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Our own counter records page opens and finishes: the address leaves, plus one tenth-of-the-text figure. No cookies, no outside trackers, your IP is not stored, Do Not Track is honoured. How to check that

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The portal lives on donations, paid consultations and requested write-ups, and on Workbench sales.

There are no plans to make the courses paid.

Digitable · Data

Portal statistics

How much is here

Articles
1,167
Narrated end to end
70 of 1,167
Hours of audio
23

Counted by the portal build from the repository: narrated end to end means audio on every paragraph, the hours are their durations summed and rounded down.

How many come here

Views in 7 days
Visitors in 7 days
Views all time
Visitors all time

Taken by the hourly pass over the web server logs, analytics/activity.json; bot requests are dropped by user agent.

How much of it is read

Views
Articles with any views
Read-depth observations
Week over week
Mean share of text read
Reached the end of the text
Most often abandoned

Taken by the backend counter, api/analytics. It is not the counter behind the visits above: there is no way to add the two up.

Read most often

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Corpus map

A row is a catalogue stage, a cell is a track: the number and the colour are hours of reading in it.

Hours of reading per track: under 2 2 to 4 4 to 5 5 to 6 6 to 7 7 and more

The map holds 71 catalogue tracks and 1,093 articles out of 1,167; the other 74 are the blog, theses and examples, not track chapters. The hours sum the reading estimates of THIS edition, so the English map shows the size of the translation rather than the size of the corpus.

What gets read

Articles with views: reads, mean share read and the date last opened
Article Reads out of views Mean share of text read Last opened

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How it is counted

A view is a page that was opened; a read is a visit whose exit beacon arrived. The unit behind both is a visit, not a person.

The reporting threshold

A mean or a share is printed from 20 observations per article, the abandonment point from 30. Below the threshold you get the count of observations.

An estimate from browser and network signals: one person may be counted several times, several people once. «All time» runs from the first record in the logs.

What this method cannot tell you

Exact MAU and number of people
Unknown. There is only a visitor estimate from browser and network signals: it is computed in memory, while the signals and their hashes are not written to public data.
Whether a person read or scrolled
Unknown. What is measured is the scroll position reached: someone who scrolled quickly to the end looks exactly like someone who read it.
How long they read
Deliberately not counted: depth answers «do they read it through», while time is ruined by a single tab left open overnight.
Readers without JavaScript
Invisible in reads and in views alike: the beacon runs as a script. The same holds for DNT: 1 — the refusal to be tracked is honoured on the server.
Those who looked away and came back to finish
Counted with a downward bias: the beacon leaves on the first time the page is hidden, and a second one would count the read twice. The summary errs towards «they read worse».

Where readers stop, per article and per tenth of the text: the reading summary.