Giving and receiving
I’ve been looking at our links in and out over the past year. Leaving out Twitter, Facebook, various RSS readers, and Reddit, we get the most traffic from Kiwiblog and Simply Statistics, with consistent appearances from Observational Epidemiology, Lindsay Mitchell, Learn and Teach Statistics, Andrew Gelman, Public Address, Anti-Dismal, and my other blog.
Unsurprisingly, our largest outward traffic is to Stuff and NZ Herald, in about a 2:3 ratio. Wikipedia is next, including informative technical references such as the Optional Stopping Theorem, Berkson’s Paradox, and the Asch conformity experiments, and cultural phenomena you might not have encountered, such as the Bechdel test, Satoshi Kanazawa, and ‘Hitler Has Only Got One Ball’.
The other main media sites you clicked through to were the BBC, the Guardian, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
We are only #2?! We need to start linking to StatsChat more often….
11 years ago
How can you tell what links we click through to?
The outgoing site gets to see StatsChat as the referrer but I don’t see how the referrer gets to see the outgoing site.
11 years ago
By the magic of WordPress.
I assume they use some Javascript that tracks click events, since you can’t do it with pure HTML.
11 years ago