Milestones
Today celebrates over 100,000 words of nonsense written on Flexistentialist. The current stats for the site, including this post:
- Entries: 319
- Comments: 515 (And thanks to every one of you.)
- Total words: 101,415
- Unique words used: 10,051 (Which is somewhere around 3.5% of the total number of words in the English language, by conservative estimates. Source: How many words in the English language?)
- Average words per entry: 317.92
- Probability that any given word I type will be unique: 9.91%
- Flesch Reading Ease score: 63.76 out of 100 (Higher numbers indicate more difficult reading. Reader’s Digest = 65, Wall Street Journal = 43, Average Insurance Policy = 10)
- Average number of unique visitors per month: Approximately 3500
- Most popular entry: Black Eye Peas and Jurassic 5 – September 15th, 2002. Read the comments on this one, they are very strange, and new ones appear almost daily now. I only leave the comments open as a sort of social experiment.
- Selected amusing search terms, each of which has been used more than 10 times (and some have been used hundreds of times):
- black eye peas
- tour de fat
- adrian barbaeu
- girls using urinals
- pictures of women peeing
- topless skiing (That one is your fault, mother.)
- weird food
- girls with glasses
- teabagged
- gender change
- eating a pomegranate
- Time spent collecting these stats: 57 minutes
Here is to another 100,000 words of drivel, coming at you from Flexistentialist.
Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 | Sam | Metacrap
Congratulations! Now tell me how you did the unique words and the Flesch Reading Ease score—is there a form I can fill out?
I get a lot of hits from people trying to find out how much Beyonce weighs.
Interesting stats, son! You have a great site. And I’m so proud that I was able to contribute to a search item for your site, and I didn’t even have to know about computers to do it. I am surprised, however, that “breast feeding” didn’t make it to the list. I’ll try harder from now on to make your life interesting. It’s my mission in life. Of course, you do the same for me.
Gwen, the word stats are calculated by MTWordStats: http://www.paranoidfish.org/projects/mtwordstats/
My ‘About’ page is a template that includes some of the MTWordStats statistics, and is rebuilt with a cron every night. It takes a LONG time to rebuild templates using those stats, so I don’t let it rebuild normally, just on the cron. Otherwise posting entries or comments would take ages.
Like mine? I use Kalsey’s word count, but am probably going to remove it because the rebuild’s simply agonizing. Good idea about the daily rebuild, maybe I’ll do that instead, though I don’t know anything about the cron…