Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Chris Port Blog #266. Blog Data Analysis November 2010 to May 2011


© Chris Port, 1st June 2011

Overview

Initial predicted viewing figures were pretty much plucked out of thin air. For all the data’s spurious worth, the actual viewing pattern is reasonably consistent with the predicted one (although shallowing out towards the end). Initial analysis suggests that viewing figures have mostly been better than expected for an obscure, wordy academic blog. However, it is still only thriving as a specialist academic site and has not yet achieved sufficient exposure to attain an exponential function in the line curve.

Composers are currently dragging their feet (times are hard, and time is money I suppose) so the workshop element is in ‘development hell’. Taking advantage of this natural hiatus, I’ve started to link up with other public forums and potential funding generators…

Interest has been consistently piqued by Facebook tags and feeds into blog analyses of the Science/Religion ‘debate’ (mainly name-calling as far as I can see). Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris (and, to a lesser extent now, Christopher Hitchens) have all sown barren ground with fertile dragon's teeth here. The complete failure of the UK education system to train people to think, combined with both general ignorance of science and specialist incompetence in philosophy, suggests rich areas for exploitation.

One aspect of Marty Gull’s ‘impossible thesis’ is that the Arts are a natural referee between Science and Faith as we’re the ultimate ‘philosophy-in-action’. It’s a big claim, but the neo-positivists are making some pretty sweeping statements too.

Hopefully the politics will become so polarized that some craven government policy initiative will end up throwing money at ‘the dramatization of philosophy’ just to make the problem go away.

Total views Nov 10 to May 11
Predicted:
7,000
Actual:
9,054

Month
Predicted
Monthly
Views
Actual
Monthly
Views
+
or
-
Predicted
Total
Views
Actual
Total
Views
+
or
-
Predicted
Viewing
Average
Actual
Viewing
Average
+
or
-
Oct 2010
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Nov 2010
200
510
+310
200
510
+310
200
510
+310
Dec 2010
100
137
+37
300
647
+347
150
324
+174
Jan 2011
200
555
+355
500
1,202
+702
167
401
+234
Feb 2011
500
1,260
+760
1,000
2,462
+1,462
250
616
+366
Mar 2011
1,000
1,733
+733
2,000
4,195
+2,195
400
839
+439
Apr 2011
2,000
2,213
+213
4,000
6,408
+2,408
667
1,068
+401
May 2011
3,000
2,646
-354
7,000
9,054
+2,054
1,000
1,288
+288

Month
Predicted
% Total
Actual
% Total
+
or
-
Oct 2010
0%
0%
0%
Nov 2010
2.86%
5.63%
+2.77%
Dec 2010
1.43%
1.51%
+0.08%
Jan 2011
2.86%
6.13%
+3.27%
Feb 2011
7.14%
13.92%
+6.78%
Mar 2011
14.29%
19.14%
+4.85%
Apr 2011
28.57%
24.44%
-4.13%
May 2011
42.86%
29.22%
-13.64%

Monthly Views
(Predicted / Actual) 


Predicted Views Line Graph


Actual Views Line Graph



Viewing countries: 75
(alphabetical order)
1.
Argentina
2.
Armenia
3.
Australia
4.
Austria
5.
Bangladesh
6.
Belgium
7.
Botswana
8.
Brazil
9.
Brunei
10.
Canada
11.
Cayman Islands
12.
China
13.
Colombia
14.
Côte d’Ivoire
15.
Czech Republic
16.
Denmark
17.
Dominican Republic
18.
Ecuador
19.
Egypt
20.
Finland
21.
France
22.
Germany
23.
Guam
24.
Hong Kong
25.
Hungary
26.
India
27.
Indonesia
28.
Iran
29.
Iraq
30.
Ireland
31.
Israel
32.
Italy
33.
Jamaica
34.
Japan
35.
Kenya
36.
Latvia
37.
Luxembourg
38.
Malaysia
39.
Maldives
40.
Malta
41.
Mauritius
42.
Mexico
43.
Namibia
44.
Netherlands
45.
New Zealand
46.
Nigeria
47.
Norway
48.
Pakistan
49.
Panama
50.
Peru
51.
Philippines
52.
Poland
53.
Portugal
54.
Qatar
55.
Russia
56.
Saudi Arabia
57.
Serbia
58.
Singapore
59.
Slovakia
60.
Slovenia
61.
South Africa
62.
South Korea
63.
Spain
64.
Sri Lanka
65.
Sweden
66.
Syria
67.
Taiwan
68.
Thailand
69.
Turkey
70.
Ukraine
71.
United Arab Emirates
72.
United Kingdom
73.
United States
74.
Uruguay
75.
Vietnam

Top 10 Viewing Countries
1.
United Kingdom
2.
United States
3.
Germany
4.
Denmark
5.
France
6.
Hungary
7.
Russia
8.
South Korea
9.
Singapore
10.
China

Most daily views
04/05/11
227 views
23/05/11
173 views
18/04/11
158 views
02/04/11
139 views
06/04/11
133 views

Peak Viewing Times (GMT)
14:00
15:00
16:00
20:00

Most viewed posts
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5.
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8.
9.
10.

Referring URLs
(in descending order)
1.
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3.
4.
5.
6.

Referring Sites
(in descending order)
1.
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3.
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5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Views by Browsers
(in descending order)
Firefox
68%
Internet Explorer
23%
Chrome
2%
Safari
2%
Opera
1%
Mobile
<1%
GranParadiso
<1%
FirePHP
<1%
Imgsizer Safari
<1%
NS8
<1%
(via translate.google.com)
<1%

Views by Operating Systems
(in descending order)
Windows
88%
Other Unix
4%
Macintosh
3%
Linux
1%
iPhone
<1%
iPod
<1%
Android
<1%
iPad
<1%
Blackberry
<1%
Nokia
<1%
Nintendo DSi
<1%

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