One thing I once believed was that I just needed to be able to
convince one person I was right, and that could start things as that
person could help and maybe then we could convince more people and
it'd go on from there.

Over five years since I found a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with
my prime counting function old news, and with an invention of my own
factoring method behind me, I understand now that the problem is much
more difficult, so I'm working at puzzling through some of the more
recent bizarre things, like web stats.

For instance, do a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof" and I should be in the top 20 search results.

I've long looked at search engine results to attempt to measure
influence, and they have long been bizarre, like at times my research
would take over some search string that I thought meant that maybe I
was getting somewhere, but years keep passing and other measures
indicate no influence AT ALL.

Recently I got "quantified" so I can put up a link so that others can
see what I mean:

http://www.quantcast.com/p-89GNpWgpweHjg

Hopefully that will work.

My world wide reach for my blogs is 788 pageviews per month globally
with most of my readers outside of the US, and the unique visitor
count comes out to about 8 people per day for my three blogs.

Eight people per day, and I'm probably one of them. Very
underwhelming.

Quite simply, the data indicates that I am mostly ignored, and have no
significant web presence at all.

But do a web search on any number of search strings related to what is
on my blogs, from math to music to current event, and they come up
highly. My no-math, commentary blog took over the number one spot
under its name on both Yahoo! and Google months ago, but statistics
say it gets visited by maybe 2 people per day, and yes, I am one of
them!

That data is consistent with Google Analytics which says almost
exactly the same thing, and I went to Quantcast to get a second
opinion, as I puzzle this situation out.

Quite simply, I have two contradictory data streams.

One tells me that no one is interested in what I have to say.

The other says I'm one of the most dominant players on the web in the
world across multiple subject lines from economics to politics, to
yes, a plot idea for a Superman movie, which is my favorite example.

Contradictions do not really exist. They are mirages.

There is always an underlying logical answer.

So what is it?


James Harris

One thing I once believed was that I just needed to be able to
convince one person I was right, and that could start things as that
person could help and maybe then we could convince more people and
it'd go on from there.

Over five years since I found a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with
my prime counting function old news, and with an invention of my own
factoring method behind me, I understand now that the problem is much
more difficult, so I'm working at puzzling through some of the more
recent bizarre things, like web stats.

For instance, do a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof" and I should be in the top 20 search results.

I've long looked at search engine results to attempt to measure
influence, and they have long been bizarre, like at times my research
would take over some search string that I thought meant that maybe I
was getting somewhere, but years keep passing and other measures
indicate no influence AT ALL.

Recently I got "quantified" so I can put up a link so that others can
see what I mean:

http://www.quantcast.com/p-89GNpWgpweHjg

Hopefully that will work.

My world wide reach for my blogs is 788 pageviews per month globally
with most of my readers outside of the US, and the unique visitor
count comes out to about 8 people per day for my three blogs.

Eight people per day, and I'm probably one of them. Very
underwhelming.

Quite simply, the data indicates that I am mostly ignored, and have no
significant web presence at all.

But do a web search on any number of search strings related to what is
on my blogs, from math to music to current event, and they come up
highly. My no-math, commentary blog took over the number one spot
under its name on both Yahoo! and Google months ago, but statistics
say it gets visited by maybe 2 people per day, and yes, I am one of
them!

That data is consistent with Google Analytics which says almost
exactly the same thing, and I went to Quantcast to get a second
opinion, as I puzzle this situation out.

Quite simply, I have two contradictory data streams.

One tells me that no one is interested in what I have to say.

The other says I'm one of the most dominant players on the web in the
world across multiple subject lines from economics to politics, to
yes, a plot idea for a Superman movie, which is my favorite example.

Contradictions do not really exist. They are mirages.

There is always an underlying logical answer.

So what is it?


James Harris

Over five years since I found a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with
my prime counting function old news, and with an invention of my own
factoring method behind me, I understand now that the problem is much
more difficult, so I'm working at puzzling through some of the more
recent bizarre things, like web stats.

"JSH" <jst...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:9a6540f6-04d2-4cd5-aef8-327afdbcef62@p39g2000prm.googlegroups.com...



