5 Comments

• Stephen Donnelly 1st Feb '15 - 5:42pm

  Are the 16800 ‘unique’ visitors?

• Paul Walter 1st Feb '15 - 6:11pm

  Yes. We use the WordPress statistics facility and the “visitors” count by week, which is explained here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors
  “Views” were 55,000+ last week.

• Stephen Hesketh 1st Feb '15 - 9:37pm

  @Stephen Donnelly 1st Feb ’15 – 5:42pm

  Following Paul’s link:
  [[The two main units of traffic measurement are views and unique visitors. A view is counted when a visitor loads or reloads a page. A visitor is counted when we see a user or browser for the first time in a given period (day, week, month).
  You may notice that weekly unique visitors is less than the sum of daily visitors for the same week. This occurs when the same visitor appears multiple times during the week]]

  So “A visitor is counted when we see a user or browser for the first time in a given period (day, week, month).”

  Hmmm … I will now await someone popping up to suggest that we, ‘the usual suspects’, must have at least 16,000 unique browsers between us 🙂

• JohnTilley 2nd Feb '15 - 8:49am

  Stephen Hesketh 1st Feb ’15 – 9:37pm
  “…Hmmm … I will now await someone popping up to suggest that we, ‘the usual suspects’, must have at least 16,000 unique browsers between us ”

  Is there an official list of “the usual suspects” ? Or is it too long to publish?

  On Paul Walter’s helpful information – I read through it.
  It was interesting – although I do not pretend to understand it all. I have often scratched my head about the apparently huge gulf between what seems to be the tens of thousandsof people who read LDV and the few dozen who comment.

  The recent innovation of having special zoned-off discussions which Paul has initiated on the last few Wednesdays has brought in some new names making comments. My guess is that Paul would not regard it as a “flood” of newbies.

  I started regularly reading and making comments in October/November 2013. Having looked at some of my early comments it would seem that I was rapidly “promoted” to being described as “one of the usual suspects”. I am still not sure what I am suspected of. I had more than one person accusing me of having spent all the years since the 2010 election being negative and attacking Nick Clegg.

  Anyone can search through the archives and discover that this accusation was completely untrue. I only mention this because in the last week I have seen some people described as “whingers and moaners” Anyone who questions or comments on Clegg’s venture into Friday night light entertainment in other than a laudatory fashion is accused of being “a political enemy”.

  Such accusations seem to be born out of a blind, unquestioning adherence to whatever is passed down from above.
  I would expect that in a supremely hierarchical party such as Marie Le Pen’s or The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  It seems out of place amongst people who call themselves Liberals and Democrats.

• Ian Sanderson (RM3) 2nd Feb '15 - 10:55am

  2. ‘Clegg on The Last Leg – first thoughts (14 comments) by Caron Lindsay’
  Perhaps some anti-Cleggies missed the capitalisation and opened it in false hope.