Year end statistics for this site

January 11, 2015 • 4:15 pm

WordPress has sent me the summary statistics for this year’s postings, and I thought I’d share some of them.  First, the total views:

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That “no conflict” post, sadly, does not reflect anything good I wrote; it’s this post that shows this sign:

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As always, the most popular posts are those picked up by reddit, and involve stuff like leaf beetles, criticism of Mother Teresa, but never anything thoughtful I’ve written! So it goes.

Im not sure what the “posting pattern” graph below means, except there are twelve categories, probably denoting twelve months. Perhaps some reader can explain. But look at the “longest streak”!

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Here are the posts that got the most views, two of which appeared in previous years. For some reason Mother Tersa continues to get lots of views, but it’s merely a notice that two French Canadians published a critique of her. The gynandromorph cardinal, which I posted about before it went viral just a few weeks ago, continues to puzzle me—why so popular?

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Note that post #2, “Sans commentaires,” was put up by Matthew Cobb.

I’m proud of having a worldwide readership. That’s reflected in this map showing readers in 234 countries:

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For a better version, here’s the Wordprss map showing readership over the 365 days ending January 11. The only countries with no views were North Korea (though we had two views from there in 2013!) and South Sudan:

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Here are the top 10 countries in terms of views:

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And here are those countries whose inhabitants gave us ten views or fewer over the year:

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Finally, those readers who commented the most. This will come as no surprise to anybody who reads here regularly. Diana and Ben should get some kind of prize for contributions above the call of duty.

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77 thoughts on “Year end statistics for this site”

  1. “Posting pattern” is when you produced posts. Each little square is a day, in each of 12 months. The fact that they’re all green means you published a post on every single day!

  2. Diana and Ben should get some kind of prize for contributions above the call of duty.

    You mean, like, say, a life? Or maybe just a few free sessions of treatment for SIWOTI?

    <sigh />

    b&

    1. Or something to fix our bad postures from sitting in front of screens (desktops, laptops, tablets, phones) too often. 🙂

      1. I just want to know how the heck you managed it! Congratulations! I enjoy both your comments, and Diane G, Ant’s and Merilee’s for that matter, so keep it up!

        I’m impressed NZ is so high on the list, given we only have 4.5 million people here. I’d love to see a php graphic.

        1. Ah, I don’t deserve to be so high. The ranking should be based on word count, not simply number of comments. The majority of mine are “drive by” comments. Others’ (incl. others not on that list) are of much higher quality.

          But thanks to Jerry for hosting such a varied, provocative and interesting bl— website.

          /@

          1. I think that mine are kind of drive-by, as well, often adding fodder to the smart-assedness already posted;-)

          7. My cousin lives in Los Gatos, overlooking it all. I spent 8 years in Palo Alto, 2 in Berkeley, and 1 in SF. We used to laugh at Do you Know the Way to San Jose, because we thought Who’d want to go there. Things have most def changed;-) I rented a whole little bungalow for $130/mo in Palo Alto…Now it’d be more like $130/day…

          8. When driving to Silicon Valley, I left the sunroof open and got a wicked scalp burn on my hair part!

          10. I usually wear sunblock on my hair part or wear a hat & I did neither that time. The sun did seem particularly hot that day though. When I went to NZ many years ago, my nose kept blistering no matter how much sunblock I put on it so I bought a hat. My nose isn’t even that big!! I think the only reason I’m not a wrinkled raisin is I live where the sun rarely shines half the year.

          12. We only have metric night in Canada. Also metric gravity and due to over consumption we’ve had to cut back on our gravity and turn it off for a couple of hours/day.

          13. You know, we’ve got an awful lot of over-consumptionated Americans here who could really do with some gravity cutbacks…

            …but they’d probably still balk at it, since it seems it’s a metric thing.

            Still, you never know. Soda, of all things, is sold by the two-liter bottle….

            b&

        2. Ah yes, as in moviemaking, opera singing and rugby football, we punch above our weight. I’m impressed you have more readers here than in South Africa or France. Perhaps it’s our #1 ranking in human-ownership by cats….

        1. Those are bad for you if you use them as a chair full time. You’re ok to use it for 20 mins or so.

          I wish I could be suspended i. Water like Luke Skywalker was when he lost his hand.

          13. Oh, I got that part! Sorry I didn’t make it clear. My “guessing” was supposed to refer to any subsequent emoji you’d post, perhaps dealing with “biting” in one way or another.

            I’m too clever for my own good. 😀

          15. Not all the time because you are using your muscles too much. Kind of like how sitting all day in a normal chair uses your hip flexors (without you knowing it). This just uses different ones that aren’t meant to be constantly flexed. It’s like with anything….

      3. Diane, that would be Kelly Starrett’s mobilitywod.com, or either of his books “Becoming a Supple Leopard” and “Ready to Run”. It’s a beautiful thing.

