All a-twitter for "Blogstone" for Coffee w/ Clark

Yesterday's "blogstone" for Coffee with Clark

Coffee with Clark reached a "blogstone" yesterday--more than 7,000 page views in a calendar month. That's a long way from May 2009 when it started. And a short and  accelerating way from December, when it passed 5,000, surpassing 6,000 in January.
This month was also the month with the fourth most posts since 2009. Of course, part of those were rerunning the story of the Booth, so maybe that doesn't count, but it did build traffic.
What really catches attention is my @Okieprof Twitter for Journalists #clarkclass. How do I know?
The post about Sara Cowan @DeluxeOK "Thinking in tweets--revolutionaries in #clarkclass" was the most popular of the month so far, with 119 page views.

Here are the numbers:

•  7,039--May page views at early yesterday.
• 6,645--Previous high month, January, 2014

Total page views--136,645, compared to 105,000+in December.

While I've had readers in almost 130 countries, here are the countries with most page views:

	United States 83148 China 5374 Germany 5168 Russia 4660 France 4242 United Kingdom 3140 Ukraine 2799 Canada 1050 Spain 1023 Poland 860
	Blog posts per year 2009--339 2010--292 2011--135 2012--203 2013--252 2014--147 so far Months with most posts August, 2009--76 July, 2009--70 January, 2010--57 May, 2014--48, so far April, 2010--47 December, 2013--39 Day with most page views Dec, 23, 2013--532! A watercolor "Christmas eve journey" Most popular post of all time 2670 page views--All aboard for Bartlesville , October, 2010 (I have no idea why) Actually top six posts of all time include the words "All aboard." Lots of train buffs? My favorite and most creative posts--helping earn the Okie Blog Best Writing in the State Award in 2009  "The Booth is a verb"--More than 10,000 words in multiple chapters telling the story of the booth and my friend, the late Bob Illidge, from 2009, repeated this month.

Internationally speaking

I find blogging fascinating, the longer I work at it--more than three years now--because of the reach of digital media. people in more and more countries keep logging in, finding something of interest. It underscores to me how international English is as a language. But Oh, I'd like to know what attracts them in those far-a-way places.
But I'm also mystified that my top audience post is "All Aboard for Bartlesville" http://clarkcoffee.blogspot.com/2010/10/all-aboard-for-bartlesville.html with more than 1,100 hits followed by "All aboard" http://clarkcoffee.blogspot.com/2010/08/all-aboard.html with 900. Most popular recently has been my "Memorial Day among the Gravestones." http://clarkcoffee.blogspot.com/2012/05/memorial-day-stories-amid-gravestones.html
Most readers come from the US, followed by Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, in that order, all with more than 1,000 page views. Rounding out the top ten are India, Netherlands, Slovenia, Ukraine, France and Canada.  Fascinating.
Anyway, here, by geographic region are the places my readers have come from, in no particular order.

• Europe--Poland, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, British Isles, Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Isle of Man, Luxemborg, Switzerland, Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Slovenia, Portugal, Estonia, Netherlands, Serbia, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovnia, Latvia, Greece, Belgium, Estonia
• South America--Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico
• Mideast--Saudia Arabia, UAE, Israel, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Cyprus,
• Asia--Japan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangledesch, South Korea, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Armenia
• North America--US, Canada, Mexico
• Africa--Nigeria, Egypt, Algeria, Gabon
• Oceania--Australia, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia