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date: 2009/03/03 23:42
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title: Blog readership statistics.
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I am not sure if this is good or bad:

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   <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralsina/3326568151/" title="feedburner by ralsina_2000, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3565/3326568151_261ece6436.jpg" width="500" height="171" alt="feedburner"></a>

On one hand, I have more subscribers than ever, even considering when this blog was in planetkde_ (BTW: maybe I should add my pyqt feed there again? Nah, I don't qualify as "active KDE contributor")

The dip in the last three monts was because I just posted nothing, and now I am posting again, it's doing well.

On the other hand, I am at 50-some subscribers, which is a bit pathetic for a blog that has existed for over 9 years ;-)

On the gripping hand (Larry Niven FTW!) I am having more fun with the blog than I had in quite a while, so I would post even if noone read it.

And in case you are wondering what that peak of over 6000 reach (the average is under 100!) it's this_. That post had over 12000 visitors. My second most popular story had only 3800.

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   <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralsina/3327425826/" title="analytics by ralsina_2000, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3544/3327425826_65145ab766.jpg" width="500" height="70" alt="analytics"></a>

Here's the most popular content in the last 2 years or so, selected from 783 posts (784 with this one) and 47 longer stories:

1. 12228 visitors: `Windows: My eXPerience`_

   So I wanted to see what windows looked like. Don't worry, I feel better now.

2. 3797 visitors: `Making Linux systems that don't suck. Part II`_

   A rant on cron and at. I never imagined this would be number 2.

3. 2968 visitors: `BOP: Ball Oriented programming`_

   I am rather proud of this one: a pyqt-based graphical, animated interpreter for FLIP_, a language based on balls :-)


4. 2888 visitors: `Good News: Linux gives life to old hardware. Bad News: Maybe in some cases it shouldn't.`_

   Silly, yes, but a cool picture :-)

5. 1870 visitors: `PyCells: The Python SpreadSheet redux`_

   My second or third attempt at writing a toy spreadsheet using python. I have been at it for about 5 years, apparently.

   This is popular... even when the code it describes is based on a completely broken library!

6. 1841 visitors: `Squid authentication via POP or IMAP`_

   This was already about 4 years old when I started counting, so I have no idea how many visitors it *really* had. It is a handy script, I still use it sometimes!

7. 1813 visitors: `The Linux Booting Process Unveiled`_ 

   I really expected this one to be much higher. It's even linked from wikipedia! Every day it has 2 or 3 hits. Then again, the first 3 years are not being counted ;-)

8. 1706 visitors: `Queue Management for Qmail`_

   While the tool it introduces is lame nowadays, the ideas are sound, and it explains a real problem.

9. 1548 visitors: `Custom widgets using PyQt`_

   Very obsolete, noone should read that.

10. 1505 visitors: `How to make your own distro in 3 not-so simple steps`_

    Oh, this one. It is **wrong**. It gives bad advice. Yet noone seems to notice ;-) Not my best idea, not my best effort, still get email about it every month or so.

.. _How to make your own distro in 3 not-so simple steps: //ralsina.me/stories/38.html

.. _Custom widgets using PyQt: //ralsina.me/stories/27.html

.. _Queue Management for Qmail: //ralsina.me/stories/8.html

.. _The Linux Booting Process Unveiled: //ralsina.me/stories/23.html

.. _Squid authentication via POP or IMAP: //ralsina.me/stories/6.html

.. _Good News\: Linux gives life to old hardware. Bad News\: Maybe in some cases it shouldn't.: //ralsina.me/weblog/2008/03/11.html

.. _FLIP: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~eriksoe/Flip/language.html

.. _BOP\: Ball Oriented programming: //ralsina.me/weblog/2007/04/27.html

.. _PyCells\: The Python SpreadSheet redux:  //ralsina.me/weblog/2007/05/22.html#BB585

.. _Making Linux systems that don't suck. Part II: //ralsina.me/stories/BBS43.html

.. _windows\: my experience: //ralsina.me/stories/BBS45.html 


.. _this: //ralsina.me/stories/BBS45.html


.. _planetkde: http://planetkde.org