Nine years of Divulciencia-Populscience

Nine years after the creation of the blog Divulciencia (whose English version is named Populscience), I have published more than 400 posts, which is equivalent to about 45 posts a year (in summer I take vacations and do not publish).

These posts are classified into 25 thematic threads, of which the most visited is What is man?, one of whose posts, Is man just an animal? is the most visited post in the blog, with more than 55,000 visits.

The blog’s second most visited post is 60 preguntas sobre ciencia y fe respondidas por 26 profesores de universidad (60 Questions about Science and Faith answered by 26 University Professors), which describes the book of that title, published only in Spanish and now out of print, but republished with very few changes, under the title Preguntas sobre ciencia y fe respondidas por profesores de universidad (Questions about Science and Faith answered by University Professors). This post, which received more than 33,000 visits, belongs to the second most visited thematic thread on the blog: Science and atheism. The next two most viewed articles in this thread are What does science say about miracles and Questions for materialist atheists, which among them have received more than 15,000 views.

It is curious and perhaps surprising, but the third most visited thread on the blog is that about Mathematics, whose two most visited posts are The problem of Achilles and the tortoise and The scientific mistake in Cube, which together have more than 22,000 visits. Perhaps this is due, in part, to the fact that two posts in this thread are the most visited posts in the English version of the blog (Populscience): The symbol of death and The scientific mistake in Cube, both of which have got over 15,000 visits.

On the other hand, the least visited thread is the one dedicated to Space Exploration, whose 11 posts have received an average of just over 300 visits per post.

The total number of visits received by the blog, according to the Google analyzer, is about 900,000 in its Spanish version, and about 200,000 in the English version, which makes a total of approximately one million one hundred thousand visits. I do not know how many of them are real visits, made by people, and how many are automatic visits from bots, which should not be counted. According to Google Analytics, at least half of the visits may be spurious, which would reduce the blog’s total number of visits to just over half a million.

Regarding the temporal evolution of visits to the two versions of the blog, the attached figure shows the number of visits per month from May 2016 to the present. This number grew until reaching the maximum (6344 visits) in October 2018, and from there it has been slowly decreasing until now, when the number of visits each month is close to 3000. The figure shows clearly that during the summer holidays the number of visits decreases considerably.

The same post in Spanish

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