August 2019 Blog Statistics

August 20, 2019

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It’s time for the twentieth blog stat report on the twentieth of the month!

My first blog stat report was on January 2018. Four more months and I’ll have two year’s worth of these reports.

This month’s report will be interesting due to the change in domain. It turns out that it only affected two of the tools I use - namely Alexa (which ranks domains) and Google Webmaster Tools.

I was able to publish five posts this month:

Alexa

Alexa has data for both the old hendrixjoseph.github.io domain and the new joehxblog.com domain:

Alexa Ranking for the old hendrixjoseph.github.io

Global Rank → 369,854
Rank in the United States → 65,104
Total Sites Linking In → 58

Alexa Ranking for the new joehxblog.com

Global Rank → 868,422
Rank in the United States → 96,362
Total Sites Linking In → 0 (stat absent)

Google Analytics

Since Google Analytics is dependent on a bit of JavaScript on the webpages, it was largely unaffected by the domain change.

Sessions → 2,231
Users → 1,949
Pageviews → 2,954

Google Analytics Graph for August

Google Search Console

Google Search Console (aka Google Webmaster Tools) is where things are looking interesting. If you look at the graph for hendrixjoseph.github.io compared to the graph for joehxblog.com, you’ll notice that performance for hendrixjoseph.github.io is tapering off whereas performance for joehxblog.com is gaining traction.

Google Search Console for hendrixjoseph.github.io

Clicks → 1,280
Search Impressions → 61,800
Average position → 29.1

Google Search Console Graph for hendrixjoseph.github.io in August

Google Search Console for joehxblog.com

Clicks → 74
Search Impressions → 1,620
Average position → 43.6

Google Search Console Graph for joehxblog.com in August

Sum of Stats for Google Search Console

I think it makes sense that I can combine “clicks” and “search impressions” for both properties. I don’t think it made sense to combine (or average) the stats for “average position,” however.

Clicks → 1,354
Search Impressions → 63420

AdSense, like Google Analytics, is largely unaffected by the domain change, since it, too, is dependent by a bit of JavaScript I have injected on each page.