ArnoHollosi: revisited 2005-11-02 (2005-11-06 16:57) [#364]

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Dieter: I made a snapshot of Most Popular two weeks ago and compared it with today's figures. Here are a few results and possible conclusions.

• If we compare the two top hundreds of all time, we notice only one substitution: End Game has left, enters Gnu Go.
• There are almost no changes in position. Sensei's Library is a mature site. Absolute figures remain stable.
• However, there is noticeable change in recent browsing behaviour versus all time browsing behaviour. Of the 99 pages taken into consideration, the top twenty of hits over the past two weeks shows five newcomers, compared to the all time top hundred: PagesForBeginners, KoreanNames, Shusaku, UserPreferences and KGSTheKiseidoGoServer. All time top 20 that recently have dropped in interest are FindPage, HikaruNoGoJunkie, Fuseki, CoffeeMachine and LifeAndDeath.
• Frontpage is much more popular recently than RecentChanges.
• The trends become even clearer when we use the following metric: (number of hits of past two weeks)/(all time hits). The list is headed by:

1. PagesForBeginners
2. RankWorldwideComparison
3. KGSTheKiseidoGoServer
4. MonkeyJump
5. 44PointJosekis
6. Joseki
7. LGroup
8. Net
9. KoreanNames
10. Go
11. HowToUseWiki
12. Shusaku
13. 34Point
14. GuidedTours
15. Goban
16. GoHistory
17. GoServers
18. GoPlayingPrograms
19. SenseisLibrary
20. GoProverbs

The list is trailed by:

1. RecentChangesGames
2. ExampleGame
3. FindPage
4. MetaDiscussion
5. HikaruNoGoJunkie
6. FullRecentChanges
7. CoffeeMachine
8. MessageBoard
9. Tartrate
10. HikaruNoGoProblems
11. HikaruNoGoGames
12. GoHumour
13. HikaruNoGo
14. Nakade
15. Fuseki
16. MostPopular
17. CranesNestTesuji
18. BeginnerStudySection
19. SnapBack
20. GoTerms

Conclusions

1. There are much more readers nowadays than contributors. (Frontpage, Pages For Beginners versus Recent Changes, Coffee Machine, Message Board, Meta Discussion ...)
2. There are more beginners compared to experienced players than before. (Pages For Beginners versus ...)
3. The Hikaru age is over (as we know) and the basic incoming flux is provided by Go Servers and Programs, in particular KGS and GnuGo.
4. Playing games on SL has become an arkane activity.
5. Contrary to what the constant creation of home pages and talk may have suggested, the browsing activity shows much more interest in technical stuff than in social, SL internal stuff (cfr Net, Goban, LGroup versus GoHumour, Message Board, ...)
6. As for actions to be taken, I would look for a way to rehabilitate FindPage. I find its declining popularity strange and undesirable. (Later: it may be explained by the inclusion of a search function on the frontpage)

Dieter: Comparison Octobre 2005 vs May 2006 (2006-05-08 17:49) [#1514]

When comparing the most popular pages in Octobre 2005 and May 2006, here are a few conclusions:

New in top 100

• 76. GoSuite
• 93. Komi
• 97. GoSeigen
• 98. 34PointJosekis

Left the top 100

• ExampleGame
• TeachYourselfGo
• HikaruNoGoProblems
• Nigiri

Fast climbers

• PagesForBeginners
• KoreanNames
• UserPreferences
• Shusaku

Pages in decline

• RecentChangesGames
• MetaDiscussion
• FindPage
• HikaruNoGoJunkie
• Fuseki

Trivia

• In two years, with this trend kept constant, the FrontPage will take over first place from RecentChanges.
• The popularity of ThrowingTheBoardAgainstTheWallDentingTheWallAndTheBoardPriorToUppercuttingYourOpponent remains a mistery.

Conclusions

Recent behaviour shows an increased interest for Go professionals (Shusaku, GoSeigen) and a decline of Hikaru pages. The popularity of UserPreferences, Frontpage, PagesForBeginners, suggests an increased proportion of people new to Go and SL, confirmed by the (relative) decline of "experienced deshi" favourites such as RecentChanges, MetaDiscussion, FullRecentChanges, CoffeeMachine, MessageBoard ...