I haven't posted a monthly retrospective since Monthly Meta for December 2015 so it's time to catch up. I'm skipping over January and March to post April. Why? Because it was the most complete draft available. Hey, sometimes I'm lazy.
April 2016 was the second best month in the history of the blog with 18,084 page views. That works out to 602.8 page views per day and 548.0 page views per entry (there were 33). The blog also passed 600,000 total page views for its history on April 1, just over six months since it passed 500,000 page views late in September 2015. Since this is the first full month since my statistics entry for the fifth year of this blog, I can say that I'm meeting or exceeding my goal of between 16,500 and 17,500 page views per month for the current blogging year. Yay! Finally, the blog earned 44 comments, an average of 1.47 comments per day and 1.33 comments per post.
I'll mention the most liked on Google Plus over the jump, so I'll begin with this blog's activity on Pinterest. The most pinned entry for last month was "Drink recipes for July 4th from Tipsy Bartender" from July 4, 2015 with one pin and one like. It was a slow month for this blog on Pinterest.
The most commented on article during the month was "Springtime for Trump" from March 2, 2016 with 8 comments during April. It now has 9 total. It earned 88 more page views during the month for a total of 483. It got the additional page views and all the comments from being shared at Greer's blog.
Two entries received honorable mentions by tying for most commented on entry posted during April with four comments. The first was "Drum corps for the Wyoming Democratic Caucuses" posted on April 9, 2016, one of four entries connecting drum corps with the election. These came thanks to Robin of Your Daily Dose and Paul W. of You Might Notice a Trend. It also landed in twelfth for page views among last month's posts with 121.
The other entry earning an honorable mention for most commented on entry posted during April was "2016 Saturn Awards for Television" posted April 3, 2016 with 4 comments, again thanks to Paul and Robin. It also came in eleventh for page views with 144.
Follow over the jump for the ten (actually twelve) most read entries for the month.
