Thursday, 30 October 2014

Popular Posts

Given all that has been going on the last month with the Aldi Store planning application I thought it might be good to look at the most popular posts this month as provided by Blogger itself, all be it one day short of the end of the month. Now I take such things as the stats provided by Blogger with a large pinch of salt, as the detail in the stats is very lacking.


Blogger basically only gives you the number of page views for individual pages and a web browser and operating system percentages over the lifetime of the blog, however it does allow you to look at the top ten posts for a month and these, this month, were:
  1. Aldi Plans for Oakham get Approval
  2. Police investigate Rutland County Council
  3. Politics is a dirty word in Rutland 
  4. Social Media Campaign to get Aldi to Oakham 
  5. Aldi Plans to be Torpedoed Tomorrow 
  6. Rutland County Council Election Results 
  7. Not to late to have your say - Aldi Oakhm 
  8. NHS Management tell staff have "No to Mugs" 
  9. Harrington School gets the go ahead
  10. Lucy turns Four
Given the local interest and the lack of reporting in the local press and the immediacy of the internet, the interest in the local politics comes without little surprise that the Aldi planning application comes up high on the list. The only one that did come as a surprise is the last one, Lucy turns Four, which dates back to an event that is nearly three years. Since the start of the year appeared in the top ten posts of all time and it would be interesting to find out why.

Other posts that seem to get a lot of readers are those to do with politics in general and the posts looking at the posts made this month, especially the post about the UKIP MEP and the massage parlour. Seems everyone likes aa bit of scandal.