2007 Kiwiblog Stats
January 7th, 2008 at 10:34 am by David FarrarI’ve had to wait a few days to get the 2007 stats before my ISP complains traffic is so heavy they had to change the stats package from daily to weekly updates!
Anyway in 2007, Kiwiblog had the following:
Page Views: 9,222,545
Unique Visits: 2,697,578
Downloaded Data: 853 GB
Posts Made: 2,962
Comments Left: 70,247
While this is small fry compared to some of the US blogs (or global tech blogs), it actually is pretty high for our population. In the UK the most visited bloggers are Guido Fawkes and Iain Dale. Guido blogs here that he had 4,273,096 page views in 2007 and Iain Dale had 4,554,000 page views. They did get more unique visits but still not bad considering the UK population is around 15 times larger than NZ.
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January 7th, 2008 at 10:40 am
impressive dpf. well done. I guess it is not people wanting to read the quality comment threads though.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am
All very good.
But Dave’s gone a little quiet on Glorbell Worming.
That usually indicates a new macrobiotic girlfriend who has to be appeased…….for a while.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am
“Dave’s gone a little quiet on Glorbell Worming”
Probably because recent evidence makes global warming denial about as credible as UFO abduction.
Difficult to argue away all that missing ice eh?
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 11:34 am
These poor misguided souls…
“Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity’s real and pressing problems.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=164002
There seems to be a geneticist, a lot of atmospheric/climatologist types but no gardeners.
Have they no shame?
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
““Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring”
So you now admit it is occuring then?
Anyway I don’t want more demerits for going off topic.
Nice work on being to blog again David!
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Sure …about .75 C per century as we speak.
To help with your understanding of natural cycles….
From the dreaded Fox News.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312490,00.html
The “A” in “AGW” will soon be gone….just as “Glorbell Worming” morphed into “Climate Change”.
Love the consensus.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Tina – your gullible
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05_2rH-qepk – enjoy
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
And Jimmy…..you are adolescent and stupid…..no?
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
James, I liked the “we don’t need to listen to nature, nature needs to listen to us” line, sums up the logic used by those on both extremes.
And yes Tina is gullible when it comes to AGW, she pushes almost anything from anyone that supports her ideologically based position.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Well done DPF, probably too well done, I’m not getting nearly as much work done around here as I should be.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
C’mon Andy….
Tell me there’s still a “consensus”.
One so rarely sees the “con” word these days from the left.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
As compared to the UK sites, we are talking more page views but fewer unique visits?
I’m assuming a unique visit is something like a visit from a single machine on a single day (or some other time period – maybe an hour).
So people visiting your blog either read more of it (a good sign, means that they found it interesting and looked at some other pages too), or hit the refresh key a lot so they can read the same page over and over again (meaning that you are visited by a lot of people who have nothing better to do with their time than to read the comments – myself included presumably).
I’m putting my money on the latter – too many comment tragics out there.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Wonder what % of comments are down to the likes of Chronic Sonic and Sleep the creep etc?
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
OK Tina, amongst people who base their opinion of AGW on the science rather than ideology there is a consensus that increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere is bringing about a warmer Earth.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
FFS Tina, what can’t you understand.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Anyway – George Bush shares your ideology. I thought you would want to see him on youtube and idolise him even more.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Hells eels what an audience . I was just wondering if Sir David F would consider wiping the slate clean regarding the demerit scoreboard .You know new year , new start and all that.Put the past behind us and move on in the right direction and I promise I will wear a halo on my head when I type in the future.
Our politicians don’t get banned if they punch someone’s lights out . Just a thought, as it always pays to be a tough minded optimist ?
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
D4J – Two days ago you said that you had given up posting on kiwiblog.
Attention seeking were you?
I said to my mate, you watch, D4J lies and will be back.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
“Wonder what % of comments are down to the likes of Chronic Sonic and Sleep the creep etc?”
