Every December 31, WordPress sends me a summary of the year’s statistics for this site, which I’ll include here for your information.
The Mother Teresa post continues to be the most popular I’ve ever posted (over 300,000 views on one day) a bit depressing since it’s was simply my summary of someone else’s paper that critical of Mother Teresa. It was originally posted here on March 5, but got all the views on July 8, when someone put it on reddit. Nevertheless, Catholics continue to find me and beleaguer me with both private emails and angry posts (which I delete) decrying me for besmirching the nun’s reputation.
Visits:
Worldwide readership:
I have replaced their yearly summary of country views with the one on my dashboard, which is more informative. For obvious reasons the greatest readership is in Anglophone countries; but except for three countries in central Africa, we have them all.
I’m particularly curious about the two views from North Korea, where there is no international internet access. It must be Kim Jong Un—though I’ve published nothing on basketball.
Here, from my own states, are the countries from which we got fewer than 10 views. LOL: we got eight from Vatican City!
And, finally, no surprise here:
Finally, a stat from today’s Amazon that pleases me immensely, especially since my book is four years older than Meyer’s ID screed. Suck it up, Discovery Institute:
“Bl*g?” What is this “bl*g”?
I wonder if those North Korea views could be false positives in some way.
Could be. Dennis Rodman looking at kitteh posts, perhaps?
If NK drops to zero in 2014, then maybe it was his uncle who visited us twice in ’13.
Ha! Good one!
+1
Diana clearly has way too much time on her hands! 😉
/@
Ha ha! I learned so much about free will in those discussions. I hadn’t fully formed my ideas until I participated in them. I guess I participated a lot. 🙂
I barely manage to keep up with reading everything let alone commenting over 5000 times. Are you really a committee?
I’m just always connected & either in front of a computer or phone.
Congratulations are in order then, Diana.
I’m surprised you edged out Ben! 🙂
Thanks for your well-considered comments on the serious issues and the very fun comments on the lighter issues.
I’ve learned a lot from all the other great readers/commenters here, including the Fabulous Five, listed above. And as for the Fanciful Faithfuls (the believers), I’ve reminded how mentally afflicted they really are.
Agreed. Keeping the mind sharp includes reading popular commenter remarks on WEIT. Part of daily education and perspective…everyone needs perspective.
I probably had so many comments because at least half of them are “oops sub” or “please ignore (insert grammar mistake”.
Indeed, simply subscribing to every thread in the past year would have been enough to make it into the top five commenters.
You’ve exposed my trick!
LMAO!
Hahaha…. so is that what all the +1s really mean?
+1 😀
Well then, let me correct my own grammar …. “I’m reminded”, not what I typed. 😛
Diana, you should tell me how you manage that! I don’t think I have managed that number on all the blogs I follow combined!
Happy new year
And congratulations Prof Ceiling Cat
It’s all the time I have on my hands. 😀
That’s really a lot of time.
And all 5 top commenters are ‘top’ commenters — meaning intelligent, thoughtful favorites. Not a troll amongst them! 😉
From you, Sastra, that’s a real compliment!
/@
Thanks Sastra!
Trolls don’t have much of a survival record on WEIT. Which is one of the reasons we enjoy it so much.
Whoa, is there any way to bronze this?
What Ant said!
If it were quality, not quantity, Sastra would have most of us lapped several times.
+1
(not to disparage the Famous Five in any way)
+2.
b&
Greetings from Curaçao! I read your blog everyday. 🙂
Two from North Korea? Well now we know why Kim Jong Un’s uncle was executed. I wonder which article he read.
I was going to ask about that! Dr.C, are you able to see if the North Korean readership has receded to 1?
The year’s views don’t go down when a viewer is killed! We’ll see what happens next year.
Oh yes, of course. Are there stats on monthly viewership? It’s just a curiousity, of course. Can’t accurately/realistically correlate this sort of situation.
Why does the Falkland Islands have Malvinas in brackets?
Virginia doesn’t have CSA in brackets.
Just wondered.
I’m surprised that Vatican City only shows up with eight views. I would think they’d pay more attention to the competition.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they do, but they probably get the WEIT articles in print.
On parchment, written with quills.
The margins are beautiful, however.
No crunchy frog ( for those of us who live for hunting and acting)?
“I’m particularly curious about the two views from North Korea”.
It must be b/c they were gathering evidence for the DPRNK denouncement of Jerry Coyne. 🙂
Is this some Onion sort of site, or did I just place myself high on an NSA surveillance list?
Apparently. 😉
I got it through Boing Boing.
A denunciation generator, awesome!
Concats!
But – where is Antarctic? A whole continent is missing on WP’s map.
