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 Lazy Manager Theory 18 Nov 2009 Some people have asked me how I did a PhD, and wrote and taught a subject, while I was also manager of a department of graphic artists, receptionists, and animators, and did the annual report and various other publications. The answer is: Lazy Manager Theory The principle is: if you… Read More
Administrative Online, about being online 12 Jul 2008 My paper in TREE is now available as an in-press corrected proof. It is titled “The roles, reasons and restrictions of science blogs”, so thanks to you guys (and Bob O’Hara in particular) for the raw material and opportunities. Read More
Administrative Testing Tweet Embedding 1 Oct 201110 Oct 2011 Using a hint from here: http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905993344827394 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905698241978368 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905579950026752 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119765002872827905 Testing LaTeX embedding: [latex]H= -K\sum^{n}_{i=1} p(i) \log p(i)[/latex] [latex]d(x, y) = \alpha f(X – Y) + \beta f(Y – X) – \theta f(X – Y) \quad \alpha, \beta,\theta \geq 0[/latex] 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.