My readers are natural-born workaholics
12th June 2009
Here’s the ultimate proof 
:
One can clearly see that on weekends the number of unique visitors of my blog drops drastically to about 40-50% of the working week average.
And yes, that is an almost perfect 5+2 pattern, which I’m observing for many months, like a week-long circadian rhythm. “Almost perfect” must be due to the differences in time zones.
I wonder if the same pattern is characteristic for most web-sites… That is, if people mostly do the browsing at work, and not at home.
Anybody wants to share the secret cycles of one’s blog audience?
June 12th, 2009 at 16:47
My blog follows exactly the same pattern. It makes sense to me, I share programming tips you can use in everyday work.
June 13th, 2009 at 0:15
Paolo, you’ve got a new subscriber
I used to work intensely with R for a single month, but that was 2.5 years ago; right now I’m facing the need to return to R, and your (plotting|graphing) tips might be useful.
As for the visitors: there’s also the 20/80 principle reaping glory on my blog, with less than 20% posts getting much more than 80% traffic. Sadly, the most popular post is the least useful and the least interesting – in my opinion.