Re: Surprising statistics

"JSH" <jstevh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Apr 29, 7:59 am, Joel Davison <jo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Wouldn't you have to say though that the bottom line of all this
>> "seeking of attention" is nothing more than a symptom of your
>> Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
>>
>> I know, by me responding with this post, I'm just feeding your
disorder,
>> but my main concern here is to ****ne some light on what's really going
>> on with this new-found interest in statistics of yours, and to set the
>> facts straight for those that might not be aware of your disorder.
>
> There is no new interest in statistics.  I've been monitoring them for
> months; years in some areas.
>
> The issue here is the bizarrely high rankings given to webpages of
> mine where statistics show little to no activity.
>
> Like I just did a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
> proof".  My blog page with my definition of mathematical proof came up
> second.  It shows as having received 119 pagevies since January 1st of
> this year according to Google Analytics.
>
> And then I did a search on: Superman plot idea
>
> I put it that way to emphasize that you don't use quotes.  That came
> up number one in Google, though at least it doesn't come up at all in
> Yahoo!
>
> But do a search on: class viewer
>
> And I get number one in Google and number two in Yahoo! for my open
> source project called by that name.
>
> Its statistics have been available for years on SourceForge.
>
> To make it clear that I'm puzzled by the high rankings and not the
> number of hits, I'll point out that a couple of years ago when I first
> started puzzling over this odd situation, I actually looked directly
> at hits coming to my page for my open source project as SourceForge
> allows project administrators to do that, and the hit count was right
> in line with the re****ted statistics.
>
> So yes, it's bugging me.  Why in the hell do pages of mine rank so
> highly when the hit counts and linkages to those pages indicate very
> few people are reading them?
>
> For those wondering if there was a bump from these postings, I just
> looked and didn't see any.
>
> Oh, here's a tidbit from the statistics though: crank.net has a page
> ripping on me--a pure hate page slamming me as a crank and crackpot--
> which links back to my math blog.  Google Analytics says that it
> provides 2.55% of my blog hits.  Just in case you were wondering...
>
> More trivia, the keyword that provides 3% of my blog hits according to
> the same source is "fermat".
>
> The top keyword is "mymath" providing 45.63%.  I have 1 hit each over
> the last month for the following keywords:
>
> rsa examples
> partial difference equation
> prime distribution
> arguing math
> fake math
> goldbach news
> goldbach conjecture
>
> According to Google Analytics my math blog was visited over the last
> month by people from 40 countries, of which Russia and China are
> conspicuously absent.

now that is strange as most of  countries do not have a high density of 
comuputers as the USA.

What were the smaller countries? or did they truncate the list?

Perhaps they are counting web crawlers, web spiders as well?
google has a mess of them out all the time.


>
> The United Kingdom provided 450 visits, making it the most visiting,
> while my own country the United States came in second with 377 visits,
> over the last month.  Since January 1st of this year it has been
> visited by people from 69 countries.  With 1,858 visits from the UK
> and coming in second the US with 1,827 visits.
>
> Hey, guess the Brits are more interested than Yanks in my math.
>
>
> James Harris