Reader Appreciation Award, thank you Ajaytao!

Ajaytao of the blog Ajaytao 2010 has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Reader Appreciation Award. An award which is new for this blog. Thanks, my dear blogger friend, so much for this kind gesture!

The rules of this award are:

Identify and show appreciation of the blogger who awarded you.
You must add the award logo to your blog.
Tell your readers 7 things about yourself.
You must nominate 5-10 of your favorite bloggers for this award.
Inform your nominees that you nominated them.

Seven things about myself:

1. Probably today, my blog will get its 275,000th visit ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011. At the moment, the counter says 274,593.

2. Where did most visits to my blog come from so far today?

Country	Views
United States	52
France	13
United Kingdom	6
Pakistan	6
Australia	5
Afghanistan	5
Philippines	4
Brazil	3
Canada	3
Mexico	2
India	2
Indonesia	2
New Zealand	2

3. Where did most visits to my blog come from, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Top Views by Country for all days ending 2013-08-28 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	91,789
United Kingdom	39,027
Canada	15,653
Netherlands	10,738
Australia	7,553
Greece	7,375
India	6,853
Jamaica	5,469
Germany	5,335
Romania	5,055
France	4,665
New Zealand	3,265
Sweden	2,936
Italy	2,814
Belgium	2,747
Spain	2,596
Ireland	2,525
Armenia	2,398
Philippines	2,395
Singapore	2,137
Tunisia	1,955
Bahrain	1,758
Indonesia	1,732
South Africa	1,463
Saudi Arabia	1,428
Brazil	1,420
Switzerland	1,373
Japan	1,219
Pakistan	1,202
Malaysia	1,157
Turkey	1,113
United Arab Emirates	1,104
Poland	1,062
Norway	1,039

4. Which blog posts and pages attracted most visits this quarter?

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		6,569
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		852
Rare night parrot found in Australia		665
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		586
About		504
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		463
Bronzino painting restored after prude censorship		339
US women soldiers raped, then persecuted		274
Bahrain 14 August pro-democracy demonstration		235
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger		224
JPMorgan bank advocates dictatorship		201

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		42,182
British Thatcher aide accused of child abuse		5,786
About		2,511
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		2,497
After 35 years, wounds of Vietnamese napalm girl Kim Phuc still hurt		2,377
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation		1,702
Boy raped by priest, then castrated		1,658
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		1,491
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		1,078
Thatcher’s Downing Street child abuse scandal		1,033
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		1,021

Referrers for 7 days ending 2013-08-28 (Summarized)

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		1,489
WordPress.com Reader		153
WordPress Dashboard		50
topix.com		39
go.videoentertainmnt.com		26
kuidle.com		21
Facebook		20
Twitter		17
mail.yahoo.com		14
disqus.com		12
dcnanature.org/conservation-science-red-billed-tropicbirds-on-saba-and-st-eustatius/		9
elenadragomirro.wordpress.com		8

7. Most popular topics Dear Kitty. Some blog has written about:

Topic	Views
Environment	711
Human rights	620
Peace and war	421
Economic, social, trade union, etc.	398
Biology	364
Crime	361
Birds	355
UK	279
Women’s issues	266

If you tag your posts effectively, this panel will show you which topics get the most traffic. Snapshot generated from your top posts over the past week.

My ten nominees are:

1. Angelica Tales

2. Write, Write, Write, Sleep, Write

3. The Canberra Bus Stop Exhibition

4. Damantigui’s Blog

5. Micheline’s Blog

6. edwincolonpagan

7. Denisa Aricescu Poezii

8. JSC: Jamaicans in Solidarity with Cuba

9. Cindy Knoke

10. wander artist