By Julian Dierkes
Our blog is in its 9th year. We smashed through our 600th post this year. Most notably we were recognized through a Public Outreach Award from the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Mendee defended his PhD. I’d say, we’re going strong!
Blog Readers
Google Analytics is an endless fountain of detailed information, it’s also a potential time sink, so here are some highlights of our readership in the past year:
- just under 15,000 readers generated over 35,000 pageviews
- the top 10 origin countries of readers are
- Mongolia 22.5%
- U.S. 22%
- Canada 8.9%
- UK 5.1%
- Australia 4.1%
- Germany 3.4%
- China 2.5%
- Japan 2.3%
- India 2%
- South Korea 1.8%
- Most-read (500+ page views) posts this year:
- Connor Judge and Sanchir Jargalsaikhan’s guest post on BRI (1,400 views)
- Bulgan’s “How popular is Russian in Mongolia 26 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union?” (2016; 1,360+ readers this year)
- My post together with Boldsaikhan Sambuu “The Beginning of the End of Democracy?” (800 views)
- My very early outlook on the 2020 parliamentary election (530 views)
- Bulgan‘s post about foreign languages remains by the far the most-read post with over 4,300 total pageviews
Outlook
In the past, we have been very active during national elections and these activities have brought significantly more readers than in non-election years. The 2020 parliamentary election promises to be quite interesting, especially in terms of any expressions of voters’ frustration for example by supporting new political movements, but also in terms of the evolution of party structures (will the DP implode? will the MPP actually see a generational turnover?). We are hoping to continue to build on our track record of research-rooted, non-partisan analyses and commentary in this coming year.
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