One thing I once believed was that I just needed to be able to
convince one person I was right, and that could start things as that
person could help and maybe then we could convince more people and
it'd go on from there.

Over five years since I found a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with
my prime counting function old news, and with an invention of my own
factoring method behind me, I understand now that the problem is much
more difficult, so I'm working at puzzling through some of the more
recent bizarre things, like web stats.

For instance, do a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof" and I should be in the top 20 search results.

I've long looked at search engine results to attempt to measure
influence, and they have long been bizarre, like at times my research
would take over some search string that I thought meant that maybe I
was getting somewhere, but years keep passing and other measures
indicate no influence AT ALL.

Recently I got "quantified" so I can put up a link so that others can
see what I mean:

http://www.quantcast.com/p-89GNpWgpweHjg

Hopefully that will work.

My world wide reach for my blogs is 788 pageviews per month globally
with most of my readers outside of the US, and the unique visitor
count comes out to about 8 people per day for my three blogs.

Eight people per day, and I'm probably one of them. Very
underwhelming.

Quite simply, the data indicates that I am mostly ignored, and have no
significant web presence at all.

But do a web search on any number of search strings related to what is
on my blogs, from math to music to current event, and they come up
highly. My no-math, commentary blog took over the number one spot
under its name on both Yahoo! and Google months ago, but statistics
say it gets visited by maybe 2 people per day, and yes, I am one of
them!

That data is consistent with Google Analytics which says almost
exactly the same thing, and I went to Quantcast to get a second
opinion, as I puzzle this situation out.

Quite simply, I have two contradictory data streams.

One tells me that no one is interested in what I have to say.

The other says I'm one of the most dominant players on the web in the
world across multiple subject lines from economics to politics, to
yes, a plot idea for a Superman movie, which is my favorite example.

Contradictions do not really exist. They are mirages.

There is always an underlying logical answer.

So what is it?

James Harris

The stats game is very interesting with such a large disparity, there are
some free counters out there you may be able to put on your pages, Google or
Quantcast could easily be generating false data. Why does Quantcast not
change scale on the bottom when you click on weekly or monthly?
The counter on your page would have to send a word to Quantcast to update
its counters for your page(?). Also they must be recording IP via the visit
frequency graph. I am not sure what "reach%" means either.
There are many other counters out there, a good experiment would be to set
up several monitoring the same pages, the differences would be in how their
SW works.

One thing I once believed was that I just needed to be able to
convince one person I was right, and that could start things as that
person could help and maybe then we could convince more people and
it'd go on from there.

Over five years since I found a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with
my prime counting function old news, and with an invention of my own
factoring method behind me, I understand now that the problem is much
more difficult, so I'm working at puzzling through some of the more
recent bizarre things, like web stats.

For instance, do a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof" and I should be in the top 20 search results.

I've long looked at search engine results to attempt to measure
influence, and they have long been bizarre, like at times my research
would take over some search string that I thought meant that maybe I
was getting somewhere, but years keep passing and other measures
indicate no influence AT ALL.

Recently I got "quantified" so I can put up a link so that others can
see what I mean:

http://www.quantcast.com/p-89GNpWgpweHjg

Hopefully that will work.

My world wide reach for my blogs is 788 pageviews per month globally
with most of my readers outside of the US, and the unique visitor
count comes out to about 8 people per day for my three blogs.

Eight people per day, and I'm probably one of them. Very
underwhelming.

Quite simply, the data indicates that I am mostly ignored, and have no
significant web presence at all.

But do a web search on any number of search strings related to what is
on my blogs, from math to music to current event, and they come up
highly. My no-math, commentary blog took over the number one spot
under its name on both Yahoo! and Google months ago, but statistics
say it gets visited by maybe 2 people per day, and yes, I am one of
them!

That data is consistent with Google Analytics which says almost
exactly the same thing, and I went to Quantcast to get a second
opinion, as I puzzle this situation out.

Quite simply, I have two contradictory data streams.

One tells me that no one is interested in what I have to say.

