About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 760,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 14 years for that many people to see it. – WordPress.com presents The Honest Courtesan 2012 in blogging
WordPress is just wonderful for someone who revels in organization as I do; as I explained in last year’s review column,
…the statistics page displays a bar graph of page views (with tabs to view it in days, weeks or months); a running total of both daily and all-time views…for the blog as a whole and breaking it down by post and page; numbers and links of all sites and searches which bring visitors to the blog; and the number of clicks on links in my blog (with all figures broken down by day, week, month, quarter, year and all time)…
Last year, international visitors were grouped only by continent, and then only in the annual report; since February 25th, it’s broken down by country on my normal statistics page. The annual year-end report was released on New Year’s Eve, and on top of that I’d like to share some “top ten” numbers as I did last year.
I received a total of 762,210 visitors in 2012; the average number of hits per day was 2082, but it was much higher in the second half of the year. My best month was July, with a total of 94,145 views (3037 per day) and my best day was September 26th, with a total of 8277 views in a single day (thanks to someone featuring a link to “Saint Nicholas” on Reddit). That site gave me the fifth-greatest number of referrals for the year, 3883 in all; it was exceeded by Twitter (15,190 hits), The Agitator (10,598), Facebook (5570) and Google Reader (4828). #6 was Popehat with 2117, #7 Feministe (“The Many Types of Prostitutes in Ancient Rome”) with 1558, #8 Psychology Today (Satoshi Kanazawa’s “Are All Women Essentially Prostitutes?”) with 1143, #9 A Voice for Men with 876 and #10 The Atlantic (“The White Savior Industrial Complex“) with 767. The top ten countries in which my readers live together account for roughly 78% of all of my traffic; #1 is the United States (55%), #2 the United Kingdom (6.8%), #3 Canada (5.4%), #4 Australia (2.7%), #5 Germany (1.8%), #6 India (1.5%), and #7, #8, #9 and #10 France, Singapore, Italy and The Netherlands respectively, each with about 0.7%.
The most common search term which discovered this blog was “rhinoceros”, with about 13,810 hits; permutations of “the honest courtesan” were second with roughly 10,500 hits. Third place was held by various versions of “ashley madison” (many expecting “free” credits), a total of 6112 hits; then “soapland” in many different forms for a total of 4488. “maggie mcneill” (spelled several different ways) produced 2764 views, followed closely by many different ways to say “vulva shapes” (2683 total). “veronica franco” brought 2167 hits, “hells angels” 1423, “plaçage” 983 and “salvation army santas” 697.
My top ten posts for the year were as follows:
| Name | Date | # of hits in 2012 |
| A Visit to Soapland | October 21st, 2011 | 25,011 |
| Rhinoceros | January 21st, 2012 | 22,199 |
| Ashley Madison | January 30th, 2011 | 16,225 |
| All Shapes and Sizes | September 8th, 2010 | 14,040 |
| Black Men | September 18th, 2010 | 7,472 |
| Saint Nicholas | December 6th, 2010 | 7,425 |
| Meretrices and Prostibulae | November 3rd, 2010 | 6,039 |
| A Whore in the Bedroom | September 9th, 2010 | 5,021 |
| Veronica Franco | October 1st, 2010 | 4,722 |
| None of Your Business | October 11th, 2011 | 3,922 |
The top post by comment hasn’t changed much since last year:
| Name | Date | # of comments by 12/31/12 |
| That Is So Hot! | April 19th, 2011 | 196 |
| Speaking in Prostitute | June 17th, 2011 | 171 |
| The Enlightenment Police | October 1st, 2011 | 144 |
| Universal Criminality | January 15th, 2012 | 137 |
| Pendulum | April 9th, 2011 | 134 |
| Their Lips Are Moving | April 25th, 2011 | 132 |
| Creeping Rot | April 18th, 2011 | 123 |
| Public Service Announcement | June 12th, 2011 | 122 |
| Savaging | March 27th, 2011 | 119 |
| Neither Cold Nor Hot | April 6th, 2011 | 114 |
…and the nine top commenters (after myself) were Sailor Barsoom with 2822, Krulac with 1015, Laura with 919, C. Andrew 599, Asehpe 539, Comixchik 502, Gorbachev 479, Aspasia 273 and Kewilson 189.
Well, that’s about it; I’m really pleased to see the numbers increasing because it lets me know that my message is getting out all over the world. Many of my readers have said that I inspire them to fight against prohibitionist lies, and that’s even better; the more of us are out there, telling the truth and debunking the myths, the sooner the balance will tip and governments which criminalize consensual adult behavior will be scorned for the repressive tyrannies they are.
