2019 review – statistics

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Yoram Gat

Below are some statistics about the tenth year of Equality-by-Lot. Comparable numbers for last year can be found here.

2019	Page views	Posts	Comments
Jan	3,353	11	93
Feb	3,372	8	125
Mar	4,681	9	129
Apr	3,740	12	70
May	4,056	8	95
June	3,546	10	160
July	3,319	10	159
Aug	3,589	8	122
Sept	4,002	7	109
Oct	5,041	10	129
Nov	4,535	9	102
Dec (to 25th)	3,605	9	53
Total	46,839	111	1,346

Note that page views do not include visits by logged-in contributors – the wordpress system does not count those visits.

Posts were made by 16 authors during 2019. (There were, of course, many other authors quoted and linked to.)

There are currently 413 email and WordPress followers of this blog. In addition there are 419 Twitter followers (@Klerotarian) and 67 Facebook followers.

Searching for “distribution by lot” (with quotes) using Google returns Equality-by-Lot as the 1st result (out of “about 39,300 results”). Searching for “sortition” returns Equality-by-Lot as the 6th result (out of “about 163,000 results”) – preceded by the sortition entry at Wikipedia, links to Brett Hennig’s Sortition Foundation, and a link to Tim Dunlop’s article in the Guardian.

Happy holidays, a happy new year and a happy new decade to Equality-by-Lot readers, commenters and posters. Keep up the good fight for democracy!

Filed under: Distribution by lot, meta, Sortition |

5 Responses

keithsutherland, on December 27, 2019 at 12:58 am said:

Sounds good Yoram, but I’m concerned that we are ranked after the Sortition Foundation by Google. We should consider changing the name of the site to The Sortition Forum.

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keithsutherland, on December 27, 2019 at 4:39 pm said:

Yoram, I don’t know much about SEO, but would our Google ranking be improved by adding a subtitle, ie Equality by Lot: The Sortition Forum. By rights we ought to be ranked up with Wikipedia.

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keithsutherland, on January 2, 2020 at 7:39 pm said:

Does nobody share my concern that our google ranking is not as good as it might be?

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keithsutherland, on January 5, 2020 at 5:09 pm said:

OK, one last attempt (deep breath). Our home page is headed Equality by Lot: the blog of the Kleroterians and the word “sortition” only appears once (tab heading What is sortition?“). So it’s surprising we feature at all in a Google search for “sortition” and once people hit the home page they are told it’s the domain of the Kleroterians, who sound akin to the inhabitants of the planet Mysteron. Why do we want to shoot ourselves in the foot? Or is it a devious attempt to lead all the traffic to Brett Hennig?

If we’re serious about having an influence in the general sortition debate then we should do something about this. Does nobody else even care?

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2020 review – statistics | Equality by lot, on December 26, 2020 at 7:49 am said:

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