With LibDemBlogs now in it’s forth year, I thought I would display some stats.

We started the year displaying 108 bloggers, and today we have 168.

The most popular blogs were:

1. Liberal Democrat Voice (5,284)
2. James Graham (1,523)
3. Jonathan Calder (1,410)
4. Jonathan Wallace (1,364)
5. Paul Walter (1,136)
6. Nich Starling (977)
7. Linda Jack (749)
8. Duncan Borrowman (741)
9. Jonathan Fryer (644)
10. Andy Mayer (573)

Most popular posts:

1. Sajjad Karim defects to Tories (124) – LibDemVoice
2. Team Clegg: in full scale meltdown? (110) – James Graham
3. Is Sajjid Karim as big a scumbag as he is being made out to be? (108) – Nich Starling
4. The verdict on Huhne and Clegg’s fuzzy polls (106) – James Graham
5. Lib Dem leadership update (100) – Steve Webb
6. Take it down, Chris (99) – James Graham
7. Nick Clegg up close (98) – Paul Walter
8. Shock candidate for Lib Dem leader (97) – Jonathan Calder
9. A new banner for Team Huhne (97) – Nich Starling
10. Huhne’s campaign turns negative (96) – Anders Hanson

The most popular days to blog:

1. 18th December (136) – Clegg wins, Steve Webb not real
2. 15th October (102) – Ming quits
3. 18th November (102) – Calamity Clegg-gate
4. 20th November (102) – Some disks go missing
5. 26th November (101) – Saj Karim defects

Days which had high posts to blogs ratios:

1. 18th December (0.8395) – Clegg wins
2. 10th May (0.7500) – Blair finally goes
3. 24th January (0.7170) – Campbell “Troops home by October”
4. 15th October (0.7034) – Ming quits
5. 21st March (0.6967) – Browns last budget

The quietest days:

1. 25th December (20) – See, even bloggers have lives
2. 26th December (20)
3. 2nd June (23)
4. 8th April (24)
5. 25th August (24)

Browsers:

1. Internet Explorer – 68.50%
2. Firefox – 24.35%
3. Safari – 3.85%
4. Opera -2.20%
5. Mozilla – 0.66%

Page stats:

• Visits: 148,760
• Unique Visitors: 25,591
• Page Views: 310,321
• New visits: 16.78%
• Visits to the mobile version of the site: 4,267 (1.38%)

Whilst most of the search referalls were variations of Lib/Liberal/Dem/Democrats/Blogs some which caught my eye were

• brian paddick latest leaflet (229)
• conservative half-price bus and tram travel (145)
• christianophobia (28)
• miranda piercy wedding (27)
• don liberali who (24)
• harry potter and the deathly howells (6) – I always thought their was something dodgy about that Will!

Some caveats, only the most recent 10 posts per blogger are shown on LibDemBlogs, so some archive pages might not contain all the posts on that day. The most popular blog is counted by the number of click-throughs to the main URL of a blog, it is excluding all links direct to blog posts. The most popular posts only count those clicked directly on the title of the post on LibDemBlogs, excluded is any links followed via the RSS feed, or people who clicked on the authors name.

Happy 2008!