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Friday, October 15, 2010 - 7:05pmSanction this postReply
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Well, we're in the Top 10 of the all-time, greatest, most wonderful, fascinating and insightful Objectivist websites in the world. Not bad.

Thanks, Luke!

Ed


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Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 1:27amSanction this postReply
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Interesting to see this.

ImportanceOfPhilosophy.com had 4310 in August, which would put it at 18th on that list.

I'm surprised to see that The Atlas Society/TOC is virtually tied with RoR at 8th/9th place. Also interesting to see the new SOLO site significantly higher, though their numbers are supposedly supplied directly, so maybe are higher compared to the sites being ranked by compete which might not be very accurate numbers. I don't think we ever installed Analytics on RoR, but we probably should.

For another comparison, the web site for my relatively very small online game Star Sonata is 10,838, however, I know the core of actual, dedicated members who are part of the community is more in the 1000 range, so all these numbers are including about 10x as many semi-random click-throughs rather than measure actual community sizes, or even measure the amount of people who purposely go to a site because they want to see information they know on it. It seems quite possible to me that what dominates these numbers is the number of incoming links and search engine juice, and perhaps these numbers are practically meaningless.

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Monday, October 18, 2010 - 4:47pmSanction this postReply
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I think Jeff is right.  We looked at some of these statistics before and compared them to statistics we were tracking locally.  They were always a subset.  So numbers directly supplied by the website should be much larger.  Actually, you can compare RoR and SOLO directly using compete.com, and see that they are pretty close.

I also agree that a lot of the traffic is random search engine related traffic, which is interesting in terms of possibly influencing opinions, but doesn't track who's actually reading what.


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