December 13, 2012

iSteve: Coming up on 30,000,000 page views

According to my Sitemeter, my iSteve websites (this blog and my article archives) should hit 30 million page views by this weekend. Currently, it's running at about 15,000 page views per day. 

By Steve Sailer on 12/13/2012

39 comments:

Orthodox said...

Is this good for the Jews?

12/13/12, 3:54 AM
Christopher Paul said...

Well deserved, Steve.

12/13/12, 5:16 AM
Captain Tripps said...

It’s the Jerry Seinfeld approach – write engagingly and entertainingly about nothing, and be wildly successful at it! (Kidding! Love the blog…)

12/13/12, 5:43 AM
Anonymous said...

Does this include RSS subscribers? Though it might be a small portion of your readership, there are probably plenty of people like me who use Google Reader to follow iSteve.

12/13/12, 6:21 AM
Anonymous said...

Congratulations!
It's a consistently interesting site so that's why people visit. It's that simple. This site wins people over with personality rather than looks, I'd say.

Mr. Sailer, you might want to migrate over to Wordpress or jazz up your existing Blogger site at least. My guess is you're leaving ad revenue on the table by not "taking this thing to the next level", as Alex Jones over at Infowars always says.

On the other hand I do kind of like the limited ability for readers to engage in back and forth feuding in your comments section. That is a strike against the Takimag site in my books. You could easily limit the number of times readers can reply to another's comments though. It can be done in Wordpress at least.

Again, congratulations!

12/13/12, 6:27 AM
DCThrowback said...

Probably because I refresh 10x a day. Sorry Steve.

12/13/12, 6:51 AM
Brazilian said...

I love your work Steve.

Sorry for never giving you money, I'm a cheap Brazilian.

12/13/12, 7:02 AM
Laguna Beach Fogey said...

30,000,000 views--and our people still sleep.

Way to go, Steve!

12/13/12, 7:17 AM
Anonymous said...

The VDare link to make a contribution to you is broken. The current link sends the user back to the main page.

12/13/12, 7:41 AM
Anonymous said...

Congrats, that's a lot of page views - what's the trend over the years?

12/13/12, 7:45 AM
ElvisNixon.com said...

Well deserved landmark

That's what you get for being insightful and honest

12/13/12, 7:48 AM
candid_observer said...

It would be very interesting to a number of us if you might reveal some of the statistics you see regarding use of your blog.

Any patterns worthy of note?

12/13/12, 7:51 AM
Dan Kurt said...

How can you monetize this success? That is the question.

A Harvard man would have the answer, no?

Dan Kurt

12/13/12, 8:01 AM
Anonymous said...

But the question is, "will this blog open anyone's mind?" I doubt many. Ignorance of the realities of human biodiversity is mostly willful.

12/13/12, 8:02 AM
Anonymous said...

Congratulations!

Risto

12/13/12, 9:16 AM
Anonymous said...

Congratulations Mr. Sailer.

12/13/12, 9:26 AM
quidite said...

Refresh, refresh, refresh.

12/13/12, 9:55 AM
quidite said...

Refresh, refresh, refresh...

12/13/12, 9:55 AM
eh said...

what's a sitemeter? Who issues it to you? Where do you buy one? Who manufactures them? Who services them when they break?

12/13/12, 9:59 AM
Ramble said...

You should give away a "Noticing Things is Good" t-shirt or something.

* someone can come up with a better motto

12/13/12, 10:36 AM
Anonymous said...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/12/best-movies-of-2012.html

12/13/12, 10:41 AM
Thomas O. Meehan said...

Congratulations.

12/13/12, 11:37 AM
Anonymous said...

And you should congratulate yourself that those are generally 15,000 pretty discerning people, too.

12/13/12, 1:25 PM
FredR said...

Ok but half of those are me bored at work.

12/13/12, 2:47 PM
marty said...

I spend a lot of time on this site. But today I learned something by leaving it. I went to Volokh and clicked a link to an e-book by a former national security official. There I learned that the American official most responsible for the 9/11 f-up was a judge, Royce Lamberth, then-head of the FISA court. Turns out Jamie Gorelick wasn't really a factor.