The other says I'm one of the most dominant players on the web in the
world across multiple subject lines from economics to politics, to
yes, a plot idea for a Superman movie, which is my favorite example.

Contradictions do not really exist. They are mirages.

There is always an underlying logical answer.

So what is it?

James Harris

One thing I once believed was that I just needed to be able to
convince one person I was right, and that could start things as that
person could help and maybe then we could convince more people and
it'd go on from there.

Over five years since I found a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with
my prime counting function old news, and with an invention of my own
factoring method behind me, I understand now that the problem is much
more difficult, so I'm working at puzzling through some of the more
recent bizarre things, like web stats.

For instance, do a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof" and I should be in the top 20 search results.

I've long looked at search engine results to attempt to measure
influence, and they have long been bizarre, like at times my research
would take over some search string that I thought meant that maybe I
was getting somewhere, but years keep passing and other measures
indicate no influence AT ALL.

Recently I got "quantified" so I can put up a link so that others can
see what I mean:

http://www.quantcast.com/p-89GNpWgpweHjg

Hopefully that will work.

My world wide reach for my blogs is 788 pageviews per month globally
with most of my readers outside of the US, and the unique visitor
count comes out to about 8 people per day for my three blogs.

Eight people per day, and I'm probably one of them. Very
underwhelming.

Quite simply, the data indicates that I am mostly ignored, and have no
significant web presence at all.

But do a web search on any number of search strings related to what is
on my blogs, from math to music to current event, and they come up
highly. My no-math, commentary blog took over the number one spot
under its name on both Yahoo! and Google months ago, but statistics
say it gets visited by maybe 2 people per day, and yes, I am one of
them!

That data is consistent with Google Analytics which says almost
exactly the same thing, and I went to Quantcast to get a second
opinion, as I puzzle this situation out.

Quite simply, I have two contradictory data streams.

One tells me that no one is interested in what I have to say.

The other says I'm one of the most dominant players on the web in the
world across multiple subject lines from economics to politics, to
yes, a plot idea for a Superman movie, which is my favorite example.

Contradictions do not really exist. They are mirages.

There is always an underlying logical answer.

So what is it?


James Harris

On Apr 29, 6:46 am, "Krieg Suden" <dd...@yahoo.com> wrote:
"JSH" <jst...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:9a6540f6-04d2-4cd5-aef8-327afdbcef62@p39g2000prm.googlegroups.com...



One thing I once believed was that I just needed to be able to
convince one person I was right, and that could start things as that
person could help and maybe then we could convince more people and
it'd go on from there.

Over five years since I found a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with
my prime counting function old news, and with an invention of my own
factoring method behind me, I understand now that the problem is much
more difficult, so I'm working at puzzling through some of the more
recent bizarre things, like web stats.

For instance, do a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof" and I should be in the top 20 search results.

I've long looked at search engine results to attempt to measure
influence, and they have long been bizarre, like at times my research
would take over some search string that I thought meant that maybe I
was getting somewhere, but years keep passing and other measures
indicate no influence AT ALL.

Recently I got "quantified" so I can put up a link so that others can
see what I mean:

http://www.quantcast.com/p-89GNpWgpweHjg

Hopefully that will work.

My world wide reach for my blogs is 788 pageviews per month globally
with most of my readers outside of the US, and the unique visitor
count comes out to about 8 people per day for my three blogs.

Eight people per day, and I'm probably one of them. Very
underwhelming.

Quite simply, the data indicates that I am mostly ignored, and have no
significant web presence at all.

But do a web search on any number of search strings related to what is
on my blogs, from math to music to current event, and they come up
highly. My no-math, commentary blog took over the number one spot
under its name on both Yahoo! and Google months ago, but statistics
say it gets visited by maybe 2 people per day, and yes, I am one of
them!

That data is consistent with Google Analytics which says almost
exactly the same thing, and I went to Quantcast to get a second
opinion, as I puzzle this situation out.

Quite simply, I have two contradictory data streams.

One tells me that no one is interested in what I have to say.

The other says I'm one of the most dominant players on the web in the
world across multiple subject lines from economics to politics, to
yes, a plot idea for a Superman movie, which is my favorite example.

