How about article readership–that is, articles viewed independently as HTML files rather than as parts of issues?
Page views in 2012
The recent view numbers (January 1-July 8, 2012) are interesting, and maybe a little surprising (or not). Nineteen articles have been viewed at least 450 times in the first half of 2012:
| Articles | 2012 | Title |
| v7i2c.htm | 1,003 | Perspective: Conference Speaking: I Have a Little List |
| v9i10c.htm | 844 | Perspective: Academic Library Blogging: A Limited Update |
| v6i10a.htm | 710 | Perspective: Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle |
| v8i4c.htm | 604 | Old Media/New Media Perspective: Thinking About Kindle and Ebooks |
| v9i2a.htm | 560 | A was for AAC: A Discursive Glossary, Rethought and Expanded |
| v12i3a.htm | 552 | Public Library Closures: On Not Dropping Like Flies |
| v8i1c.htm | 537 | Perspective: Discovering Books: OCA & GBS Retrospective |
| v12i1b.htm | 521 | Making it Work: It’s Academic (or not) |
| v11i7b.htm | 515 | Copyright Comments: Public Domain |
| v9i9b.htm | 514 | Offtopic Perspective: 50 Movie Comedy Classics, Part 1 |
| v9i4a.htm | 512 | Perspective: The Google Books Search Settlement |
| v10i3a.htm | 503 | Making it Work: Philosophy and Future |
| v9i3c.htm | 494 | Interesting & Peculiar Products |
| v6i12d.htm | 483 | Open Access Perspective, Part II: Pioneer OA Journals: Preliminary Additions from DOAJ |
| v8i4b.htm | 468 | Library Access to Scholarship |
| v8i9b.htm | 467 | Perspective: Updating the Book Discovery Projects |
| v12i1a.htm | 464 | Bibs & Blather |
| v12i1c.htm | 458 | Offtopic Perspective: 50 Movie Box Office Gold, Part 1 |
| v9i12a.htm | 455 | Library Access to Scholarship |
I’m a little surprised that the first one–now five years old–is the most popular article this year. (I’m a little surprised by the first five in general.)
Worth noting: v8i11c is an earlier item on Google Books, as is v8i9b (and, of course, v9i4a). You folks should look forward to the August 2012 C&I.
I’m pleased to see that old movie reviews continue to be popular–and if I’d extended the table two more rows, you’d see The Back from March 2012 at 444, so I guess I’ll keep doing the snarky stuff as well.
Page views total
What about total pageviews–noting that early volumes of C&I didn’t have HTML separates? Twenty-two articles have at least 6,000 pageviews to date:
| Articles | Total | Title |
| v6i2a.htm | 20,895 | Library 2.0 and “Library 2.0” |
| v6i10a.htm | 15,564 | Perspective: Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle |
| v7i2c.htm | 15,165 | Perspective: Conference Speaking: I Have a Little List |
| v5i10b.htm | 15,057 | Perspective: Investigating the Biblioblogosphere |
| v5i13a.htm | 11,482 | Perspective: Life Trumps Blogging |
| v7i1b.htm | 8,532 | Perspective: Book Searching: OCA/GBS Update |
| v5i5a.htm | 7,669 | Bibs & Blather |
| v6i12d.htm | 7,275 | Open Access Perspective, Part II: Pioneer OA Journals: Preliminary Additions from DOAJ |
| v6i4a.htm | 7,133 | Perspective: Folksonomy and Dichotomy |
| v8i4c.htm | 6,904 | Old Media/New Media Perspective: Thinking About Kindle and Ebooks |
| v6i6a.htm | 6,866 | Perspective: Discovering Books |
| v7i9a.htm | 6,860 | Perspective: On the Literature |
| v6i3a.htm | 6,707 | Followup Perspective: Beyond Library 2.0 and “Library 2.0” |
| v6i12a.htm | 6,640 | Open Access Perspective Part I: Pioneer Journals: The Arc of Enthusiasm, Five Years Later |
| v6i13a.htm | 6,456 | Net Media Perspective: What About Wikipedia? |
| v6i3e.htm | 6,440 | (C)2 Perspective: What NC Means to Me |
| v6i4d.htm | 6,353 | PC Progress, October 2005-February 2006 |
| v5i14a.htm | 6,269 | Perspective: OCA and GLP 1: Ebooks, Etext, Libraries and the Commons |
| v6i5a.htm | 6,188 | Perspectives: Seventyfive Facets |
| v6i8e.htm | 6,069 | (C)3 Perspective: Finding a Balance 2: Signs of Imbalance |
| v6i1c.htm | 6,012 | Interesting & Peculiar Products |
| v6i1e.htm | 6,002 | (C)2 Perspective: Will Fair Use Survive? |
I don’t see a huge number of surprises there–except for v5i5a, Bibs & Blather, which was (as is typical) purely functional: I was explaining a few changes in sections and why I was starting to do HTML separates.
