2025 Stats.

I am a little late to the year end summary due to the Venezuela crisis but here are some stats for last year.

I wrote 45 posts, an average of 3.75/month. My busiest month was February with nine posts and my slowest was July, with none. Not sure why I was uninspired to write in mid-winter.

KP received 23.4 thousand views during the year, November being the busiest month and July the slowest for viewership. It attracted 14 thousand visitors and 193 comments. The majority of viewers came form NZ, the US, Australia and the PRC, although the distribution was global. Besides search engines, the biggest referring sources were Kiwiblog, The Standard and X. Most of the comments were from regular readers, to whom I owe thanks for their support, with a lesser amount coming from occasional visitors and trolls.

As always, NZ related posts received the most views. An April post about the Green’s identity politics (520 views) and last month’s post about the Bondi shootings (395) received the most views., with other NZ-related posts occupying most of the following top ten spots (average of 339.2). The blog retains its niche in the political blog ecosystem but does not appear to be growing readership in any significant measure.

Overall KP remains in a holding pattern. I am the sole contributor and pay the bills (to Word Press and Dreamhost). I continue to ask that if anyone is interested in contributing, particularly those with a female/feminist and Maori/Pacifika angle, please get in touch. These areas are beyond my competence to discuss in depth, so any help in that regard, within the boundaries of humility and courteousness, is welcome. (I say this because past requests like this have brought about interest from egotists, polemicists and just plain malignant personalities).

On a positive note albeit tangental to this blog itself, it looks like the “A View from Afar” podcast will re-start in February. For those who may be curious, although my partner and friend Selwyn Manning was always prepared to continue, a combination of personal circumstances and ideological despair overwhelmed me after Trump’s re-election and subsequent events, so I decided to take a prolonged break. AVFA was humming along in its own niche, but I just was not up to putting in the prep and presentation time even if Selwyn was. He was very understanding and just told me to get in touch when ready to resume. We have now spoken and will do just that next month if things go as planned.

All the best to all of your for the New Year.