Contradictions do not really exist. They are mirages.

There is always an underlying logical answer.

So what is it?

James Harris

The stats game is very interesting with such a large disparity, there are
some free counters out there you may be able to put on your pages, Google
or
Quantcast could easily be generating false data. Why does Quantcast not
change scale on the bottom when you click on weekly or monthly?
The counter on your page would have to send a word to Quantcast to update
its counters for your page(?). Also they must be recording IP via the
visit
frequency graph. I am not sure what "reach%" means either.
There are many other counters out there, a good experiment would be to
set
up several monitoring the same pages, the differences would be in how
their
SW works.

Good advice. So far I have Google Analytics and Quantcast, and I
mentioned Quantcast because they're open and open source so I can
easily direct others to the statistics.

I keep getting weird data out of these things though, where my
favorite on Google Analytics was the day I had 10 pageloads with 0
visitors on one of my blogs.

So how do 0 visitors do 10 pageloads?

But getting the data right is more than academics. The statistics
coming from Google Analytics and Quantcast track closely with those
that AdSense gives me, so it's, yup, also about money.

Anyone have a good experience with web stats? Or any further insights
on them?

Remember I'm trying to resolve contradictions here as do that Google
search on "definition of mathematical proof" and you should get in the
top 20 a page on my math blog which the web stats all say almost NEVER
gets visited.

Almost never.


James Harris

One tells me that no one is interested in what I have to say.

The other says I'm one of the most dominant players on the web in the
world across multiple subject lines from economics to politics, to
yes, a plot idea for a Superman movie, which is my favorite example.

Contradictions do not really exist. They are mirages.

There is always an underlying logical answer.

So what is it?

Wouldn't you have to say though that the bottom line of all this
"seeking of attention" is nothing more than a symptom of your
Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

I know, by me responding with this post, I'm just feeding your disorder,
but my main concern here is to shine some light on what's really going
on with this new-found interest in statistics of yours, and to set the
facts straight for those that might not be aware of your disorder.

"JSH" <jst...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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On Apr 29, 7:59 am, Joel Davison <jo...@plainearth.net> wrote:
Wouldn't you have to say though that the bottom line of all this
"seeking of attention" is nothing more than a symptom of your
Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

I know, by me responding with this post, I'm just feeding your disorder,
but my main concern here is to shine some light on what's really going
on with this new-found interest in statistics of yours, and to set the
facts straight for those that might not be aware of your disorder.

There is no new interest in statistics. I've been monitoring them for
months; years in some areas.

The issue here is the bizarrely high rankings given to webpages of
mine where statistics show little to no activity.

Like I just did a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof". My blog page with my definition of mathematical proof came up
second. It shows as having received 119 pagevies since January 1st of
this year according to Google Analytics.

And then I did a search on: Superman plot idea

I put it that way to emphasize that you don't use quotes. That came
up number one in Google, though at least it doesn't come up at all in
Yahoo!

But do a search on: class viewer

And I get number one in Google and number two in Yahoo! for my open
source project called by that name.

Its statistics have been available for years on SourceForge.

To make it clear that I'm puzzled by the high rankings and not the
number of hits, I'll point out that a couple of years ago when I first
started puzzling over this odd situation, I actually looked directly
at hits coming to my page for my open source project as SourceForge
allows project administrators to do that, and the hit count was right
in line with the reported statistics.

So yes, it's bugging me. Why in the hell do pages of mine rank so
highly when the hit counts and linkages to those pages indicate very
few people are reading them?

For those wondering if there was a bump from these postings, I just
looked and didn't see any.

Oh, here's a tidbit from the statistics though: crank.net has a page
ripping on me--a pure hate page slamming me as a crank and crackpot--
which links back to my math blog. Google Analytics says that it
provides 2.55% of my blog hits. Just in case you were wondering...

More trivia, the keyword that provides 3% of my blog hits according to
the same source is "fermat".

