With all this fuss about the top British Blogs, I thought I may as well tell you what I know about it. mmChronic has suggested I use the referral traffic for the little BritBlog icons to give us an idea of what the popular British Blogs are. It’s not especially accurate, but it could be considered a rough guide I guess. And this method is really open to abuse, so I won’t be publishing the list based on this data again. However, I’m beginning to think of ways in which we could achieve more accurate results in the future. My main problem at the moment is server load (my web host for BritBlog shut me down last week for four hours), so what ever I do it needs to have very little impact on the server. That is until I can get a nice dedicated host

Anyway, here are the stats for the last few weeks:

Mon 21st to Sun 27th Feb

1. http://tottyworld.blogspot.com/
2. http://www.lazylaces.com/
3. http://newlinks.blogspot.com/
4. http://nevon.typepad.com/
5. http://seehere.blogspot.com/
6. http://london-underground.blogspot.com/
7. http://becksposhnosh.blogspot.com/
8. http://lazylaces.com/
9. http://standbyyourstatue.blogspot.com/
10. http://ruksak.blogspot.com/

Mon 14th to Sun 20th Feb

1. http://tottyworld.blogspot.com/
2. http://www.lazylaces.com/
3. http://newlinks.blogspot.com/
4. http://nevon.typepad.com/
5. http://ruksak.blogspot.com/
6. http://london-underground.blogspot.com/
7. http://www.tottyworld.blogspot.com/
8. http://www.adrian.warnock.info/
9. http://lazylaces.com/
10. http://christianbrower.blogs.com/

Mon 7th to Sun 13th Feb

1. http://www.lazylaces.com/
2. http://tottyworld.blogspot.com/
3. http://newlinks.blogspot.com/
4. http://nevon.typepad.com/
5. http://ruksak.blogspot.com/
6. http://london-underground.blogspot.com/
7. http://lazylaces.com/
8. http://becksposhnosh.blogspot.com/
9. http://christianbrower.blogs.com/
10. http://www.adrian.warnock.info/

Phew, that was a task I should have scripted…..

Anyway, perhaps no surprises there. It should be pointed out that these blogs are blogs that link to BritBlog with one of the special icons. Not all referrals by these sites were icon requests - some may have been real people visiting BritBlog. Finally, some of these sites are the same blogs, they just omit the ‘www’ part of the URL.

I’ve been having a chat with mmChronic about ways to do this better, but if anyone has anything to add on the subject, please let me know.