{"id":127,"date":"2005-11-12T22:03:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=127"},"modified":"2006-03-18T19:22:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T08:22:01","slug":"how-geeky-are-you-a-geeky-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/11\/12\/how-geeky-are-you-a-geeky-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"How Geeky Are You? A Geeky Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- UnMarkedDown_2_01132526467--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about what sort of articles I would prefer to write for this blog, and what direction I would like to take it.<\/p>\n<p>A part of that decision has to be, what do my current readers, and my future readers, want to read.<\/p>\n<p>One of the trends I have been noticing is that I seem to get more of a response to the geeky articles than the non-geeky ones.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with that trend, here&#8217;s a geeky analysis of that trend.<\/p>\n<p>In early September, I installed some tracking software to help me better understand which pages are popular.<\/p>\n<p>I have taken that data, discarded the hits from top-40 most-aggressive bots, broken it down by whether the post was categorised as &#8220;Geeky&#8221; and plotted the number of page hits against the date of the initial post.<\/p>\n<p>To quickly read the graph you will need to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geeky articles are indicated by a blue square (how apt!), non-geeky ones by a green circle.<\/li>\n<li>Articles originally posted before the metrics were initially gathered are indicated by a smaller symbol.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It is a logarithmic scale<\/strong>. Each horizontal line represents <strong>ten times<\/strong> as many hits as the line below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/images\/OddThinkingMetrics\/ArticlesHitsByGeekinessNov05.png\" alt=\"Graph\"\/><\/p>\n<p>To really understand the graph, you will also need to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>More recent posts (bigger symbols) haven&#8217;t had as long to gather the &#8220;long tail&#8221; hits.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Older posts (smaller symbols) are under-estimates, because the initial traffic (between posting and early September) has not been counted. Only the &#8220;long tail&#8221; is being counted.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>This only counts articles read on their own page &#8211; i.e. via the permalink. Reading articles as part of the home page or the archives pages doesn&#8217;t give it credit. (I am thinking of making changes to this behaviour.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>I have taken steps to obscure the actual numbers. I don&#8217;t want this to become a pissing-up-against-the-wall contest with other bloggers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applying my standard statistical analysis (inter-ocular impact), it&#8217;s pretty clear  that geeky posts tend to get significantly more hits than non-geeky ones, especially in the long-tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the trends I have been noticing is that I seem to get more of a response to geeky articles than the non-geeky ones. In keeping with that trend, here&#8217;s a geeky analysis of that trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-oddthinking","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}