Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Milestone 30,360

Once again, I was caught slightly off guard by the latest 10,000 page hit milestone.  My recent post summarizing Football Manager’s view of Premier League salaries was surprisingly popular and more people than normal are checking out links I post in other threads on Saints Web.

I think I understand the pattern now.  My blog is more interesting during transfer windows than it is during the rest of the season.  And people like it when I summarize information from Football Manager even though many of them complain that it is just a game.

Nevertheless, I want to thank everyone who has read my blog more than once.  If it weren’t for all of you I would definitely have fewer page hits.

I had started work on an End of Season Potpourri post addressing a lot of little minor things.  After partially writing it, I lost interest when the FIFA indictment became big news.  However, a few parts of it still interest me and I will include them.

My Program Collection

I decided to support Southampton FC and add to my ability to read about Southampton FC by subscribing, at a relatively high cost, to the year’s collection of home programs.  (Are they called programs in England or is there some other word for them?)  The club happily (I assume) shipped each program to me following the game and I enjoyed reading them all.  Unfortunately, the program for the Stoke game never arrived.  I contacted the club on the official website twice and never heard back.  I am a little annoyed that I do not have a complete collection.  Can anyone suggest how I can get my Stoke program?  I am willing to pay for it.

It Is Not You It Is Us

Since I am not from Newcastle, I never really understood the intense hatred the Newcastle fans have for Alan Pardew.  However, I think the following records are worth noting:

                              W            D             L              Pt.          GF          GA          GD         

Club One             6              11           21           29           38           65           -27

Club Two             17           7              14           58           49           49           0

Club One is Newcastle and Crystal Palace without Alan Pardew as their manager.  Club Two is Crystal Palace and Newcastle the rest of the time.  The without-Pardew club would have been relegated in last place.  The with-Pardew club was nearly as good as Southampton.

Sure, the other two managers may not have been very good, but no one seriously believes that either Newcastle or Crystal Palace as really as good as Southampton or slightly better than Swansea, yet those are the results Pardew achieved.

To me, this suggests that the problems in Newcastle were not caused by Alan Pardew, but by the ownership of the club.  Of course, this is much less of an insight now then it was earlier in the season when the Newcastle fans were trying to get Alan Pardew fired apparently not realizing that he would be replaced, effectively, with no one.  However, it does cast doubt on how real any turn around can be at Newcastle.  If I were a Newcastle fan, I would not be holding my breath.

If I had had a vote for manager of the year I would have voted for Pardew over Koeman, Monk, and Mourinho, in that order.  (In fact, I think that both Koeman and Mourinho slightly underachieved what their respective squads were capable of.)

Blog Stats

Since my last Milestone post my four most popular posts (based upon direct page hits which understates interest in posts while they are still on the first page of my blog) were European Qualification Rules for SouthamptonFans  (which was by far the leader with around 780 page views), Southampton Weekly Salaries (Update final FM 2015database , Good Riddance Harry Redknapp and Southampton Weekly Salaries.   Because of the limited information I receive I do not have exact numbers and I cannot determine the fifth most popular article.

Here are my most popular posts for the last month:

EntryPageviews
146
112
68
56
Jun 2, 2015, 2 comments
45
43
39
37
35
33

Here are my all time most popular posts.  The list is no long as totally dominated by posts from my first couple of weeks of blogging.  In fact, the European Qualification Rules post is now second.
 
EntryPageviews
1326
815
494
359
355
Aug 5, 2014, 1 comment
274
Jan 5, 2015, 2 comments
273
196
Aug 26, 2014, 2 comments
192
176
 
Here are updates to the statistics I published in my last milestone post.  I recognize that this information is probably not of interest to very many people.  However, posting it here gives me access to it because I cannot go back and get this information historically from blogspot.  Possibly, I should have been saving this information every month as I went along.  Maybe I will start doing that at the end of this month.
 
Here is where my page views have come from: in the last month:
 
 
Pageviews by Countries
Graph of most popular countries among blog viewers
EntryPageviews
United Kingdom

1421
United States

306
Australia

57
France

33
Malaysia

33
Ukraine

32
Greece

31
India

29
Kenya

25
Singapore

23
And all time:

 Pageviews by Countries
Graph of most popular countries among blog viewers
EntryPageviews
United Kingdom

20467
United States

3589
Australia

681
France

653
Spain

239
Netherlands

219
Sweden

214
Russia

201
Malaysia

183
Canada

175

Here is the browser and operating system information for last month:
 
 
Pageviews by Browsers
EntryPageviews
Safari

878 (37%)
Chrome

844 (35%)
Firefox

276 (11%)
Internet Explorer

202 (8%)
Mobile Safari

66 (2%)
Mobile

47 (2%)
SamsungBrowser

17 (<1%)
Opera

12 (<1%)
Dragon

4 (<1%)
MobileSafari

4 (<1%)
Image displaying most popular browsers

Pageviews by Operating Systems

EntryPageviews
Windows

886 (37%)
Macintosh

482 (20%)
Android

407 (17%)
iPhone

309 (13%)
iPad

210 (8%)
Linux

25 (1%)
BB10

14 (<1%)
Other Unix

11 (<1%)
iPod touch

4 (<1%)
PlayBook

2 (<1%)
Image displaying most popular platforms
 
And for all time:
 
 
Pageviews by Browsers
EntryPageviews
Safari

12387 (41%)
Chrome

8755 (29%)
Firefox

3304 (10%)
Internet Explorer

2855 (9%)
Mobile Safari

1368 (4%)
Mobile

879 (2%)
CriOS

198 (<1%)
OS;FBSV

151 (<1%)
Opera

111 (<1%)
GSA

78 (<1%)
Image displaying most popular browsers

Pageviews by Operating Systems

EntryPageviews
Windows

10559 (35%)
iPhone

5253 (17%)
Macintosh

4904 (16%)
iPad

4353 (14%)
Android

4330 (14%)
Linux

414 (1%)
Other Unix

231 (<1%)
BB10

63 (<1%)
iPod

36 (<1%)
iPod touch

23 (<1%)
Image displaying most popular platforms
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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