Okay, so in March 2007 I
predicted that the traffic from the blogsite I
used to belong to,
Debunking Christianity, would overtake the traffic on the blogsite
Triblogue. I've been vindicated!
It seems that the statistics of traffic smooth out such that whether you use the information of visits in the last hour, day, week or month, they all converge on the same (relative) answer for traffic prediction.
DC is seeing over 1,000 visits per day, while Tblog is seeing 762. The DC average over the past 11 months (not including July 2008, since that's a partial datum) has been 27,000 visits / month. For some strange reason, March 2008 was a particularly good month for DC, with a huge spike in traffic up to 48,200 visits. No other month comes close, with April running a distant second place at 32,700. When I look at the 3/08 archive, a few of the posts have 100+ comments, so a few of them must be responsible for the huge influx. Perhaps a link from a carnival?
As of right now, based on traffic over the last month, DC will see 32,000 separate visits in the next month, while based on the same period's data, Tblog will see 21,000.
Does it really mean anything? Not in a cosmic sense. However, one of the (few) ways I feel I've made lasting contributions to the world involve my founding of Gator Freethought and its media impact, as well as my extensive work on getting Debunking Christianity's website up and running well. I decided a while back to remove myself from the site out of employment concerns, and asked John to scrub all references of my last name and such from the site.
Despite lacking cosmic potential impact, these two organizations, and their webpages, will be around for a looooooong time, I really hope. Even if they went defunct tomorrow, the ripple effect of all the lives they impacted, conversions or deconversions from religion, doubts or faith affected...it's something, at least. Given the largely-positive impact that DC and GF have on people, I feel really good about that. At least something of a legacy for my life has already been created, although it is more of what I've set in motion than what I'll be recognized for later on.
