Hmmm, those graphs look canned, don't they?
Going directly to "stats," I found the following graph of pageviews over the last 7 days, which seems to plot by the hour. I could find no graph going further back.
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| The date labeling is odd; "6/23/12" seems to correspond to that day's first hour, and "6/24/12" to that day's last hour (for example) [I suspect that "6/24/12" is an error and should read "6/25/12"] |
Ken, thanks for your comment on the earlier incarnation of this presentation: "It would be interesting to see a graph of pageviews per month over the last two years (24 data points). Then we could see how the readership of your blog is growing."
ReplyDeleteAs I indicated in my reply, when I switched from a "last 7 days" to a "last 30 days" view, I discovered that the display in the original post was dynamic (as it should have been, since I captured it by copy-and-paste from the live web page—duh!). I rotated the three options in the sidebar (7 days, 30 days, all time) and did a print-screen of each, which I now show by way of graphic images.
In order to get a new timestamp (closer to the time I captured the three images), I canned the original post and created the new one shown here.
Six and a half hours later (9:12 p.m.), I notice that the total pageviews shown in the sidebar is 1,747, or 72 fewer than at about 2:53 p.m. I guess the corresponding period on June 19 (one week ago) was that much more active?
DeleteI'm figuring that 74 months have passed since May 2006. That's roughly an average of 500 views a month. In the last 30 days you've had 4.340, so there's been considerable growth. But what does the growth pattern look like? If you had data like "since May 2007," "since May 2008," etc., the picture would be pretty clear.
ReplyDeleteKen, I agree, but apparently such data aren't available; that is, the statistics that are compiled for pageviews don't seem to be maintained with adequate temporal distinctions.
DeleteOne listing tells me precisely how many pageviews every post on Moristotle has had (I re-discovered this yesterday), but I don't know—and apparently can't find out—when the pageviews occurred, except to know, of course, that they must have occurred after each item was published.
But I'm still learning how to interrogate the data, and I may yet discover that more distinctions are possible than I now realize.