Comments on: 100,000 visitors to Times & Seasons

By: Frank McIntyre

Frank McIntyre — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:48:39 +0000

I just noticed that in the post, Matt puts the average comment in his sample at 140 words. So I guess we really do talk that much.

By: Frank McIntyre

Frank McIntyre — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:45:50 +0000

If the SQL database is almost completely the text of comments that would imply that, for words+space average 6 bytes, we have about 5 million words. Also, our average comment took 800 bytes, which would be 130 words or so. That seems very long, so I’m guessing the database has some overhead to it, but who knows? This comment is 63 words.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:36:51 +0000

FWIW, the SQL database shows that wp_comments has 39,346 entries (i.e., 39,000 comments) and the total space taken up by that table is 32.1 MB. (plus 87k in overhead, whatever that is).

By: Bryce I

Bryce I — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:27:52 +0000

FYI, Matt, b2evolution includes word counts as a standard feature (just for posts, I think).

By: Matt Evans

Matt Evans — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:24:56 +0000

Frank, I just now saw your request for information on how I counted the words in the comments. You were right that I didn’t do it by hand, but the only method available to me was still laborious. I randomly selected threads (by weighted average of number of comments) and pasted all of the thread’s comments into Word, then used its word count feature. Then I deducted the number of words the word-counter attributed to the attribution line (“Comment by Ryan Bell — 6/29/2004 : 2:48 pm”). I’m sure there’s a better way. I’ll have you help me when we reach 500,000 visitors.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

reading times and seasons has really made me thin.
I’m glad it is here. I don’t really read much else in the blogernacle on a regular basis- but whenever I do it makes me think I want to start a blog.
But what the heck would I write about?

By: dp

dp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wish reading T&S made me thin!

Impressive. Of course with Gary Cooper now on board as a full-timer at Doctrinal:net, it should only take a few more of his characteristically lengthy posts and we’ll probably have 405,000 words too! :-)

By: Gordon Smith

Gordon Smith — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Let me add my thanks to Matt’s. And Mike, I really want to know about the T&S weight loss program. Can you imagine the number of visitors we would get if we could promise Gospel discussion and weight loss?!

By the way, when we started this, some people wondered how long it would take before we were pulled aside by our bishops or stake presidents and encouraged to consider other avocations. So far, I am in the clear. Anyone else have encounters?

One final note: dp, don’t you think that it’s time to add T&S back to your blogroll? I mean, you just added one of our Top 10 comment leaders as a blogger, so we can’t be all that bad, right?

By: danithew

danithew — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was just thinking yesterday that Times and Seasons is the most interesting blog in the Bloggernacle — has the best posts, most interesting commentary, etc.

Congrats on hitting the 100k mark!

By: Jordan Fowles

Jordan Fowles — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! You mean I have actually read the equivalent of that many pages?

(thinking wistfully of all the really good literature I could have read….)