Over at one of my other weblogs I looked at university traffic. So I wanted to check Secular Right. The blog’s been around for over 2 years now, and here are the universities which sent more than 500 visitors:
| Visits | |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | 1338 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | 1075 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | 1022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA | 1010 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | 853 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | 851 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | 700 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | 697 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS | 630 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | 614 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | 553 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | 531 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | 523 |
| MEMPHIS STATE UNIVERSITY | 517 |
| OXFORD UNIVERSITY | 509 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | 506 |
Minor clarification: It hasn’t been “Memphis State” since around 1992. Now the “University of Memphis.” At the time, I heard it was because some study or other determined that people find “University of X” to be more prestigious than “X State.” So rather than improve themselves internally, they changed their name.
Have you got the number of visits from Cambridge? More secular rightists from Oxford is what I would expect, as it seems to be mainly radical leftists or politically naive scientific moderates here in Cambridge, but the exact difference would be interesting.
Visitors, or visits? Frankly I don’t believe there have been over 500 separate people looking in here from the University of Memphis (name changed in 1996 from Memphis State). I would be surprised if there were as many as 50.
If I simply misunderstand the nomenclature, I apologize.
I’m not terribly surprised. If you Google the phrase “secular right,” the first citation is for this website. So anyone looking for information on the secular right for a research paper or any other class assignment would naturally come here.
I’m curious if the university traffic rose after the February NY Times profile of this site.
Someone want to standardize this by student enrollment, or total faculty?
I visit from Arizona Sate University from time to time. (But more often from home.) I wouldn’t expect a lot of Sun Devils to be coming here though, we’re more of a party school.
*Sigh*
And I thought University of California would make the list. Turned out they’re a punch of hippies subscribing to New Age mysticism.
Wow. UoU was second? That’s surprising not just because SLC isn’t that big a market but because I’d have expected a lot of big colleges to top it. I wonder if it’s partially that Utah is conservative but folks at UoU are less likely to be religious than say BYU. Whereas the rest of the country you’ll have a strong secular presence at colleges but not a conservative one.
On the other hand UoU is big on your Discovery Blog too. So perhaps it’s more that the scientist types there already read you and are more apt to read your political musings here as well.