Some Site Statistics. A Weekly Summary From Now On.

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2024,
updated Mar 09, 2024

THIS weekend we've started automating (partly at least) weekly summaries of popular pages. From now on we'll try to do this every weekend for those who are too busy with "real life", e.g. working all day long, coming back home too tired to read all the articles, instead relying on outlines, summaries or "best of".

The reason "best of" deserves quotes or even scare quotes is that just because something is accessed a lot does not mean it's better, more important, more accurate etc. But it would otherwise be hard to do, requiring us researching a lot, going through a week's ~100 pages and deciding which one/set merits more visibility.

The site currently uses a number of domains, including aliases and legacy ones (there are also fakes). There are also subsites and the server is configured to handle/serve them all; it has a lot of news.techrights.org requests - that would typically be people who come from RSS and IRC. techrights.org is the most typical access point, not techrights.com or the old boycottnovell.com.

Here is a list of most accessed pages in the past 7 days. It takes about 5 mins to run for a week's set of log files. This is for techrights.org, i.e. typically for people who do not use our RSS feed. Some people call that "organic".

To keep things free of manipulation we've had known bots or spiders culled from the statistics (they inflate the numbers but provide no meaningful insight):

2521	/n/2024/03/04/The_European_Patent_Office_s_EPO_Illegal_Ban_on_Mass_Communicat.shtml
2087	/about.shtml
1979	/n/2024/03/03/Mozilla_Firefox_is_Back_in_2_Territories_Jeopardising_Its_Statu.shtml
1273	/n/2024/03/02/Yandex_Usage_Has_Surged_Since_the_Invasion_of_Ukraine_Microsoft.shtml
1247	/n/2024/03/03/Now_Only_Has_Adoption_of_Windows_Vista_11_Flatlined_Plateaued_N.shtml
1167	/n/2023/12/19/Brodie_Robertson_is_Wrong_Because_Flatpaks_Snaps_Do_In_Fact_Pro.shtml
1120	/n/2024/03/06/7_000_spam_messages_Debian_Day_Volunteer_Suicide.shtml
900	/n/2024/03/03/Italy_visa_residence_permit_Albanian_Outreachy_Wikimedia_Debian.shtml
894	/n/2024/03/04/europe_s_adoption_of_gnu_linux_by_country_now_about_6.shtml
830	/n/2024/03/05/In_defence_of_Albanian_women_Outreachy_Debian_favoritism_scanda.shtml

And for non-bots in news.techrights.org, i.e. mostly people from RSS and IRC:

638	/n/2024/03/06/7_000_spam_messages_Debian_Day_Volunteer_Suicide.shtml
618	/n/2024/03/03/Italy_visa_residence_permit_Albanian_Outreachy_Wikimedia_Debian.shtml
608	/n/2024/03/03/Now_Only_Has_Adoption_of_Windows_Vista_11_Flatlined_Plateaued_N.shtml
581	/n/2024/03/05/In_defence_of_Albanian_women_Outreachy_Debian_favoritism_scanda.shtml
520	/n/2024/03/05/Evidence_Outreachy_Debian_favoritism_women_who_missed_out.shtml
476	/n/2024/03/07/Stephen_Milne_consent_Debian_Code_of_Conduct_invalid.shtml
463	/n/2024/03/01/Understanding_Cardinal_George_Pell_prosecution_Institutional_ab.shtml
462	/n/2024/03/07/Ben_Bell_Mark_Taylor_Sirius_Open_Source_DebConf_sponsorhip_insi.shtml
457	/n/2024/03/03/Gemini_at_3_800.shtml
428	/n/2024/03/05/From_91_to_33_or_Less_How_Microsoft_Has_Lost_Australia.shtml

Yes, there is some duplication, like this page having been accessed 618 times via news.techrights.org and 900 times via techrights.org, i.e. over 1,500 times not including bots/spiders.

We've managed to find a pace wherein we can produce about a dozen new ones per day and sometimes close to 100 per week. Greater readership level motivates higher productivity. In Gemini we serve about 5,000+ pages per day and most are not bots. Gemini's future is bright. █