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Blog Year 2016 - what do the statistics tell us?

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Now the blog year 2016 is over, and it's actually kind of fun to look at the statistics. When you put a lot of work into writing and photographing and blogging, it's fun to see if anyone is reading. And who is reading? And what? Maybe you can learn something along the way and become a little wiser for the coming year ...

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Thank you to all readers!

Blommor
Thank you to all the great readers!

Firstly, we have a group of loyal readers who check in here more or less regularly. We would like to start by saying a big THANK YOU to you: you are amazing! Many of you comment often and we appreciate your honest, funny and wise comments very much. This is what makes blogging so much fun!

In addition to these regular readers, we have a large number of visitors who drop in from time to time, or who stumble upon a post through a Google search. These readers are of course also important to us!

How many people find the blog?

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We have looked at the statistics for 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016, and we see that a whole bunch of people have checked in. That's great! The pie chart shows that 48 % of the visitors are repeat visitors.

  • Unique visitors: 149 864
  • Page views: 577 274

Who are our visitors?

So who are the visitors to our blog? Well, according to Google Analytics we can see that the typical visitor is a woman between 55-64 years old living in Stockholm, or at least in Sweden. But we also have quite a few male readers! Do you recognise yourself in the statistics?

  • queue: 62 % women and 38 % men
  • Country): Sweden (82 %), Norway (4 %), Finland (2 %), Spain (2 %), USA (2 %), Portugal (1 %) and others.
  • Location: Stockholm (22 %), Göteborg (6 %), Malmö (3 %), Helsingborg (2 %), Örebro (1 %), Lund (1 %) and others
  • Age: See diagram below
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How do visitors read?

According to all forecasts, it will become more and more common to read blogs (and other things) on mobile phones and tablets. We have worked a little during the year to get the blog more adapted for mobile phones, and it makes sense if you look at the statistics. How do you read our blog and how do you think it works?

  • Unit: Computer (44 %), mobile phone (32 %), tablet (24 %).

What do visitors read most?

When you have a blog, it's always interesting to see what the most read posts are - and it's almost never what you think! For example, it's interesting that our most read blog post in 2016 is a post about food and prices in Portugal, which we wrote in January 2015...

Generally speaking, our most popular blog posts are about motorhomes, pitches, living in a houseboat, Croatia, Albania and other European destinations such as Portugal, Iceland, Budapest and Sardinia. Some "How to" posts are also popular, such as The art of eating a meal in Italy, Eating whole crab - how to and How to afford travelling. Here is the top list for 2016:

5 most read pages

  1. Travel tips: Croatia
  2. About us: Motorhome
  3. Pitches
  4. About us: The houseboat
  5. About us: Helena & Peter

5 most read blog posts

  1. Food, wine and prices in Portugal
  2. 10 nice campsites in Europe
  3. What is a reasonable price for a car park?
  4. The world's 5 most expensive motorhomes
  5. Water leak in the motorhome (and a lot of other faults)

So, what conclusions do we draw from this now? Well, I don't really know ... That we will continue to blog about caravanning, travelling and things that we think are fun? What do you want to read about on the blog? And you who have your own blog ... do you check your statistics sometimes to see who the readers are and what is most popular?

Mat, vin och priser i Portugal
Food in Portugal - very interesting if you believe the statistics!

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