Information Research Weblog

As usual with things related to Information Research, I have a counter on the top page - kindly provided by NedStat - which provides data on where the 'hits' come from.

Although it is early in the life of the Weblog, it is interesting to see the emerging pattern. We can discount the almost 40% of activity that is within the Weblog itself, since that is simply a record of my 'editorial' work. The interesting things to note - at least I think so - is that almost 20% of hits result form search engine hits. It's nice to know that Google and Yahoo (another way of saying Google) have indexed the site.

It is also interesting to see that more than 60% of the hits come from the journal Web site - which implies that people are following the links from the contents page and the top page of InformationR.net We don't have any library catalogue listings yet, and the number from other Weblogs is small, but, who knows...

I've been a little surprised by how quickly the geographical coverage has increased: initially, the Weblog was getting hits from the UK, the USA and Australia, but now it has hits from 25 countries. I imagine that by the time the next issue of the journal comes out, it could well be double that.