Metadata Monday: Year End Data

When I first started the blog, I used to do a little feature called “Metadata Monday.” Periodically, I would present some page view and reader statistics data from my blog. It doesn’t really matter that I was casually misusing the word “metadata,” these were early days in the academic blogging world and we lived by our own rules. 

In the spirit of my old Metadata Monday feature, I thought I would present some of the very basic data from my blog this year. I’ve had 28,895 page views this year from 16,400. This is my best year since 2016 despite only publishing 234 posts (which is my second lowest total per year). September, October, November, and March were my best months with the summer (June, July, and August) being more worst. I also published fewer posts in the summer. Over the course of the year, my posts were 139k words in total (or about 600 words per post) which were more words than last year (134k), but comfortably below my average number of words per year. Some of this is because I did less writing this year in general. 

As per usual, individual posts rarely contribute many views on their own (with my most popular individual post adding only 2% to the total number of page views). In fact, most individual posts saw fewer than 100 individuals views. Only the top two posts averaged more the 1 view per day this year and both enjoyed some circulation on The Social Media (with “Real Pseudoarchaeology” being part of a blog carnival). That said, the top dozen probably reflect the interests of the blog over the last year. They are organized by page views per day.

1. On Holly. 2. Real Pseudoarchaeology. 3. The Pope on Reading Literature. 4. Teaching as Activism during a Campus Crisis . 5. Two for Tuesday from Hesperia.6. Another ASOR Abstract: Roman Lamps from Northwest Cyprus. 7. More on Grand Forks 150th. 8. Summer Reading List (2024). 9. 20 Years at an Ancient Harbor on Cyprus. 10. Music Monday: Ornette Coleman. 11. Pseudoarchaeology Panel Proposal for ASOR. 12. PKAP2: The Introduction.