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Visitor and article statistics
An insight into this website

During August 2008 - August 2009 (56 weeks) this website received more than 10,000 visitors from a total of 100 countries. During September 2009 - January 2010 (22 weeks) there were another 10,000 visitors from a total of 119 countries, of which the top six countries were Australia 40%, USA 26%, UK 8%, Canada 6%, India 4%, and New Zealand 2%. About 6% came directly, 78% via a search engine, and 16% via referring sites. About 10% came more than once. By January 2010 the website was receiving more than 1200 visitors per month.

In January 2010 there were 65 articles whose length and readabilty were as shown above.

The most common article length is 1000-1500 words, which takes 4-6 minutes to read at the average student reading speed of 250 words per minute. The most common reading difficulty is 8-9 as measured by Gunning's Fog Index (Gunning R The Technique of Clear Writing McGraw-Hill 1952 pages 34-39). The index is roughly equal to the grade level required for 90% comprehension. For comparison 6 is required for comics, 9 for Reader's Digest, and 14 for encyclopedias. On this website no article reaches 12, which is the average reading comprehension level of 17-year-olds. To read all 65 articles takes nearly eight hours. Just over half have one or more graphics.

Top twenty articles
Below, the top twenty articles stay much the same between the two periods, and only three articles (shown in boldface) are not in both periods. Their similarity is confirmed by a rank correlation coefficient of 0.86, where 0 is no similarity and 1 is perfect similarity. The initial digits are the number of hits in the period indicated.

Aug 2008-Aug 2009 (56 weeks)              Sep 2009-Jan 2010 (22 weeks)
1640 Oxygen is Good. 10m                  1294 Divining for Water. 10m 4g
1443 Planting by the Moon. 8m 1g           755 Oxygen is Good. 10m
 732 Divining for Water. 10m 4g            661 Planting by the Moon. 8m 1g
 698 Enough to Make a Statue Weep. 10m     604 Enough to Make a Statue Weep. 10m
 641 Contact and Meeting Details. 8m 9g    318 Contact and Meeting Details. 8m 9g
 498 Chocolate is Good for You. 6m         293 Divining for Brass and Gold. 6m
 403 Divining for Brass and Gold. 6m       260 Chocolate is good for you. 6m
 339 Mythbuster TV Classics. 8m 5g         249 Message in a Bottle. 12m 2g
 322 Critical Thinking. 5m                 232 How to Write Your Entry. 10m 1g
 310 History of WA Skeptics. 6m7g          225 Mythbuster TV Classics. 8m 5g
 309 How to Write Your Entry. 10m 1g       207 Critical Thinking. 5m
 288 Wine a Magnetic Personality? 8m3g     192 Common Crooked Arguments. 6m 2g
 287 Message in a Bottle. 12m 2g           175 Crash Course Critical Thinking.7m4g
 265 Sixteen Examples. 25m                 161 Astrology my Passion my Life. 12m9g
 260 Crash Course Critical Thinking.7m4g   151 Chariots Old Hat in New Age. 7m2g
 229 Contacting the Dead. 5m               130 History of WA Skeptics. 6m7g
 218 Common Crooked Arguments. 6m 2g       114 Contacting the Dead. 5m
 214 Paranormal Beliefs of Teachers. 6m    108 Wine a Magnetic Personality? 8m3g
 187 Karma Dharma Pudding and Pie. 1m      101 Karma Dharma Pudding and Pie. 1m
 158 Cereal Killers. 4m 2g                 101 A Day at the Psychic Fair. 4m 2g

Average time on screen
The average time an article was on screen after being accessed by a visitor is three minutes for both of the above periods. But now there is little similarity between the top performers, as shown by the following top ten articles. Articles not in both sets are shown in boldface. Initial digits are the average time on screen in minutes.

Aug 2008-Aug 2009 (56 weeks)              Sep 2009-Jan 2010 (22 weeks)
11.65 Kinetic Energy. 10m 2g              8.17 Divining for Brass and Gold. 6m
 7.86 Psychic on demand. 20m              7.49 Psychic for a Day. 12m
 7.20 Divining for Water. 10m 4g          7.40 Million Dollar Prize. 25m 1g
 6.32 Enough to Make a Statue Weep.10m    6.96 Divining for Water. 10m 4g
 5.41 Can you Detect Hoaxes? 5m           6.51 Atlantis Falcon. 10m
 5.33 Message in a Bottle. 12m 2g         5.65 Crash Course Critical Thinking.7m4g
 5.13 Psychic for a Day. 12m              5.42 Planting by the Moon. 8m 1g
 5.08 Undeceiving Ourselves. 15m 6g       5.38 Teaching Pigs to Sing. 12m 1g
 4.56 Planting by the Moon. 8m 1g         5.28 Cold Reading. 4m 1g
 4.36 Scourge of the Godmen. 5m 1g        5.08 Message in a Bottle. 12m 2g

During the period August 2008 - August 2009 there was almost no correlation between hits and time (r = 0.13),
probably because serious readers tend to download a wanted article rather than read it on screen.

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