TheNextWeb.org: Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Written on 30th July 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
On May 27, 2008 I reported here that we had received 32,000 unique visitors in the last 30 days. Since then we have written another 266 posts which brings our total to 824. Those posts are attracting more visitors every day. In the last 30 days we attracted 95,000 unique visitors!
Today we also passed another milestone: 4000 feed subscribers!
Check out that graph. How many subscribers will we have in 12 months? If you haven’t subscribed yet you can do that now by clicking here.
The most popular search terms:
1: nasza klasa
2: nico nico douga
3: the next web
4: leah culver
5: nasza-klasa
6: photofree
7: snagfilm
Our top 3 most viewed posts. Not sure if that is the same as ‘popular’ but it is the only thing I can find easily:
1: Reality in Sweden: download a HD DVD in two seconds
2: 3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia
3: Nasza-klasa: Polish example of the copy-cat approach
We are getting a lot of views from StumbleUpOn and news.ycombinator.com lately.
I would have loved to include more detailed graphs about our stats but I guess this one just sums it all up better than any other graph I can think of:
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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Jul 30, 2008
Oh, wondering about the title? Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....statistics
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By Geoffrey McCaleb on Jul 30, 2008
It’s not often I hear a good Mark Twain quote in the morning. Well done on the traffic!
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Glad you liked it! But the quote is probably from Benjamin Disraeli not Mark Twain. Here is the complete quote:
“Figures often beguile me,” Twain wrote, “particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’”
More information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....statistics
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By Rory on Jul 30, 2008
Nice one. I’m a fan. Keep it up!
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By Wouter on Jul 30, 2008
Keep up the good work guys!
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