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Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

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Re: Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

#91
Neat. Here’s my blog if you do another run. https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/

It’s artisanally hand crafted HTML with a little VanillaJS on a few pages. No static generator used. Also hosted on Netlify. Although I use BunnyCDN for large media. I post very infrequently.

Re: Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

#92
post #25

I‘m surprised and a bit disappointed that only 4 of them use Matomo. I assumed this to be the quasi standard alternative to Google...

I looked into Matomo. Too much work. My blog is a hobbyist blog. I’m not maintaining a server for the next 30 years for my stats.

Re: Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

#94

Thank you for putting this together! Surprising insights: many actually use Google AdSense, nginx over apache I'd definitely be curious in: PageSpeedInsight (score, load time and size), post frequency/length past 12months, external link density

I answered some of my own questions:

  "time": {
    "minTime": 0.7,
    "maxTime": 53.5,
    "meanTime": 5.5,
    "medianTime": 3.1
  }

 "size": {
  "minSize": 1,
  "maxSize": 33484,
  "meanSize": 1536,
  "medianSize": 1565
 }

Re: Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

#95
post #88

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Can you point me to some of those twitters? Sounds entertaining.

All real quotes: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says?lang=ca I think the threads on imageboards mocking HN are generally funnier, though.

Thanks, and hell - I'll take those too if you got em

Re: Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

#96
post #58

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>doxxing Where does this strange typo come from?

> "Doxing" is a neologism that has evolved over its brief history. It comes from a spelling alteration of the abbreviation "docs" (for "documents") and refers to "compiling and releasing a dossier of personal information on someone".[9] Essentially, doxing is revealing and publicizing records of an individual, which were previously private or difficult to obtain. The term dox derives from the slang "dropping dox" whi…

Doxing, not “doxxing”.

Re: Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

#97

Of those who responded to the 'what is your blog and why should I read it' thread. HN is large. Likely larger than many of its visitors realize because the participants are a relatively small fraction of the readership. So HN readers are not necessarily contributors. And not all contributors would plug their blogs in a thread asking them to do so. If you want to get an idea of the HN readership rather than of the HN…

> you may want to start off by scraping all the profile pages instead Oddly enough, I'm in the middle of this project right now! There are over 600,000 users, and it turns out that many of them use their profiles to share links to things other than personal blogs. I've done some scripting to automate deciding if a link is a personal site or not, but the whole endeavor has been significantly less trivial than I had ho…

This sounds like a very interesting project. Will definitely be on the lookout for this!

Re: Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

#98

If you’re interested in more about what these blogs contain, I review the links in all these threads at https://kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/ . For example, here’s one from last year’s thread at this time: https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/6/

[off topic] FYI, i found this comment by subscribing to the RSS feed of your HN comments on Fraidycat (by linking to https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ for your username)

Very cool!

Re: Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

#99

If you’re interested in more about what these blogs contain, I review the links in all these threads at https://kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/ . For example, here’s one from last year’s thread at this time: https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/6/

[off topic] FYI, i found this comment by subscribing to the RSS feed of your HN comments on Fraidycat (by linking to https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ for your username) Very cool!

Oh hey - just saw this. Thank you for this link - I’ve been looking for just such a thing!
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