Just don’t blame anyone who calls you ‘free stinker’
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Yawn, yawn, yawn , boring, yawn, yawn .
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Don’t despair Andy….look how far you’ve come in a few short months.
“Scientific consensus” now hardly passes your lips…..
The lists of well credentialled AGW scientific skeptics are difficult to ignore I guess.
Tho I, for one, think the unecessary international tourist industry should be brought to heel by carbon taxes or edict……less of them on my rivers the better.
Remember, when you are backing your opinion and go long glorbell worming with money out in the market place be sure to tell me….then I’ll know you’re not just political hot air
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Your words not mine d4j
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Tina, my position on AGW has been constant for 2 years, if anything I’m tending towards the view that it is potentially a greater problem than I have accepted in the past.
Though I’m happy to point out that few denialists are at the cutting edge of climate research, and that most are either retired or from other disciplines, I don’t usually use the “consensus” argument, as you denialists like to point out, in science having the numbers in themselves doesn’t make one right. It’s getting the science right that counts, something the denialists still haven’t managed.
I haven’t played the markets for 20 years Tina and accepting AGW – or not – is no reason to start, the vast majority of people on both sides of the debate don’t see their position as a reason for making major investment decisions.
I’m farming in NZ, as Gareth at Hot Topic notes:
Vote:“NZ is likely to be a good place to be, at least in the next 20–30 years, because it is expected to warm up more slowly than most of the rest of the world. Our agriculture may get a boost from the extra warmth.”
January 7th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Yippee! More agriculture! Oooooh can’t wait for that.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
The news is good Andy……the Indian poor rather than craving better bicycles actually have other dreams.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2235975,00.html
Make an AGW choke on his locally refined tofu wouldn’t it?
I reckon you in-country Kiwi residents should take up the white man’s burden and progressively take cars off the road to counter the carbon produced by these oppressed 3rd World dreamers.
A fitting Kiwi forelock tug for the Hulun era?
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
“A fitting Kiwi forelock tug for the Hulun era?”
fantastic line Tina.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
As usual Tina you’re assuming I’m interested in the politics of AGW, I’m not, if the people of India are going to continue to improve their standard of living then better and safer transport will be part of that.
A more relevent concern is where is the increase in fuel going to come from? _No-one_ is predicting the increases in global oil production that would be neccessary if even just two billion Indians and Chinese were to achieve the per capita levels of oil consumption we have in the West.
So some form of electrification of the transport network just about everywhere combined with huge increases in electric power generation (nuclear? solar? geothermal?) looks essential over the next few decades for LDC’s modernisation to continue.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Andy’s an innocent ?
AGW is merely the latest socialist attack on market capitalism Andy.
The comrades can hardly believe their luck
But you knew that.
And I want to see NZ offsetting those Indian $1300 car emissions….how about a permanent odd / even number plate driving bans in NZ.
I mean there’s no chance Hulun isn’t really serious about all the AGW bullshit….is there?
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
That’s right Tina, it’s all a GLWC, all those scientists, starting with Svante Arrhenius who proposed the theory of the greenhouse effect 112 years ago and who calculated how increasing GH gas concentrations could increase the strength of the GH effect are in on this great conspiracy.
You’re getting a little flakey Tina.
Vote:January 7th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Apparently your 112 yo science is a worry Andy.
Lots of CO2 input here….must be a big oil site…..
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/subject/c/co2climatehistory.jsp
Vote:January 8th, 2008 at 12:04 am
The Idso’s are doing their best to ignore thermal inertia Tina, you’ve probably seen this graph before (at least I’m sure I’ve linked to it before, perhaps you didn’t view it)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png
Are there any particular points that the Idso’s make that you don’t understand why they’re wrong or irrelevent?
Vote:January 8th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Nite Tina, past my bed time.
Vote:January 8th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Scientists may disagree.
But the best thing is ….
There’s a consensus.
Vote:January 8th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Great stats David, Congratulations, me thinks that the current year is going to be Blog heaven. Bring it on!!!
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