Happy New Year to all of our blog community from around the world. As has been our tradition on this blog, with the start of 2020, I thought I would share our annual “State of The Blog” statistics from the last year. It has been a great year for the blog with the highest traffic in the history of our blog. We continued our expansion internationally. While I usually post a separate blog when we passed another million mark, the crush of impeachment meant that our passage of the 38,000,000 view mark went unheralded and we are well on our way to 39,000,000.
Thanks to all of our regulars and particularly Darren Smith who continues to monitor the blog and write on the weekend. We also now have an email following of over 105,0000 and a twitter following of almost 100,000.
We had 886 posted columns in 2019 and 84,526 comments.
In addition to the United States, our two leading contributing countries were again Canada and Great Britain among 226 other countries.
Over the last year, the top ten countries outside of the United States were:
1. Canada
2. United Kingdom
3. Australia
4. Germany
5. Mexico
6. India
7. Netherlands
8. France
9. New Zealand
10. Philipines
The most popular post in 2019 might surprise you. It was Court Orders Arizona Deputy to Jail After He Refuses to Apologize for Swiping Attorney’s Notes in Court
That blog was followed in popularity by the following:
2. Muggle College Settles With Wizarding School
3. Trump Stands Impeached: A Response To Noah Feldman
4. Pelosi Again Refuses To Hold Impeachment Vote
5. Swalwell: Failing To Turn Over Documents Is Proof Of Guilt
Thanks again everyone for making this site and 2019 such a great success!
Best wishes for the New Year!
Jonathan Turley