Administrivia: Doing the Numbers, 1/2009
It’s been a while (since February 2007), but for everyone’s edification, here are the current WIST stats:
| How many of ... | Jan -09 | Feb-07 | Aug-03 | Feb-02 | Nov-00 |
| Miscellaneous Quotations? | 507 | 475 | 457 | 446 | 400 |
| Authored Quotations? | 6,091 | 4,610 | 4,233 | 3,869 | 3,208 |
| Total Quotations? | 6,598 | 5,085 | 4,690 | 4,315 | 3,608 |
| Cited Authors? | 1,751 | 1,672 | 1,632 | 1,556 | 1,396 |
The “Total Quotations” number doesn’t quite sync up with the number at the top of the main page due to the latter including Adminstrivia posts (such as this one).
The number is still not as huge as other sites -- but all of those quotes have been looked at, examined, and an attempt made to source them. I think that's worthwhile.
As to the currently most represented here ...
| Who? | Rank | Count |
| William Shakespeare | 1 | 105 |
| Mark Twain | 2 | 66 |
| Bertrand Russell | 3 | 65 |
| C.S. Lewis | 4 | 63 |
| George Bernard Shaw | 5 | 61 |
| G. K. Chesterton | 5 | 61 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 7 | 60 |
| Bill Watterson | 8 | 49 |
| Ambrose Bierce | 9 | 46 |
| Benjamin Franklin | 10 | 44 |
Dave Barry and Abe Lincoln fell off the Top 10; Russell and Franklin are the adds this time.
I’m running Google Analytics on this page currently, as far as tracking visitors. I’m getting about 910 hits here per week, most of which come from Google. Not huger numbers, but respectable.
Of the visitors, 57% are from the
Not sure what it all means, but there it is. For myself, I've been pleased with my regimen to post five quotations daily here. I hope my loyal readers enjoy what they're seeing; I thank you one and all.