12/13/12, 3:27 PM
Anonymous said...

Regular reader from New Zealand here.

Great work Steve.

You've earned every single one.

You present a constantly refreshing, thoughtful take on things, and you don't get nearly enough credit (or money) for it.

I still recall the first time I read your material - I've been hooked since.

I know compliments come cheap (and don't help you upgrade that tired Japanese sedan (if that's what you're still riding around in)), but you'll be the first person on my give-to list when I achieve the wherewithal to contribute to your work in a meaningful way.

12/13/12, 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...

I think Sailer should post a video of him doing the gangnam. He might get more hits. And it would be the story of bravery of acting ridiculous.

12/13/12, 3:37 PM
a very knowing American said...

When I was a kid there was a game called "Careers." You moved pieces around the board and followed different career tracks and picked up different points. You had to earn 60 points to win, but before the game started you had to decide whether your career goal was to collect, say, 50 money points (little dollar signs), 5 fame points (little stars), and 5 happiness points (little hearts), or some different combination. It didn't take much playing to figure out that you were better off shooting for mostly money (following the business track) or fame (the Hollywood track), and you weren't going to win aiming for lots of hearts. (I think the farming track gave you some hearts and not much else.)

It's pretty clear that Steve Sailer either didn't play much "Careers" as a kid, or is stubborn or a slow learner, because he seems to have followed some kind of very wrong-headed 5 dollar signs / 10 stars / 45 hearts strategy in life ... for which those of us who enjoy his blog can be grateful.

12/13/12, 4:17 PM
Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYEBbUj4Cg

At Harvard, even the Pakistani guy looks white.

12/13/12, 5:00 PM
Anonymous said...

In a few hundred years, some digital archivist will stumble across your archives and say to himself, "Someone saw it all coming . . ."

Thanks for fighting the good fight, while so many of us bow in obeisance and stay in the shadows.

12/13/12, 6:55 PM
Five Daarstens said...

Congrats Steve!

12/13/12, 8:05 PM
Bigfoot said...

Congrats Steve.

Keep giving the S.O.B.s hell...

12/13/12, 9:55 PM
Anonymous said...

Congratulations. I can remember that I'd already been reading your site for a while back when you were getting into it with Instapundit over the Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond incident, and it looks like that was almost exactly 10 years ago. So I guess I can say that "I was reading iSteve before it was cool."

12/13/12, 10:57 PM
Alan D said...

Congratulations Steve.

A lot of what you write about applies, not just to America, but to other western countries such as my own (Australia).

12/13/12, 11:26 PM
ted talks too much said...

I came to this site through some Russian blogger who put an asterisk next to Steve's site on his blogroll, warning that one had to "separate the wheat from the chaff" here. Anyone know who this blogger was?

Anyway, there's a lot more wheat here than at just about any other site.

12/14/12, 2:28 AM
Anonymous said...

So I guess I can say that "I was reading iSteve before it was cool."

In which case Id like to point out that I was reading Steve before there were comments, before there was a Blogger site even. I followed Steve from Vdare.

Back then, still a liberal of sorts, I regarded reading both as a guilty, dangerous pleasure. Now Im much more in a WN way of thinking they seem like mainstream sites!

12/14/12, 5:40 AM
Kevin Michael Grace said...

Sitemeter and other such services typically undercount unique visitors and page views by about 50%. If you want the real figures, get them from your host server.

12/14/12, 11:17 AM
Cail Corishev said...

When I was a kid there was a game called "Careers."

We had that one too -- still do, actually. We played it quite a bit, but it didn't take long to realize that the easiest way to win was 0-hearts, 0-stars, 60-money. We started having a rule that you had to put at least 10 in each category, just to make it more interesting.

12/14/12, 5:49 PM
Holan Raturn said...

Off Topic - Immigration news from NL:

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/12/illegal_immigrants_to_face_390.php

"The cabinet will today discuss its controversial plans to make being an illegal immigrant a criminal offence, RTL news reported on Friday.

Illegal immigrants will face a fine of up to €3,900 and eventual deportation when legislation making illegality a crime comes into effect, sources told the broadcaster."

12/14/12, 9:11 PM

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