Some stats 14 Aug 201018 Sep 2017 It occurred to me that I don’t do a very good job of tracking the stats of the three incarnations of this blog. So here they are: Posts Hits ET 1 : 411 142,117 ET 2 @ Scienceblogs : 1,272 912,249 ET 3 : 618 tba 2,712 1,054,366 Ho. Ly. Crap. Sure, it’s not up there with PZ Mistletoe’s hegemony over the western world, but >1 million hits? Now if everyone who read a page gave me ten cents… Mind, I had to write over 2500 posts (with around 10% of those being substantive in some way). Administrative Administrative
Administrative A friend gets a trilobite named after him 28 Apr 200818 Sep 2017 … Wilkins turns green with envy. There’s a special sort of immortality for those who work in paleontology which clearly outweighs the total lack of jobs and remuneration: having a species named after you. My friend and accredited geologist and paleontologist has now had a trilobite named after him. Ladies… Read More
Administrative 106 books of pretension meme 26 Apr 2008 Like Lynch, here is “the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users.” So what I’ve read is in italics, what I never finished is struck through: Read More
Administrative Where’s Wilkins? 26 Jun 2007 OK, so while the vandals are playing some weird game on another thread, I suppose I better tell the rest of you what’s happening. 1. I’m applying for a real job, and another postdoc. 2. I have two conference papers to prepare and deliver, and travel to and from (including… Read More
You’ll keep it up until your contract is finished in 2012, and the whippings will continue. Why else do you think I got Grrl to go to Germany?
“if everyone who read a page gave me ten cents…” I would be up 60 cents in that case. Not sure if I would save it or just go mad and blow the lot on a spending spree.
Im torn, between being sensible and just saying what the hell and going on an all out gastritis med. spending spree. I am glad this is just a hypothetical question. It’s a tough call.
So you’re saying that you’ve posted more than twice as much in the 15 months since May 2009 than you did in the 33 months between September 2006 and May 2009. In other words, about four times the posting frequency. My first impulse was to wonder if you’d accidentally included transported blog posts.
And you are right. I need to redo the stats! [Later: Done. I need to work out how many comments at ET3 since the move.]
I’m not sure hits = pageviews. ‘Hits’ can mean objects loaded, which means five images on one page is five hits.
WordPress measures hits by means of the smiley face icon at the bottom of the page, and they’re essentially pageviews, excluding those made by the blog owner while logged in. (Incidentally, in the old days there was a bug that mucked up some of those measurements – I know because I remember reporting it – but that was long before ET moved to WordPress.)
“Now if everyone who read a page gave me ten cents…” well, your tip jar disappeared so you only have yourself to blame on that score.