The QuakerQuaker world
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Thanks to the new Google Analytics interface I can actually compile a list of the cities with the most QuakerQuaker readership. So here they are, the top 25:
| Atlanta | 199 |
| Boston | 139 |
| Lawrence MA | 127 |
| Minneapolis/St Paul | 109 |
| San Francisco | 104 |
| Tampa | 97 |
| Portland OR | 94 |
| Albuquerque | 91 |
| Greensboro | 87 |
| Richmond | 81 |
| Philadelphia | 79 |
| London | 65 |
| East Bay CA | 56 |
| Grasonville MD | 53 |
| Chicago | 52 |
| Dublin | 52 |
| Syracuse | 51 |
| Indianapolis | 50 |
| Raleigh | 46 |
| NYC | 46 |
| Chapel Hill | 38 |
| San Luis Obisbo | 35 |
| Seattle | 34 |
| Baltimore | 34 |
| Croydon | 30 |
And for map-lovers:
Close to making the list: Los Angeles, Hartford, Cambridge (US). A certain location in South Jersey would be twelfth (at 53 visitors) but I'm pretty sure that's mostly me so I didn't include it.
Observations: QuakerQuaker is still mostly a U.S. phenomenon, with only London, Dublin and Croydon (near London) cracking the top 25. Altogether the U.K. brought in 321 visitors which represents almost 9% of readership.
I knew there were a lot of readers in the greater Boston area but not this much: add together all the towns in and around the I-495 corridor and you come out with 318 visits, almost 8.6% of QuakerQuaker readership. Add the Bay Area together and you have 169 visitors, which pushes it past Atlanta into number two position.
QuakerQuaker readership (and Quaker blogging in general) often seems particularly strong in cities which have strong Quaker communities but which are geographically isolated from other major Quaker centers. The paradigmatic example is the blog-crazy Twin Cities (#4 on the list) but this description fits first place Atlanta too and maybe Tampa (I'm not familiar with the meeting there). The only state with three distinct geographic centers with major QuakerQuaker readership is North Carolina (Greensboro 87, Raleigh 46 and Chapel Hill 38).
The centers of institutional Quakerism (Portland Or., Greensboro N.C., Richmond, Ind., Philadelphia Pa., and London) all make the list but they're not on top and the "more important" the center the lower it is on the list.
A few caveats:
- These are just visitors in the last month, I didn't compare it to other months to see if this is a general pattern;
- Many users don't actually read QuakerQuaker via RSS readers and email delivery and so never visit the site or get counted by Google Analytics.
For those who care, Windows soundly beats Mac 79% to 18%. Firefox is surprisingly close to MSIE, 40% to 43% with Safari a distant third at 8%.
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Fayetteville, Arkansas will never make such a list, but we (OK, "I") check in faithfully!
Dave Carl
Hi Dave Carl: the stats are detailed enough to pick you out--oh I mean, to see the visits from the fan base in the greater Fayetteville metropolitan area (I did actually notice Fayetteville!). One reason I chose a top-25 format was because it was possible to guess identities in some of the smaller towns.
One of the most interesting things about looking at these stats is seeing how _long_ people spend on the site. There are days when the "average time on site" clocks in at over four minutes (Fayetteville actually averages eight: thanks Dave Carl!). For comparison's sake, the "FGC website":www.fgcquaker.org hovered around a minute per visit last time I checked and I think that's about average.
I guess Savannah won't, either :)
Nice try Liz: G Analytics is showing no visits to QuakerQuaker from Savannah. I'm glad to see you at least visit QuakerRanter regularly. Too bad I can see who's looking at "Twitter":http://twitter.com/martin_kelley.