*What has penguins against cats!?*
Yes – and why’s Svalbard shown as white? Last time I looked, it belonged to Norway.
Don’t the Russians still operate a coal mine there and claim partial sovereignty?
in which case it still oughta not be white…
Congrats Jerry and WEIT faithful. Here’s to wishing everyone a great 2014.
Something’s not quite kosher with that phrasing.
Pray tell.
Most of us here view faith as something best abandoned.
I was sharing in on some religiously inspired language humor, lol. Of course faith is best left not practiced. Belief in the absence of evidence is not a virtue, any thinking person should see that.
Sorry… I missed that your tongue was in your cheek. A hazard on The Internet!
Abandon All Faith, Ye Who Enter Here…
Mwahahahaha!
Amen to that!
I’m merely a reader here but I ‘do it’ daily; couldn’t do without it. I’m endlessly amazed by the expertise and ready intelligence so freely on tap. Thanks to everybody and a happy new year to all.
“we got eight from Vatican City”
Interest in the calendar?
lol
I’m surprised there weren’t more views from the Vatican, given the popularity of the slam on Mother Teresa.
Sometimes people in the religion profession can be more sympathetic and welcoming to atheists and atheism than one might expect. This seems to be because:
1.) As people who are highly interested in the truth and details of a topic, it can be quite wearying, annoying, and or dismaying to keep encountering fellow believers who show little to no interest in the same thing, all while assuming a mantel of deep piety. Their Catholic faith is the most important thing in their life — but they’re not really sure about the specifics and don’t care. Borrring.
Atheists are a refreshing change. We disagree, sure — but at least we take the topic seriously. We listen to them carefully and respond on point as well as we can. There’s something much more honest about arguing against the existence of God as a hypothesis than simply accepting it as a moral obligation — with only a token consideration of the pros and cons. Some religious professionals respect it (and want an audience which also does.)
2.) I suspect that deep study of theology and religious scholarship often leads to atheism. So closet atheists — or folks who cloak atheism in deliberately ambiguous spiritual language — might get a vicarious thrill from seeing some plain speaking for a change.
Of course, many religious people who hang out in atheist forums insist they only do so to strengthen their faith, as our arguments are so cheap, shallow, and laughable — but I shan’t dignify this rationale with a number (well okay, yes I will … it’s #3.)
Hence, The Clergy Project.
I got a copy of WEIT for Christmas and gave a copy of WEIT (not the same copy) to my brother for his birthday two days later. I also bought my brother a copy of The Demon Haunted World for Christmas and my dad bought me the same book for my birthday two days later. Crazy stuff.
Sounds as if I’d like the Taylors!
And from Kenya, the cradle of mankind we send greetings and wish you and all your readers a prosperous 2014 and years to come
Ah… the koala’s a red herring!
/@
Happy New Year to you too! Best.
Ah. Unfortunately since all of them are land-locked, and I’m assigned to a deepwater rig, I don’t think I’ll be able to help there.
I suspect I’ve hauled up the stats for Benin though.
WOW! Nine million views! That’s brilliant! May I take this opportunity to thank Jerry, Matthew, and all the commenters who make this website such a joy to read, for putting in the time and effort to make it happen. I love you guys. Happy New Year!
BTW whatever views you got from Vanuatu were probably me! The connection was terrible or there would have been more.
Heartily seconded!
I was surprised to read in Andrew Sullivan’s round up of his top posts of the year that his best of 2013 got 275,000 views, less than Jerry’s 300,000! I was astonished that such a popular site, with not infrequent national media attention, would be bested by Jerry. This may say more about the fickle nature of viral popularity than anything else, however. Both Jerry and I suspect that Andrew’s daily views average exceeds WEIT’s.
G.C. Mayer (I’ve never before commented under Ceiling Cat’s ID except when I have authored the post, but I’m in the middle of writing a longish post, and I didn’t want to cycle twice through log out/log in, hence the fuller signature here at the end of the comment.)
Likely this is because Sullivan doesn’t allow comments.
The single viewer from Montserrat must have been Kairosfocus aka Gordon E. Mullings aka GEM of TKI who posted at Uncommondescent on your piece on the infamous “God quote” at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Congratulations to all 😉
especially Diana. I would be higher had I the internet (internerd is what I wanted to type) at home…
2,010 posts for the year amazes me. I’d never thought to multiply out the average posts/day to a yearly sum. I know JAC didn’t produce every one of them, but certainly most–how prodigious!
Also, sorta explains where all my time goes…
WOW! Nine million views! That’s brilliant! May I take this opportunity to thank Jerry, Matthew, and all the commenters who make this website such a joy to read, for putting in the time and effort to make it happen.