The Work of Hundertwasser
I’ve been doing this blog for just over two years now. I write something every day although to be honest, there are a lot of days when content is less than I would hope. But I try to do something everyday just to maintain the discipline. The site recently went over a million hits and gave me cause for a little investigation of where some of those hits came from over the past two years.
By a wide margin, a post on the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser from August of 2009 has been the most popular post. It still receives about 100 hits a day and over 21000 hits overall, a testimony to the great attraction of the late painter’s work.
Urwald Mit Tigern- Henri Rousseau
Several posts on other artists also continue to pull in substantial numbers of hits. One on Henri Rousseau has consistently attracted a large number of views as has one on the wave paintings of Hokusai. Another on the densely textured paintings of Ivan Albright is another consistent favorite among visitors.
One of the posts that also draws a large number of views on a consistent but sporadic basis is one that I did on the ridiculous uproar over Barack Obama’s birth certificate. It will mosey along pulling in a few hits here and there for months then suddenly get 70 or 80 hits a day for a week or so, shadowing the activityof the birther movement at the moment. This amazes me. I still occasionally get comments from some loonies who want to argue the point, almost 18 months after its initial appearance on the blog. I moderate most of them out now, not wanting to continue this absurd argument and refusing to give it credence by engaging in heated debate. I guess it’s just another example that shows how intensely these people refuse to believe that Obama is our president.
It’s always interesting to examine what triggers response in readers and viewers. Whether it’s just a matter of curiosity or whether I will use the info in some way in the future is debatable. I’m just glad folks continue to stop in.
Thanks.
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I did a blog for awhile that drew hundreds of hits based on people searching for the search terms “Jews and rabbits.” It led me to several posts conjecturing about why people would search for these things. It was my most popular set of posts. I have never figured that out.
Jews and rabbits? What an odd combination. Hmm…
Eventhough I quit writing The Planet in January, I still get a few hundred visitors every day. I haven’t had the curiosity to find out what they’re looking for. In fact, I think I’d rather not know.
But congratulations on the millionth hit. Yours is one of the few blogs I read regularly.
Thanks, David.
Congrats Gary! Thanks for your good work.
Thank you, Scott.
>>By a wide margin, a post on the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser from August of 2009 has been the most popular post. It still receives about 100 hits a day and over 21000 hits overall, a testimony to the great attraction of the late painter’s work.<<
I don't pretend to understand how your stats work but isn't it possible it's a testimony to the relative dearth of information about Friedensreich Hundertwasser?
In other words, might you not be serving a relatively large slice of a very small pie?
You've posted about many more famous artists but those are relatively small slices of a very large pie.
Perhaps.