Happy Sixth Birthday Upon Hope

It's been a good year for the blog, I've been very happy with the quality of my writing although I need an editor. I do feel that I am starting to repeat myself, I even have to check if I've used a title before. It is good to read some of my older posts and to see that I'm as happy with them as I am with my more recent ventures.

The First Melbourne Traditionalists Conference was held in October and was a great success, this year the plan is bigger and better. To get a taste check out my talk.

The meetings of the Melbourne Traditionalists has gone from strength to strength this year. The most recent meetings have broken our previous attendance records. It's been a great twelve months and I really hope it keeps growing.

I have had 190,768 visitors to this blog in the last 6 years, this is the first year in which numbers have dropped.

2013  15,000 visitors
2014  20,000 visitors'
2015  30,000 visitors
2016  38,000 visitors
2017  44,000 visitors
2018  43,000 visitors

Only a slight decline I guess.

My most clicked on article remains What do Traditional Conservatives Believe? which has been clicked on 6263 times. My least clicked on article is Taxes, Budgets and the Economy which has only been clicked on 44 times, which is a great shame.

My visitors fall into three categories, Americans make up around 40%, Australians are about 15% and the rest of the world make up the rest at 45%. Much the same as last year.

Below are the top 10 articles that have been clicked on with the number of visitors each has received.

6263 What do Traditional Conservatives Believe?

3538 Free-Trade Versus Protectionism

3237 Why Don'tthe Poor Marry?

3122 Why do Conservatives Believe in Different Social Classes?

2241 Feminism, Why We Are Not Feminists

2171 What is More Important, the Past, the Present or the Future?

1901 The Problems of Monarchy

1865 Housewives, Good For the Economy and Society

1780 The Balanced Society

1254 Multiculturalism: The Conclusion

The list will be different from the list on your left as I believe that they are weighted towards more recent clicks.

I have forgotten the difference between a "Referring URL" and a "Referring Site", however here they are.

Referring URLs

Entry	Pageviews
https://www.google.com/	4224
https://www.google.com.au/	1662
http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/	1171
http://m.facebook.com	924
http://anotherpoliticallyincorrectblog.blogspot.com.au/	884
https://www.google.co.uk/	691
http://athriftyhomemaker.blogspot.com/	674
http://www.domain2008.com/	630
http://m.facebook.com/	592
http://ozconservative.blogspot.com.au/	585

Referring Sites

Entry	Pageviews
www.google.com	6567
uponhopeblog.blogspot.com	2506
www.google.com.au	2359
www.thinkinghousewife.com	2108
athriftyhomemaker.blogspot.com	1635
m.facebook.com	1597
www.google.co.uk	1161
t.co	1088
anotherpoliticallyincorrectblog.blogspot.com.au	1027
www.reddit.com	929

Search Keywords

Entry	Pageviews
site:blogspot.com maternity leave language:en	83
uponhopeblog.blogspot.com	60
upon hope	40
free trade vs protectionism	32
free trade versus protectionism	17
the thinking housewife	16
traditional conservatism	15
content	13
broad front strategy	12
the salisbury review	12

Here is a map showing the top 10 countries to have visited the blog in the last six years.

Pageviews by Countries

Entry	Pageviews
United States	77578
Australia	29988
Russia	14952
United Kingdom	7201
France	4974
Germany	4972
Canada	3186
Ukraine	2049
Unknown Region	1717
Indonesia	1367

The United States, Australia, Russia and the United Kingdom are all in the same place. France is up two spots. Germany and Canada has moved down. The Ukraine has stayed put. The Netherlands and Ireland have both been replaced by Unknown Region and Indonesia. 

Thank you for reading the blog and I hope this year is better than last year!

Mark Moncrieff

Upon Hope Blog - A Traditional Conservative Future

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