[squeak-dev] The Weekly Squeak - some statistics

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 17:29:50 UTC 2012


On 3 December 2012 17:26, Chris Cunnington
<smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://news.squeak.org/
>
> I've been posting The Weekly Squeak for six months. I never looked at the
> statistics until today. A slow day for The Weekly Squeak is 70 views.
>
> The weirdest thing is the number of views of old posts. I guess people reach
> them by Google? The top ten posts for the last week are:
>
> * = posted in the last month
>
> Mmm...RaspberryPi *
> 136 views
> Help Design The New squeak.org *
> 42 views
> Squeak On Android
> 26 views
> 64-bit image *
> 18 views
> Old Smalltalk Pics From PARC
> 11 views
> JSSqueak -Smalltalk interpreter
> 6 views
> Tangible User Interface for Squeak
> 6 views
>
> Most of the views come from North America and northern Europe. There are
> also views from Korea, Thailand, Japan, Australia, Spain, Columbia, and
> Argentina.
>
> Do robots scan blogs? Do they count as visitors? At any rate, more people
> look at this than I would have suspected. By way of contrast and to address
> the idea that visitors are just robots, The Squeak Oversight Board blog has
> an average daily visitor count of eight views.
>
> We can conclude two things: Squeakers may be low on the ground but all
> around the world; and, the Raspberry Pi is the most viewed post for awhile.
> Everybody likes π.

Love is irrational, after all.

frank

> Chris
>
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