Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-05-19 Thread Ben Bullock
In comp.lang.perl.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some > computer language websites. One way to do such research is for you to publish the actual number of hits on your website. It's also easy to analyze logfile data

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-05-01 Thread Jon Harrop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alexa's data is more reliable than quantcast. Alexa claim to have accurate data on lots of sites but I just tried to correlate their data with the exact data on our web server and the discrepancies are huge. For example, combining our number of absolute visitors with the

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-04-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have updated the computing sites popularity ranking, based on both alexa.com and quantcast.com. The whole report nicely formatted in HTML is here: http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/lang_sites.html The following is a summary of some highlights. the relative popularity of the following sites is rough

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-04-25 Thread Jan Claeys
Op Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:07:31 +, schreef Roedy Green: > The weakness of this approach is it is unusual group of people who will > voluntarily submit to having their usage spied on. These are not a > typical group or a large group. Hello, planet Earth calling? I guess around 90% of internet u

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-04-22 Thread Roedy Green
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:41:33 -0700 (PDT), "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > alexa I was shocked at the detailed information Alexa (owned by Amzon.com)_ had about my website. I wrote them and asked how they got it. They said volunteers

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-04-22 Thread Lew
Gerry Ford wrote: "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 22, 4:41 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some computer language websites. I seem to recall this exact same post f

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-04-22 Thread Gerry Ford
"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 22, 4:41 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some > computer language websites. > I seem to recall this exact same post from *last* Febru

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-04-22 Thread Paul McGuire
On Apr 22, 4:41 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some > computer language websites. > I seem to recall this exact same post from *last* February. > I'll be doing some research sometimes soon on this. > ... and no "res

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-04-22 Thread Cor Gest
Some entity, AKA "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped) > My website is now actually ranked higher than PaulGraham.com ! well well, so your site is more popular. You can make it even more popular, you know. Just rename some lame article about

pop langs website ranking

2008-04-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some computer language websites. (The message can be found here: http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/lang_sites.html http://community.livejournal.com/lisp/42778.html http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/59c87899c2668f4c )

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-02-11 Thread Joost Diepenmaat
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Questions: > > • paulgraham.com is unusually high. What's up with that? He writes well. Also, if you look at the ranking, end of januari (Arc's first release) was the highest ranking in 4 months. I'm surprised it didn't score higher, actually. >

Re: pop langs website ranking

2008-02-11 Thread greg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Many top ones are due to the popularity of the lang, but also because > their site hosts the lang's documentation and discussion forum (or > wiki,blogs). Hosting a web forum are likely to increase traffic some > 10 or 100 fold. I think this goes to show that you can't re