Blog Stats and Such
Posted by Nicole Sharp on 31 March 2006 at 16:09On a whim last night I checked out my Case blog stats and was stunned. Now, I know that I just started posting again here in March, and I know that some of the EECS classes are using the blog system for data mining, but a jump from 553 to 1369 unique visitors still seems pretty extreme. Are other bloggers at Case seeing spikes like this? Or, perhaps more importantly, will it last? ;)
Taking a look at the search terms like I have in the past suggests that a lot of it may have to do with the the vote of no-confidence and Hundert's resignation. Although there have been 22 searches for "nicole sharp" and one for "nicole sharp case" (i.e. 7.5% of the keyphrase searches that turned this blog up), 33.2% of the keyphrase searches had something to do with a combination of the following: President Hundert, the vote of no-confidence, Hundert's resignation, and Lawrence Krauss. (Watch my stats continue to rise as I use these words!)
Other popular general topics include:
- Graduate school (10.2%)
- Space and the Space Shuttle (6.3%)
- SOURCE in general (2.4%)
- MIT (2.4%)
That last one continues to amuse me to no end. Googling for "mit nerds" brings up one of my entries as the second result. Because people on the Internet don't read very closely, I've actually gotten e-mails from people asking how much I like studying at MIT. This would be part of why I have that "about" link sitting at the top of the page. I keep meaning to write an entry purely about who I am so that maybe I'll stop getting e-mails from people asking about MIT and whether I can pass their idea about how to fix the space shuttle on to NASA. I'm an undergraduate, people!
Such interesting things happen when one has a blog...
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Brian Gray said
On 31 March 2006 at 18:25My unique visitors and average visits per day doubled this month as well.
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Brian Beck said
On 31 March 2006 at 19:23Same here, I wonder if it has something to do with start.case.edu?
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Nicole Sharp said
On 04 April 2006 at 18:41@Jeremy:
Ironically enough, I will be sending a report to NASA this week, but it has nothing to do with the shuttle. Obviously, I'll pass on your request anyway ;-)
@Brian (both of you!)
Interesting that we're all seeing this. I don't know if it could be traced to start.case.edu because I think that only displays recent updates and I haven't been updating that much. But I wouldn't be surprised if start.case.edu were contributing to this growth.
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Sandy Piderit said
On 16 April 2006 at 07:27Aw, and I thought I had raised my blog traffic all on my own, by posting to some blog carnivals! I even wrote about it in the PS at the bottom of this entry.
Does anyone know what kind of datamining are the EECS classes doing?
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Mom said
On 09 May 2006 at 18:40Did you read/hear about Eileen Collins leaving NASA? I think she will be teaching again perhaps??? As a NASA-geek I assumed you'd know although in the middle of finals who KNOWS anything outside of what you MUST and then maybe not even THAT....
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Nicole Sharp said
On 09 May 2006 at 18:48WHAT?! Eileen Collins is leaving NASA?! This is terrible news, if only for the fact that it means that my former co-worker won't be able to get her autograph for me!
Jeremy Smith said
On 31 March 2006 at 17:53Awesome! Can you tell the engineers to put a hyperdrive in the shuttle? That could get places waaaay faster that way. Thanks!