Secular Perspectives Blog Growth in February

By Gary Berg-Cross

February continued the growth of blog activity on Secular Perspectives. Here are some statistics available to editors of the site.

First a view of this past week shows the jagged path through the week peaking on. The top five blog articles visited are shown below with my January blog of John Dewey getting about as many hits as Edd Doerr’s January blog on Rick Santorum and Opus Dei. Three more recent blogs ranging from the discussions at Rob Boston’s talk to hypocrisy and growth topics round out the week.

A Philosopher for our Times - John Dewey Jan 6, 2012, 2 comments 67 Pageviews Rick Santorum and Opus Dei Jan 16, 2012, 2 comments 61 Pageviews More Discussion Topics following Rob Boston’s Talk... Feb 26, 2012, 1 comment 45 Pageviews Beyond Hypocrisy –True Believers Becoming What The... Feb 25, 2012, 1 comment 40 Pageviews Revisiting the Limits to Growth Ideas Feb 29, 2012 33 Pageviews

Overall February had a bumpy reading pattern with an unprecedented 600+ readers visiting the site to read Edd Doerr’s blog on Rick Santorum and Opus Dei. This readership boosted the site’s numbers to over 7,000 visits this short month. Just four months
ago we had half that number each month. Edd’s blog lead the overall month total with 920 views, almost 3 times that of any other topic. It is interesting to note that some blogs (e.g. on the Vatican and memes) from 2011 still get significant viewing.

A View of Secular Perspective Activities

by Gary Berg-Cross

Viewers and readers of Secular Perspective get to see content, but may have no idea of how busy and growing the blog site is. This was a point made at a recent get together in Rockville. So here are some statistics available to editors of the site.

First a view of this past week shows the jagged path through the week peaking on Satureday browsing. The top five blog articles visited - a recent one on "Complex issues" that had 48 views (6 per day) , while a post almost a year old on Memes still got 34 views.

Most of the visitors come as a result of Google queries and these are from North America although some stories grab attention from Europe. The numbers for the week were:

United Kingdom 13 Canada 11 Russia 10 France 8 India 7 Australia 4 Italy 4 Japan 4 and Germany 3

A snapshop of the day's activity show that recent articles have grabbed some attention. "Poor reasoning" had 22 reads in the last day, while "Religion and the Arab Spring" has had 12 views.

Perhaps the most interesting view is what is called "All Time" shown at the top of the article. This goes back a year to see the most visited blog articles. The winner is one on "Pyschological Harm of Traditional Christian Behavior" with 651 hits. An article on the Flying Spaghetti Monster comes in 2nd at 587 follwed closely by the "Binary Thinking Habit".

As you can see from the trend of use the site has jumped up from modest beginnings in the fall of 2010 and has grown to a steady rate of some 100 hits a day (3ooo+ per month). However with the new year in January, the site has exceeded 4000 hits for the first time