    2. It doesn’t follow that frequent posting indicates an impoverished life. McPherson and Goren could certainly lead enriched, productive lives and still post at high rates.

    3. Unfortunately the WP stats can’t measure the quality of comments – I would rank the top five as very high, always, even the drive-bys.

      I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read through the comments and thought “Where’s Ben? He’ll have something smart to say on this one.” But shortly thereafter I’ll see “I’m late to the party on this one, but …” or something similar.

      If there’s another website (or even a blog!) where the commenters add so much insight and cheer to the posts, it’s not among the sites I frequent.

  3. It seems these stats fail to consider those who follow you and read ALL your posts on newsreaders. I have your site on my Feedly. So please consider you have MORE than 10 views from this admirer of yours in Brazil. Cheers.

  4. I don’t even understand what Carlos just said but then, that happens when you get to my age.

    I just hope all of these people have converted or plan to some day.

  6. The number of views is very encouraging: 10+ million a year. That is a lot of people, since I suspect someone who may only comment two to three times a day (~ 500 – 1000 times a year) may still visit the site ~ 1 – 5 times a day, which is similar to someone who may comment as much as Ben or Diana. If there is about a pool of about 500 regular commenters that would be about 10^5 views from ‘regulars’, or about 1% of the total views. The rest, 99%, goes to educating the public.

  7. I noticed that you only had one hit from Montserrat. I guess that Gordon (Kairosfocus) Mullings is not a big fan.

  8. Damned little chance of me driving up your viewing rate from DPRK – it looks as if that prospect has finally shut down. Likewise South Sudan, unless it rapidly develops a coastline. And a 700m bathymetry contour.
    (Actually, since our base station passes through Norway, Netherlands and Aberdeen, it’s any guess where I normally appear from. I do routinely find myself being served pages in Cloggy though.

  9. It would be interesting to have a breakdown of number of views per population of a country. The U.S. would no doubt drop down in the rankings and India would be off the radar, while on the other hand Canada, Britain and the Nordic nations would put up a strong showing…

    1. Ok, if anyone is interested I did some numbers. Index is (views/population)*100, rounded, just to make the comparison easy to see.

      Well done New Zealand and Canada.

      Country Index
      ————————-
      New Zealand 2.56
      Canada 2.53
      UK 1.99
      USA 1.80
      Australia 1.77
      Sweden 1.22
      Netherlands 0.77
      Germany 0.27
      France 0.16
      India 0.01

      (I hope the formatting survives)

          1. OT:

            Anyone seen Tim’s Vermeer? Fascinating movie by Penn Gilette about a theory that Vermeer used mirrors (but not smoke) to paint his very realistic paintings. The eponymous Tim, an inventor but not a painter, recreates in painstaking detail the conditions under which he believes Vermeer painted and comes up with an amazing copy of his Music Lesson.

            http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/

          2. When you say OT, you mean it. 😉

            I’ve read about that before but not seen a movie of it. Certainly was an interesting hypothesis; tested, and probably proved!

  11. Mother Teresa and the gynandromorphy cardinal — sounds like two figures in a pornographic cartoon in Charlie Hebdo…

  12. The “posting pattern” would show you the days (a pattern) I guess, but you were very prolific and posted all-year-around (with some help, who did a great job, too)

    I can sense a frustration though that content creation isn’t valued as much as curation, at least not in hard numbers (hits, comments et cetera). That is indeed a concern that perhaps drove others into copypasta and clickbait blogging. That’s not good.

    Overall, it looks like great year and you have interesting things in store in this one. I’m looking forward to the Sophisticated Theologian season. Do you keep the name or update it so it matches your recent publication? (Profesor Ceiling Katz you’ve mentioned recently would make for a splendid timeless name as another option). WEIT is fine and established though, I’m not saying you should change anything, I’m just curious. 🙂

  13. I can’t see your full list of countries and number of readers/comments etc… but I dare say I am probably a lone one from Bahrain. I read them all but don’t always comment because I don’t like to show my ignorance in public.

    🙂

  15. I’d just like to point out that I often find myself in obscure regions of the world. Those views from Turkmenistan, for instance, were probably just me.

  16. If it takes a minute on average to write a comment, then 8296/60 = 138.27 hours = 5.76 days! 🙂

  17. Some of the people who were interested in your gynandromorph cardinal were probably hoping for some kind of anti-Catholic slur.

  19. I live in China, Hong Kong. The geographic density map didn’t show many professor cat ceiling fans in my area, however. It sure would be good to know if I have a few a comrade in arms in my country!

  20. Glad to be one of a million Brits that check in. Every day for me, cats, science and rational thinking. What’s not to like?

  21. Wouldn’t it be great of all the readers signed up to WordPress and logged in and made a brief comment, just so we can get a better idea who’s following PCC? Would it be a good idea to have a special ‘stand up and be counted with Jerry’ day?

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