I began blogging about my experiences in academia and as a science fiction scholar in the Fall of 2006, but I moved my early work over to WordPress.com in March 2007 where I have been hosting dynamicsubspace.net ever since. This is my 500th blog post since I began, so I thought I dig through my site logs and share some surprising statistics with you.
DynamicSubspace.net had a very tentative beginning with only 3,772 visits during 2007. However, things really took off after I wrote more content and that content was indexed by Google. So, in 2008, my total number of site visits leapt to 27,878, and so far in 2009, I have 29,924 visits. In the screen grab above, you can see these numbers spread out by month, which generates a nice roller coaster graph of site activity.
I have written 224,109 words, including tags, on DynamicSubspace.net, which includes my earlier mac.com posts before the transition. That’s two regular-sized novels or nearly one mega-sized novel like Neal Stephenson’s Anathem.
Over the past three years, these have been the five most popular pages on Dynamicsubspace.net:
- On Forced Deep Throat in Aliens vs. Predator Requiem (10,230 visits)
- The Cigarette Smoking Man and Ms. Yutani in AVP2 Requiem (1,995 visits)
- 1080p Trouble with Windows 7, Nvidia, and Samsung LCD HDTV (1,120 visits)
- Apple Favors the MacBook Pro With 64bit Kernel (896 visits)
- Fandom, Otaku, and Home Guys in Taiwan (789 visits)
These are the top five search terms on DynamicSubspace.net. It should be noted that I don’t mean to misrepresent. I do talk about these things, but I don’t think that I talk about them all necessarily in the way that many of these readers want.
- predator (13,533)
- vagina dentata (588)
- forced deep throat (537)
- forced deepthroat (527)
- sunshine review (338)
I plan to write more about science fiction scholarship for 500 more posts and beyond–time and energy permitting, but I should consider putting my writing down for other purposes like writing a book.
