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:

Entry	Pageviews
Greg Dyke and His Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Ver... Apr 2, 2015	146
Southampton Weekly Salaries (Update final FM 2015 ... Feb 26, 2015	112
My Summer 2015 Scouting Report (Striker Edition) Jun 9, 2015	68
I Transcribed Ralph Krueger’s interview with @biga... Jun 11, 2015, 4 comments	56
England’s Coefficient Problems. Jun 2, 2015, 2 comments	45
Southampton’s European Roster Update (18 June 2015... Jun 18, 2015	43
Is America the Right Jurisdiction for the FIFA Cor... Jun 6, 2015, 3 comments	39
Premier League Salaries According to Football Mana... Jun 22, 2015	37
European Qualification Rules for Southampton Fans Jan 13, 2015, 3 comments	35
My Summer 2015 Scouting Report (Striker Edition—Ju... Jun 17, 2015	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.

 

Entry	Pageviews
The BPL Salary Cap and Southampton FC Aug 1, 2014	1326
European Qualification Rules for Southampton Fans Jan 13, 2015, 3 comments	815
Financial Fair Play and Southampton's Finances Jul 30, 2014, 1 comment	494
Southampton Weekly Salaries (Update final FM 2015 ... Feb 26, 2015	359
I am not a Secret Agent for Southampton FC’s Board... Aug 4, 2014	355
Milestone 2287 or 2351 Aug 5, 2014, 1 comment	274
Southampton Weekly Salaries Jan 5, 2015, 2 comments	273
A Southampton FC Focused Discussion of Soccernomic... Aug 1, 2014	196
How I Became a Southampton FC Fan Aug 26, 2014, 2 comments	192
Greg Dyke and His Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Ver... Apr 2, 2015	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

Entry	Pageviews
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

Entry	Pageviews
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

Entry Pageviews 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%)

Pageviews by Operating Systems

Entry Pageviews 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%)

 

And for all time:

 

 

Pageviews by Browsers

Entry Pageviews 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%)

Pageviews by Operating Systems

Entry Pageviews 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%)