{"id":2427,"date":"2009-02-26T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T08:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2009-02-26T19:16:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T08:16:53","slug":"wordpresscom-stats-tells-me-humanity-is-hopeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"WordPress.com Stats tells me humanity is hopeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty lazy about checking my site&#8217;s statistics for a while now. As such, I&#8217;ve found the new feature that automatically shows you the most popular plug-ins for WordPress and installs them automatically if you like them to be very useful. One of these <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/stats\/\">plug-ins<\/a> shows me some basic statistics on how many visitors have stopped by my blog and what they&#8217;re reading right on the Dashboard. Now, I know that my blog will never grow to have much of a readership, but I do like to know at least some people are reading my stuff and I&#8217;m curious about how often people find some of my old stuff and dig them out to read.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, what the stats tell me is pretty depressing. Over the last two days, nearly forty percent of my traffic is to just one page: <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=618\">Sex Cards in The Witcher<\/a>. Now I know sex sells, but this is rather more skewed than I&#8217;d expected. One thing I am glad of is that my review of <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=8\">Irrational Man<\/a> continues to get a steady dribble of readers. It&#8217;s probably one of the best pieces I&#8217;ve ever written and I&#8217;m rather proud of it. Other than that, I seem to have hits on my reviews of the newer games. Good to know the truth I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty lazy about checking my site&#8217;s statistics for a while now. As such, I&#8217;ve found the new feature that automatically shows you the most popular plug-ins for WordPress and installs them automatically if you like them to be very useful. One of these plug-ins shows me some basic statistics on how many visitors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=2427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WordPress.com Stats tells me humanity is hopeless<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-internet-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}