Pepys Diary traffic statistics

Several people have asked me about how popular the site is but I’ve been too busy to write up the statistics (which I first looked at last weekend). You can see a chart showing the number of page views. Here’s how it happened…

Comments

• N Keith Wright on Sun 9 Feb 2003, 02:16am

  Astonishing statistics!

  The accumulation of annotations makes the Search function, to check if a topic’s been bruited before, ever more useful. Even if one’s read every fact onsite, who could instantly call each one to mind when needed later?

  Bravo, dauntless leader.

• N Paul Diegenbach on Sun 9 Feb 2003, 10:06am

  please don’t forget that the web is not forever, so accumulate all useful information to put on a cd for libraries and for my grandchildren

• N JR on Mon 10 Feb 2003, 02:55am

  Put it in a book, CD’s aren’t forever.

• N helena murphy on Mon 10 Feb 2003, 06:00am

  I find the annotations both interesting and informative.Along with pepys, they bring the era alive. This is a splendid idea to popularise a great man and a great literary work.

• N kevin sheerstone on Mon 10 Feb 2003, 10:32am

  At last, a second reason for logging-on, the first being the BBC News.

• N Peter on Wed 12 Feb 2003, 04:14pm

  Wow, good job! I knew I was hooked but who would have thought that Pepys would be that popular. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

• N J. Wilson Smith on Wed 12 Feb 2003, 08:44pm

  I found out about you at http://whatis.techtarget.com/, a site that provides definitions for computer-related words/products/procedures. Their ‘word of the day’ back in early January was “Pepys’ weblog,” and the ‘definition’ was an explanation of the pepysdiary.com website.
  

• N Phil on Wed 12 Feb 2003, 09:15pm

  Thanks J - I didn’t know they’d written a piece about the site.

• N Jan on Thu 13 Feb 2003, 10:03pm

  Thanks for a wonderful site. Discovered itin a newspaper article. Have enjoyed Pepys foryears but love the annotations for the insight and explanations I would not get in a read.

• N Glyn on Fri 14 Feb 2003, 05:00pm

  When do you expect your millionth hit?

  It’s a great site but I’m guessing that figures will steadily decline to a smaller plateau as the entries get more routine. I’m basing this on the fact that I know several people who started reading his diary but never got beyond the first volume.

• N Paddy on Sun 16 Feb 2003, 10:13pm

  I have made pepysdiary my home page, so much easier to cope with than the current news.

• N Glyn on Wed 26 Mar 2003, 12:18pm

  What are the stats nowadays?

• N Phil on Wed 26 Mar 2003, 12:22pm

  No idea! I may look at them again at some point and I’ll post them if/when I do.

• N chip on Mon 28 Apr 2003, 03:14am

  I heard about you on NPR in the NYC area. You have done a wonderful thing and I send my compliments and thanks. Do I dare ask if you are in for the duration?