Reader Appreciation Award, thank you so much Horty!

My dear friend Horty of the blog It Is What It Is has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Reader Appreciation Award. Thanks, Horty, so much for this generous 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. Where did most visits to my blog come from today so far?

Country	Views
United States	130
Jamaica	29
Australia	11
United Kingdom	7
Saudi Arabia	3
Philippines	3
Mexico	3
Netherlands	3
Canada	3
New Zealand	2
India	2
Turkey	2
Bahrain	2

2. Where did most visits to my blog come from this year?

Top Views by Country for 365 days ending 2014-07-12 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	71,688
United Kingdom	31,834
Canada	9,964
Jamaica	8,938
Netherlands	8,427
Australia	6,695
Germany	5,212
France	4,980
India	4,604
Sweden	3,473
Greece	2,820
Ireland	2,198
Spain	2,088
Italy	1,998
South Africa	1,919
Bahrain	1,830
Belgium	1,820
Philippines	1,777
Romania	1,595

3. Which pages and blog posts attracted most visits today do far?

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		46
‘Birds descended not from dinosaurs, but from more ancient reptiles’		9
Community Heart Award, thanks so much Horty!		8
Two million Britons strike against government austerity		5
About		4
Japanese World War II forced prostitution and art		4
Dutch in Suriname, most cruel slave-masters		4
Japanese young women’s fashion		3
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		3
Steven Spielberg attacked by Facebook users for ‘killing dinosaur’		3

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

Top Posts for 365 days ending 2014-07-12 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		31,082
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		3,765
About		1,891
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		1,546
Most hated animals top 50		1,169
Dutch in Suriname, most cruel slave-masters		1,007
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		968
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		885
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		869
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger		790
Rubens, Rembrandt, differences in what they painted		758
Japanese forced prostitution women’s stories		663
US women soldiers raped, then persecuted		650
Awards		626
Slavery and love in Suriname, new film		600
Frequently asked questions		596
Bahraini torture princes in Florida Ironman		559

5. Which referrers referred most to my blog this year?

Referrers for 365 days ending 2014-07-12 (Summarized)

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		103,784
WordPress.com Reader		3,498
WordPress Dashboard		2,726
Facebook		2,244
Twitter		1,311
topix.com		702
en.wordpress.com		649
Reddit		566
mail.yahoo.com		464
en.gravatar.com/petrel41		361
topix.net		239

6. Which links on my blog were clicked most this year?

Clicks for 365 days ending 2014-07-12 (Summarized)

URL	Clicks
en.wikipedia.org	1,096
WordPress.com Media	254
dearkitty1.wordpress.com	113
r.zemanta.com	107
hrexach.files.wordpress.com	106
gravatar.com	99
wsws.org	78
morningstaronline.co.uk	71
rspb.org.uk	68
change.org	66
sianeparkinson.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/income-inequality-and-voter-turnout-at-the-2010-british-general-election-a-study-using-individual-and-aggregate-data/	62
avaaz.org	60
WordPress.com Reader	58
wildlifenews.co.uk	57
hrexach.wordpress.com	51

7. Most popular topics my blog has written about

Topic	Views
Human rights	626
Environment	511
Crime	441
Economic, social, trade union, etc.	427
Peace and war	361
UK	327
Birds	312
Mammals	246
Biology	218

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. Don Charisma

2. Muck

3. Fat Wagtail’s Wildlife

4. Something Like a Storybook

5. American Blogger in UAE

6. Leeds No Borders

7. Illuminating Aotearoa

8. A Changing Wild World

9. GOREAN STYLE ADDICTS

10. Muse Writer

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