If this list is at all a guide, it says I should continue writing about blogging, Google Books, open access, media and copyright, as well as other things. Well, copyright’s been paid close attention to this year; Google Books will get the year’s longest issue in a week or two; a blogging article will probably be in the September issue. I think OA is now my largest set of Diigo tags, so that will show up–and I’ll never stop writing about media.
There’s one more way of looking at article readership: Adding issue (PDF) downloads to article (HTML) pageviews. That yields a somewhat astonishing 80 articles for which I can assert a combined readership of more than 10,000, way too big a table to include here and including a wild variety of stuff. Even a cutoff of 12,000 or more yields 29 articles–which is long, but maybe not too long.
Total readership including HTML pageviews and PDF downloads
Here it is–“Gtotal” is short for Grand Total. (vlookup makes this table plausible, although nontrivial.)
| Articles | Gtotal | Title |
| v6i2a.htm | 54,059 | Library 2.0 and “Library 2.0” |
| v6i10a.htm | 25,181 | Perspective: Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle |
| v5i10b.htm | 24,807 | Perspective: Investigating the Biblioblogosphere |
| v7i2c.htm | 20,498 | Perspective: Conference Speaking: I Have a Little List |
| v5i13a.htm | 17,071 | Perspective: Life Trumps Blogging |
| v7i1b.htm | 16,187 | Perspective: Book Searching: OCA/GBS Update |
| v5i5a.htm | 15,502 | Bibs & Blather |
| v5i10d.htm | 15,003 | (C)2 Perspective: Orphan Works |
| v6i4a.htm | 14,397 | Perspective: Folksonomy and Dichotomy |
| v6i12d.htm | 14,345 | Open Access Perspective, Part II: Pioneer OA Journals: Preliminary Additions from DOAJ |
| v6i12a.htm | 13,710 | Open Access Perspective Part I: Pioneer Journals: The Arc of Enthusiasm, Five Years Later |
| v6i4d.htm | 13,617 | PC Progress, October 2005-February 2006 |
| v6i10b.htm | 13,529 | Bibs & Blather |
| v4i12a.htm | 13,498 | Perspective: Wikipedia and Worth |
| v6i4e.htm | 12,976 | Offtopic Perspective: 50-Movie All Stars Collection 1 |
| v7i1d.htm | 12,892 | Finding a Balance: Patrons and the Library |
| v6i6a.htm | 12,883 | Perspective: Discovering Books |
| v7i9a.htm | 12,654 | Perspective: On the Literature |
| v4i3c.htm | 12,621 | PC Progress, July 2003-January 2004 |
| v6i12b.htm | 12,588 | Old Media/New Media: Books, Bookstores and Ebooks |
| v5i14a.htm | 12,551 | Perspective: OCA and GLP 1: Ebooks, Etext, Libraries and the Commons |
| v6i4b.htm | 12,547 | The Library Stuff |
| v4i12b.htm | 12,337 | Copyright Currents |
| v4i12c.htm | 12,316 | Offtopic Perspective: The Rest of the DoubleDoubles |
| v6i13a.htm | 12,173 | Net Media Perspective: What About Wikipedia? |
| v6i4c.htm | 12,058 | (C)1: Term & Extent |
| v6i3a.htm | 12,052 | Followup Perspective: Beyond Library 2.0 and “Library 2.0” |
| v4i12d.htm | 12,037 | Interesting & Peculiar Products |
| v6i9a.htm | 12,008 | Bibs & Blather |
