A little quiz for our resident data geeks.
Anyone want to take a guess at the blog stats for the new blog since it began on May 22? (36 days)
How many blog entries?
How many comments?
And for extra credit: how does this compare with the debut of the old blog in Jan 2004?
We’ll post the answers sometime Wed. evening.
We figured a little navel-gazing and number crunching might be relaxing after a very event-filled week or two in the Anglican blogosphere 😉
I’ll break the ice, guessing about 400 and 5000.
You may have had as many or more entries to start the old sight, but a lot of people found this one quickly that did not know to look for the other one so early in the process. Also we have learned a lot of truth that we did not know then. So, a lot more comments now than then – at least, a lot more commentERS than then.
Thanks for this ministry!
As of about 2:30, I make it 658 articles, 7,558 comments.
I’m guessing this is more activity than the first incarnation of the blog at its inception, just because a good chunk of old T19 readers moved over here en masse. But that’s just a guess.
Oh, and the most-commented-on article is still ‘A Seattle Episcopal Priest says: “I am both Muslim and Christian”,’ with 138 comments.
Ross is pretty darn close. (He figured out how to use the pages to calculate the number of comments and posts. well done!)
Official answers posted in a few minutes. (Or calculations will be slightly less as we stopped counting as of midnight last night)
Actually, all I did was copy the HTML source of all the “monthly archive” pages — about seven in total — into one file, and write a few lines of perl to parse through it and count articles and comments. There’s probably a way to do it through the web interface, but I thought it would be more bother to look for that than to do it my way 🙂
Nice job Ross. Now we know who to turn to if we ever need additional tech support!