other countries.