Sunday, 3 August 2008

July visits - (just) up again

Despite the start of the holiday season, visits to stuartking.net increased in July for the tenth consecutive month.

We had 3,630 unique visitors compared to 3,579 in June, who returned 7,508 times (7,384 in June), and viewed 21,874 pages. 469 unique visitors alone turned up to follow my reporting of the stabbing on Putney Heath at the start of the month.

More recently, my views on green taxes drew - and continue to draw - interest, not least because they were picked up nationally by Tory blogger Iain Dale, who rather desperately tried to portray them as support for Conservative Party policy (a nice try but to do that the Tories would actually have to have some coherent policies!); and the Adam Smith Institute.

I'm off on holiday shortly so forgive me for not posting for a couple of weeks; but in the meantime you'll have a new look website to play around with in a few days' time as the changes I wrote about a few weeks ago are nearly complete.

And, if you haven't yet voted for my website in the Total Politics Guide to Political Blogging, there are still a few days before nominations close and I'd really appreciate your support. Click here for more on that.