Category: top chair blog posts

1) 497 views: Bibendum Chair by Eileen Gray – 2013 IMM Cologne (6):

2) 479 views: Electric Chair with Butterflies by Bertozzi and Casoni:

3) 462 views: Mem Chair by Christoffe Pillet – 2013 IMM Cologne (7):

4) 414 views: Knot Your Chair:

5) 393 views: Moon Lounger by Gerd Couckhuyt:

Best of Chair Blog February, 2013

Based on our Feedburner stats.

Stats down when compared with the period January 2013:

We’ve published few posts, partly due to the fact that we had some problems again with the WordPress installation leading to considerable down time. Partly due to other business. To prevent further hiccups I’ve revamped the site.

As a consequence (well I tend to believe so) we’ve had less traffic than in January:

Visits: 27,306 vs 32,300 (-15.4%)
Pageviews: 60,966 vs 74,098 (-17.3%)

With so few post I also skipped the usual Half February stats post.

However: Stay tuned, because we have a lot of stuff in the pipeline!

1) 391 views: DIY Basalt Bench – or Sofa?:

2) 379 views: Quote by Vincent van Gogh:

3) 368 views: Postman on a chair by Vincent van Gogh:

4) 366 views: Ahem Benchvertizing:

5) 363 views: Chairs and Body Painting:

Best of Chair Blog January 2013

Based on our Feedburner stats.

Stats up when compared with the period December 2012:

We seem back on track:
Visits: 32,300 vs 14,462 (+123.34%)
Pageviews: 74,098 vs 36,450 (+103.29%)

No more Adsense here!

Google pulled us another stunt: It claimed that we do not comply with their standards with regard to safe web content and blocked our Adsense account. When you look at the numbers 4 and 5 above you could argue whether those posts are completely “safe” in the über puritan eyes of some USA based readers (and Google). However I’ve decided to leave it in stead of to contest it and stripped adsense advertizing from this site. I don’t want Google to dictate what we feature or not. That is our Freedom of Speech. In addition I live in The Netherlands which by nature is less puritan than the USA (maybe because we have exported a lot of several of our own original puritan people to the USA a long, long time ago). Finally for a couple of measly dollars they may keep it.

After this rant I’ll leave out the misc stats of the month.

(Hope you) Stay tuned (notwithstanding).

1) 359 views: Exercise Chair by Yuan Yuan:

2) 347 views: R18 Carbon Chair by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram:

3) 312 views: Thomas Schnur – White Benchchair:

4) 310 views: FildeFer by Alessandra Baldereschi:

295 views:Sable Horn Chairs by Arthur Court:

Best of Chair Blog Half December 2012 – Half January 2013

Based on our Feedburner stats.

Noteworthy: I’ve left out 2 from these top 5: Best of Chair Blog Half November – Half December 2012, also with 359 views and Top Posts December 2012 with 306 views. The reason is I want to concentrate on new posts in the period rather that a look back to a prior period.

Hurray! Google Analytics shows some recovery when compared with the period Half November – Half December 2012:

Visits: 20,131 vs 17,418 (+15.58%)
Pageviews: 45,416 vs 43,012 (+3.86%)

I wrote a post about my suspicion that Cloudflare has to do with the decrease on another blog that I started to concentrate all my under the hood activities: Does Cloudflare Take Away Your Traffic?. Cloudflare denies it, but I’m not sure they are right…Especially after I had turned off Cloudflare on January 1, 2013 traffic from Google Image searches started to come back.

And some Miscellaneous stats:

Compared with Best of Chair Blog Half November – Half December 2012

• 331 vs 324 followers on Chair Blog | Tumblr
• 2,419 vs 2,369 likes on FaceBook
• 899 vs 799 followers on Pinterest

Post Alia

Philosophically off course the question remains whether newcomers on the basis of a Google image search who leave the site again after a quick click are more important than our slowly but gradually growing basis of approximately now 3,000 fans who follow us regularly….My answer is: I care for both groups, because I want to share my chair hobby with as many people as possible.

Stay tuned!

Our 2012 Top Posts:

1) Vuzzle Chair by Christopher Daniel was our 2012 top hit with 4,956 pageviews:

Posted in February, it rocketed directly in our all time top 10 posts (see the sidebar)

2) Priceless Chair became a good second with 4,732 views:

Posted in July it attracted a lot of traffic from FaceBook.

3) Round Chair – Bookcase Combination became third with 2,966 views:

Also posted in July and also attracting a lot of Facebook attention.

4) Real Egg Chairs became fourth with 1,895 views:

It was published in August and attracted a lot of Pinterest attention.

5) Bommel by MYK: Pom Pom Poufs & a Chair a fifth with 1,637 page views:

Published in May by Julia and attracting attention both from FaceBook (16) and Pinterest (169).

The Best of 2012

This is the second year overview after Best of Chair Blog in 2011.

It is based on Google Analytics which we have in place as of January 15, 2012, after we discontinued Woopra early 20012. Only two weeks missing.

According to Google we had 1,128,036 pageviews in 2012 vs 1,227,821 in 2011, despite the heavy decline in November and December.

The golden oldies are basically the same as in 2011, except for the Vuzzle chair.

There is no 2011 post elevated as a Golden Oldy in 2012. My assumption of last year that posts have to “ripen”, was incorrect.

This is the first full year we have been hosted in London by Dediserve and I’m really glad we moved over from our prior provider as we have had comparatively few issues with Dediserve.

Very curious whether we will be able to turn the downward curve up again in 2013.