2024 End of year list 5: Blog traffic

In case you’ve had just about enough of my end of year lists, be reassured: This is the last one, and I don’t expect you to read it – it’s mainly so I’ll have a record.

Here are the posts that attracted most clicks on my blog in 2024:

1. Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (October 2023, 1618 clicks)
2. The Book Club and Paul Murray’s Bee Sting (April 2024, 775 clicks)
3. Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother (March 2023, 744 clicks)
4. Ellen van Neerven’s Throat (July 2020, 625 clicks)
5. Mary Oliver’s Twelve Moons (January 2019, 597 clicks)
6. Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren, the book club, page 77 (March 2024, 533 clicks)
7. Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe (July 2019, 412 clicks)
8. Robert Alter’s Psalms (September 2020, 365 clicks)
9. Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos and the Book Club (April 2024, 364 clicks)
10. Rebecca Huntley’s Italian Girl (April 2022, 357 clicks)

Ocean Vuong’s book was at the top of the list for most of the year, and then news of the movie of Small Thiings Like These sent a lot of clicks to that post. Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus dominated the list for years, but has now dropped off altogether. Mary Oliver, Ellen van Neerven and Robert Alter are the stayers.

One more bit of nerdiness. Here’s WordPress’s list of my all-time top ten posts. Apart from changing positions, the main change from last year is that Philip Larkin got bumped by Claire Keegan:

1. Travelling with the Art Student (November 2014, 3558 hits)
2. The Book Group and Shirley Hazzard’s Transit of Venus (June 2018, 2721 hits)
3. (Re-)reading Kevin Gilbert’s poetry (April 2012, 2430 hits)
4. Mary Oliver’s Twelve Moons (April 2020, 1841 hits)
5. Bran Nue Dae (January 2010, 1805 hits)
6. Mary Oliver’s House of Light (April 2020, 1784 hits)
7. Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (October 2023, 1676 hits)
8. The book group’s Harp in the South (February 2011, 1431 hits)
9. Jasper Jones at the Book Group (May 2010, 1352 hits)
10. Contemporary Asian Australian Poets (June 2013, 1236 hits)

That’s it. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to those statistics. Some of you I know IRL, some I’ve met through email etc, some only in the comments section, some I know only as anonymous clickers. I’m happy that you’ve visited the blog. Come again.