A strange week. Our readership has grown strongly yet this is not yet reflecting in all the benchmarking measures used (it may be partly explained by stronger growth in international readership than domestic).
NZ Political Blog Rank #9 (last week #9)
Alexa 3-Month Average Ranking 369,030 (last week 384,147)
Alexa NZ Ranking 1,039 (1,010)
Technorati Rank 167,741 (134,803) - see below
Technorati Authorities 56 (56) We were 57 first thing this morning and 58 yesterday. We don't quite understand Technorati! Since posting (5 minutes ago) this we are now back up to 57 with a rank of 164,504!
Unique visits 3,912 (3,621)
Page views 5,422 (6,106)
According to Alexa we are currently ranked 210,593 in China. One report we have read suggests that there are now over 78 million blogs in China. Our weekly readership in China is now just over 100 (up from 1 a month ago). This suggests to us that there are not too many Alexa toolbars in use in China. That said, it is interesting to look at the map of China and where people are reading us. What was a small pimple over Beijing has grown into a big spot and the rest of China looks as though an outbreak of chicken pox is occuring.
Thank you for reading The Hive.