Although several more hours remain in 2014, we got our annual sites stats report:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 460,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 20 days for that many people to see it.
The busiest day of the year was December 13th with 4,350 views. The most popular post that day was Libertarian Party calls for shutting down CIA, criminal prosecutions.
In 2014, there were 1,651 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 14,149 posts.
Longest Streak (of days without zero posts): 65 days 17 March – 20 May
These are the posts that got the most views in 2014:
1. Open Thread for Libertarian National Convention June 27 to 29 1064 comments June 2014
2. Libertarian Party calls for shutting down CIA, criminal prosecutions 120 comments December 2014
3. Palm Beach Libertarians Plan to Defy Ordinance in Order to Feed the Homeless 20 comments November 2014
4. Libertarian Party retains ballot access in 30 states following midterm election; best ever midterm result for LP, best of any alt party in 100 years 26 comments November 2014
5. Arizona Constitution Party Chairman Calls for Revolution 98 comments January 2014
The top referring sites in 2014 were:
facebook.com
reddit.com
twitter.com
en.wikipedia.org
rense.com
Visitors came from 182 nations, with most from the US.
The report claims that the following were the most active commenters:
1 Andy 1478 comments
2 Jill Pyeatt 1390 comments
3 Jed Ziggler 803 comments
4 Robert Capozzi 719 comments
5 George Phillies 551 comments
(Thanks to them and everyone else for writing, commenting and reading, no matter how much or how little you did so, but isn’t there someone the report generators forgot? 🙂 )
The most commented on post in 2014 (and actually in all IPR history to date) was Open Thread for Libertarian National Convention June 27 to 29 (linked above).
“I just look at the photos here. Same as Playboy . . .”
For me, it’s mostly the videos.
Paulie said, “If we did not have the IPR comment community I would not be motivated to keep doing this.”
It is primarily due to comments that IPR is in my mental A-list of websites to visit and use as a valued source for analyzing political issues and events of the day.
If we did not have the IPR comment community I would not be motivated to keep doing this.
I guess I’m just used to the general rule of the internet: Don’t read the comments (especially on YouTube videos).
It works in both directions, i.e. we have a lot of people who only read the articles and not the comments, as well as vice versa. I do try to read both, but am more diligent about reading comments.
I try to read all the articles posted to IPR. I read the comments if it’s about a subject I’m interested in.
Funny thing is, I actually do read Playboy for the articles. There’s way more porn on the internet, so naked chicks is not really enough of an incentive to look at a magazine anymore.
I read about 8% articles, 92% comments.
LOL. A lot of people only read the comments. I’ve been guilty of that myself many times.
Mark – yep, I just look at the photos here. Same as Playboy . . .
What articles?
There are articles???
Who knew?
HNY.
I read articles!
Thanks to everyone for reading and commenting! I know I said that in the article…but people don’t read articles 🙂
Thanks to the entire IPR team and many happy returns for a super-groovy 2015.
Not sure how that happened. Maybe they don’t count the blog admins, but I haven’t been a blog admin since before 2014 started, and Jill and Jed are on the list, so it seems rather odd. Maybe it’s because I was an admin when we signed up for this stat package.
The stats don’t give that option, but out of the top 5 viewed posts, Jill posted #1 (convention open thread). I posted #2 (Libertarian Party calls for shutting down CIA, criminal prosecutions) and #4 (Libertarian Party retains ballot access in 30 states following midterm election; best ever midterm result for LP, best of any alt party in 100 years). Jed posted #3 and #5 (Palm Beach Libertarians Plan to Defy Ordinance in Order to Feed the Homeless; Arizona Constitution Party Chairman Calls for Revolution). Out of the ones I did not post myself, I helped them achieve their status by my numerous comments (on the convention thread) and reposting links elsewhere (LP national facebook for the Palm Beach post). I had nothing much to do with the high viewership of the #5 article about Arizona, as far as I know – that was the rense.com link, IIRC.
How could Paulie not be on this list?
Perhaps a count of articles sorted by posting heroic editor?