{"id":68710,"date":"2012-05-01T22:40:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T06:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16561"},"modified":"2012-05-01T22:40:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T06:40:41","slug":"the-two-audiences-of-a-science-weblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/01\/the-two-audiences-of-a-science-weblog\/","title":{"rendered":"The two audiences of a science weblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started blogging in 2002 the aim, as much as there was one, was to cultivate a particular following. But almost immediately <a href=\"http:\/\/futurepundit.com\/\">Randall Parker<\/a> noticed that traffic to his weblogs were driven not just by conventional blog readers who became &#8220;regulars,&#8221; but also transient search traffic. This is particularly common in the case of time insensitive posts. Basically there are two classes of &#8220;readers,&#8221; the &#8220;one off&#8221; sort coming in through search engines, and &#8220;regular readers,&#8221; of whom commenters are the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>Here are classes of number of visits per visitor over the last two years at this weblog. I&#8217;ve log transformed the results. Notice the bimodality. If you care, currently it looks like the regular repeated visitors, as defined by showing up at least more than once a week, number on the order of 20,000-30,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/05\/visits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16562\" title=\"visits\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/05\/visits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/dJ2SkP5KE74\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started blogging in 2002 the aim, as much as there was one, was to cultivate a particular following. But almost immediately Randall Parker noticed that traffic to his weblogs were driven not just by conventional blog readers who became &amp;#8&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68919,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68710\/revisions\/68919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}