The top keyword is "mymath" providing 45.63%. I have 1 hit each over
the last month for the following keywords:

rsa examples
partial difference equation
prime distribution
arguing math
fake math
goldbach news
goldbach conjecture

According to Google Analytics my math blog was visited over the last
month by people from 40 countries, of which Russia and China are
conspicuously absent.

now that is strange as most of countries do not have a high density of
comuputers as the USA.

What were the smaller countries? or did they truncate the list?

Perhaps they are counting web crawlers, web spiders as well?
google has a mess of them out all the time.

On Apr 29, 7:59 am, Joel Davison <jo...@plainearth.net> wrote:
Wouldn't you have to say though that the bottom line of all this
"seeking of attention" is nothing more than a symptom of your
Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

I know, by me responding with this post, I'm just feeding your disorder,
but my main concern here is to shine some light on what's really going
on with this new-found interest in statistics of yours, and to set the
facts straight for those that might not be aware of your disorder.

There is no new interest in statistics. I've been monitoring them for
months; years in some areas.

The issue here is the bizarrely high rankings given to webpages of
mine where statistics show little to no activity.

Like I just did a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof". My blog page with my definition of mathematical proof came up
second. It shows as having received 119 pagevies since January 1st of
this year according to Google Analytics.

And then I did a search on: Superman plot idea

I put it that way to emphasize that you don't use quotes. That came
up number one in Google, though at least it doesn't come up at all in
Yahoo!

But do a search on: class viewer

And I get number one in Google and number two in Yahoo! for my open
source project called by that name.

Its statistics have been available for years on SourceForge.

To make it clear that I'm puzzled by the high rankings and not the
number of hits, I'll point out that a couple of years ago when I first
started puzzling over this odd situation, I actually looked directly
at hits coming to my page for my open source project as SourceForge
allows project administrators to do that, and the hit count was right
in line with the reported statistics.

So yes, it's bugging me. Why in the hell do pages of mine rank so
highly when the hit counts and linkages to those pages indicate very
few people are reading them?

For those wondering if there was a bump from these postings, I just
looked and didn't see any.

Oh, here's a tidbit from the statistics though: crank.net has a page
ripping on me--a pure hate page slamming me as a crank and crackpot--
which links back to my math blog. Google Analytics says that it
provides 2.55% of my blog hits. Just in case you were wondering...

More trivia, the keyword that provides 3% of my blog hits according to
the same source is "fermat".

The top keyword is "mymath" providing 45.63%. I have 1 hit each over
the last month for the following keywords:

rsa examples
partial difference equation
prime distribution
arguing math
fake math
goldbach news
goldbach conjecture

According to Google Analytics my math blog was visited over the last
month by people from 40 countries, of which Russia and China are
conspicuously absent.

The United Kingdom provided 450 visits, making it the most visiting,
while my own country the United States came in second with 377 visits,
over the last month. Since January 1st of this year it has been
visited by people from 69 countries. With 1,858 visits from the UK
and coming in second the US with 1,827 visits.

Hey, guess the Brits are more interested than Yanks in my math.


James Harris

JSH wrote:
On Apr 29, 7:59 am, Joel Davison <jo...@plainearth.net> wrote:
Wouldn't you have to say though that the bottom line of all this
"seeking of attention" is nothing more than a symptom of your
Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

I know, by me responding with this post, I'm just feeding your disorder,
but my main concern here is to shine some light on what's really going
on with this new-found interest in statistics of yours, and to set the
facts straight for those that might not be aware of your disorder.

There is no new interest in statistics. I've been monitoring them for
months; years in some areas.

Well, I wasn't really expecting you to admit to having NPD.

In fact, you don't have to. Anybody can see from your posts, both past
and present, that you are driven by a Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

On Apr 29, 7:59 am, Joel Davison <jo...@plainearth.net> wrote:
Wouldn't you have to say though that the bottom line of all this
"seeking of attention" is nothing more than a symptom of your
Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

I know, by me responding with this post, I'm just feeding your disorder,
but my main concern here is to shine some light on what's really going
on with this new-found interest in statistics of yours, and to set the
facts straight for those that might not be aware of your disorder.

There is no new interest in statistics. I've been monitoring them for
months; years in some areas.