Some Site Statistics. A Weekly Summary From Now On.
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):
And for non-bots in news.techrights.org, i.e. mostly people from RSS and IRC:
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. █
