Time for the start-of-the-month blog stats.

Visits per month:

April: 66,867
March: 52,884
February: 34,424
January: 27,267
December: 23,458
November: 20,379
October: 13,790
September: 9,387
August: 4,941

My guess is that monthly readership is getting to the levelling-off point, but we’ll see. For April, the site averaged over 2,200 visits per day (much higher on the weekdays, obviously, lower on the weekends), which would put it somewhere around 70th on this listing of blogs by daily readership. (One striking thing I’ve noted on this listing is the gradual decline in readership for the Volokh Conspiracy, which used to be about 10th on this list a month or so ago (and which used to average 11-12,000 visits per day). This may be a case of “too many chefs” spoiling the stew.)

Roughly 40% of the visits came from U.S. educational institutions (“.edu” addresses), while roughly 75% came from U.S. domain sites. About 5% of visits come from the U.K., 3% from Canada, and 1.5% from Australia and New Zealand. The Far East (Japan and Singapore primarily, but also much smaller numbers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines) accounts for not quite 2% of the visits. Scandinavia (with Finland leading the way, followed by Norway, and Sweden a distant third) sent about .5% of the visits last month, while Continental Europe (with France and Belgium out front, but also visits from Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands, and Italy, among others) accounted for another 2% of visits. I also had 1 visit each from Slovenia, Guatemala, Niue, Bahamas, Yugoslavia, China, Cyprus, Toto, and Peru; it’s fair to say that the portion of the population in China visiting my blog is, shall we say, a bit low, whereas in Niue it may be rather high. Ireland accounts for about .3% of visits, and Israel and South Africa the same.

Thanks to all for stopping by.