Perl Maven under 200,000 and ahead of Perl.com

While I know the rankings Alexa provides are only proxymations to the actual popularity of each site, and I think even they take it seriously only for the first 100,000 sites, but this is the best I can have. Without actually seeing the logs or the Google Analytics of other sites.

Anyway, this is mostly just a fun look at some random numbers.

On 24 December 2013, for the first time Perl Maven ranked higher than perl.com. The Perl Meme site was still a bit ahead.

Two days later, even that was passed. I even recorded the position of these 3 sites the few days around the event. Just to see the fluctuation. I think the margin of error of Alexa can be at least 10%, even for sites with similar audience. So these differences are quite meaningless.

After publishing the initial numbers, I kept looking at the Alexa ranking every day and so you can see these number for the 3 Perl-related sites around 200,000.

                  Perl Maven      Perl Meme     perl.com

24 December 2013 205,506 * 200,323 209,913 26 December 2013 * 203,418 204,856 210,092 30 December 2013 198,766 207,768 * 198,173 31 December 2013 * 198,654 205,299 199,931 1 January 2014 * 199,901 204,513 200,674 2 January 2014 * 201,726 204,851 202,397 3 January 2014 * 201,726 204,851 202,397 4 January 2014 * 202,853 204,921 208,654 5 January 2014 * 202,901 203,617 208,079 6 January 2014 * 202,901 203,617 208,079 7 January 2014 * 199,937 204,175 207,232 8 January 2014 * 199,937 204,175 207,232 9 January 2014 203,495 * 202,468 205,745 10 January 2014 204,037 * 203,876 206,797 11 January 2014 * 197,315 202,704 204,708 12 January 2014 * 195,945 203,221 204,690 13 January 2014 * 193,201 206,973 201,885 14 January 2014 * 193,035 200,925 202,247 15 January 2014 * 192,875 200,486 202,897 16 January 2014 * 190,559 202,747 201,465
17 January 2014 * 188,014 202,696 202,008 18 January 2014 * 185,420 213,832 205,635 19 January 2014 * 185,696 209,699 204,716 20 January 2014 * 187,365 209,492 208,983 21 January 2014 * 183,799 206,921 209,656 22 January 2014 * 180,925 212,659 207,289 23 January 2014 * 179,189 211,486 205,812 24 January 2014 * 180,039 211,653 207,937 25 January 2014 * 179,839 210,864 207,758 26 January 2014 * 180,767 212,123 205,942 27 January 2014 * 178,421 216,795 207,812 28 January 2014 * 177,525 224,269 208,094 29 January 2014 * 176,508 229,949 209,315 30 January 2014 * 175,606 228,960 213,374 31 January 2014 * 175,437 230,082 213,267 1 February 2014 * 174,651 235,956 215,284 2 February 2014 * 170,423 238,036 213,725 3 February 2014 * 170,119 236,935 213,272 4 February 2014 * 169,631 236,537 213,674 5 February 2014 * 169,049 236,471 212,265 6 February 2014 * 171,564 241,166 214,225 7 February 2014 * 169,335 241,009 215,263

The 7 most visited Perl-related sites on January 1, 2014:

1 January 2014
cpan.org 8,807 perl.org 14,772 perlmonks.org 21,273 metacpan.org 73,877 perlmaven.com 199,901 perl.com 200,674 perlmeme.org 204.851

Last time I checked the numbers was on 1 August 2013 three months after the domain name change.