RES IPSA HITS 85,000,000

jonathanturley

2 years ago

I will be tied up today in the Harvard debate over free speech, but I wanted to share our current traffic figures. This morning, Res Ipsa passed the 85,000,000 mark in views on the blog. We have used these moments to give thanks for our many regular readers around the world and share our traffic data to give you an idea of the current profile of readers around the world. We do not have a running data page so these periodic postings allow our community to see the traffic profile of our blog. Because of the growth of the blog, we have gone from million to five million view markers. So let’s get at it.

As always, I want to offer special thanks to Darren Smith, who has continued to help manage the blog and help out folks who encounter posting problems. I also want to thank our editors Kristin Oren and Hartwell Harrison for their amazing work proofing posts on a daily basis to remove my embarrassing typos (as well as others who alert me to typos or any violations of the civility or copyright policies on the blog). They have greatly improved the quality of this blog.

In 2023, we posted another record year in traffic and appear likely to exceed that number in 2024.

So here is our current profile:

As of this morning, we have 22,063 posts.

We also have over 1,400,000 comments. In the interest of full transparency, we are having a debate over what to do about trolls who are impersonating others in the comments, including false postings from me (I generally leave the comment sections for our community and do not post comments). This is obviously a small number of unbalanced individuals who tear down sites or disrupt discourse. There are no great options, which is why many sites have eliminated their comment sections. As a free speech blog, I have resisted that option, but malicious trolls may force a change in the section. In the interim, I can only ask that people respect the civility rules of our blog and allow us to maintain a forum for substantive opinions on contemporary issues.

We have also continued our steady rise on X with 800,000 followers. We have over 21,100 people who follow us on WordPress (doubling the number of followers in roughly the last six months) and by direct emails (which you can subscribe to with the box on the right side of the blog home page).

In the last month, our ten biggest international sources for readers came from:

United States
Canada
Australia
United Kingdom
Germany
New Zealand
Italy
France
Japan
Netherlands

The top five posts in terms of readership in the last 30 days were:

So that’s the update. I cannot thank our regulars enough for their support of the blog. This is an expanding vibrant community and it is a great pleasure to see our community expanding around the world. I particularly appreciate most of our readers remaining civil and respectful to others. It remains a great honor to serve as the host of such a growing and vibrant community.

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