...is often invoked as explaining the general decline of blogs, something we have certainly seen in the philosophy blogosphere. With another year of blogging behind us, it's striking how stable things have been here, however.
2019 saw almost the exact same number of visits to the blog as in 2018: 3,566,545 in 2019 compared to 3,566,762 the year before, so an average of nearly 10,000 visits each day, and that's including the lighter blogging summer months. That's all the more striking (at least to me!) given that 2018 was the year of L'Affaire Ronell, which saw multiple newspapers and magazines link to the blog for the scandal we first exposed, while 2019 had nothing so sensational. 2019 even had slightly more visits (about 3%) than in 2017.
On the other hand, 2019 did see a small decline (about 5%) in total page views from 2018, but there were still 4,555,275 page views last year. (Each visit counts for one page view, as I understand it, but every additional page viewed in the same visit (such as following an internal link, or going into the comments section) adds another "page view.") Fewer comment sections would probably suffice to depress that number, and I have generally been running fewer of those over the years because of the time required to moderate them.
In any case, I'm pleased and grateful to you, dear readers, for contributing to the more than 3.5 million visits and more than 4.5 million page views last year. Thanks, as always, for reading.
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