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date: 2012/07/02 22:17
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slug: the-future-of-pyqt-by-example
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title: The Future of PyQt by Example
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Three years ago, I started a series of long posts called "PyQt by Example". It reached five posts
before I abandoned for a series of reasons that don't matter anymore. That series is coming back
starting next week, rewritten, improved and extended.

It will do so in a new site, and the "old" posts will be retired to an archive page. Why? Well,
the technologies used in some of them are obsolete or don't quite work nowadays. So, the new
versions will be the preferred ones.

And while I am not promising anything, I have enough written to make this something quite longer,
more nicely layouted, more interesting and make it cover more ground. BUT, while doing some
checks on the traffic statistics for the old posts, some things popped out.

This was very popular
    About 60% of my site's traffic goes to those five posts. Out of about 1200 posts over
    12 years, **60%** of the viewers go to the **0.4%** of the pages. That is a lot.

It's a long tail
    The traffic has not decreased in three years. If anything, it has *increased*

.. figure:: https://p.twimg.com/Aw0MHhoCAAAXmro.png:large
   :width: 80%

   A long and *tall* tail.

So, all this means there is a desire for PyQt documentation that is not satisfied. I am not
surprised: PyQt is great, and the recommended book is not free, so there is bound to be a lot
of demand.

And, here's the not-so-rosy bit: I had unobtrusive, relevant, out-of-the-way-but-visible ads
in those pages for more than two years. Of the 70000 unique visitors, not even one clicked on
an ad. Don't worry, I was not expecting to get money out of them (although I would love to 
some day collect a $100 check instead of having google hold my money for me ad eternum).

But really? Not even *one* ad click? In more than two years, thousands of people? I have to
wonder if I just attract cheap people ;-)