It has been just over two months since I moved the contents of this blog from blogspot.com to worpdress.com. So perhaps time to take stock and review how things are.

Page hits

One of the big fears about moving is that people can no longer find you. It takes a while until Google and the other web search tools find you. But from the page hits counter on the wordpress dashboard things are holding up well, in fact increased (no doubt from links to new content and the nice remarks made by others – for which I thank you)

the graph shows hits for the month before and two after the move

One disguised blessing for Blogspot users was the incompatibility of the RSS feed with orablogs; this meant that I had republish my feed using Feedburner, so all I had to do keep orablogs knowing of my existence was to edit my feedburner source URL. The number of readers showing in feedburner is increasing

and WordPress also reports high number of direct readers of that feed

Blog design

I like the wordpress template I use; the blue looks professional and also matches my eyes. Having a calendar was something I always wanted. There are a few quirky things like links having to be classified to appear in the link bar and the ban on embed javascript. The later has affected the data I can collect from Statcounter – I still know where my visitors ISP are and also how many visits they make, but not the pages they hit or the referring sites or even the search engine terms they use to find me – this sort of thing is on the WordPress blog stats page but consolidated to a per day basis