Wikipedia:WikiProject Objectivism/Traffic analysis

The table below summarizes the average monthly traffic for pages related to WikiProject Objectivism. See notes below the table for further information.

Traffic table
Averages are based on data from the Wikipedia page view statistics at stats.grok.se for the months from May 2009 to July 2010. The collection of data by this service is sometimes spotty, so the absolute numbers of page views should not be taken as definitive. However, the inconsistencies in data collection should not significantly change the relative volumes for the project's pages.

Data was collected for articles, categories, books and portals associated with the project, based on the presence of a project banner on the associated talk page. Data was not collected for traffic to talk pages, templates or other pages.

The 'M' column indicates "marginal" pages for the project's traffic analysis: pages where it is likely that most of their traffic has nothing to do with the subject's relationship to Objectivism. Pages flagged as marginal are excluded from the "adjusted" values shown in the last four columns.

Project assessment information (Importance and Quality) are as of September 24, 2010.

Pages that were previously associated with the project but deleted or disassociated prior to the start of data collection (in May 2010) are not included. Pages that were deleted after data was collected for them are included.

Additional details, including the monthly numbers for each article, can be obtained from, who performed the data collection and initial analysis.

Traffic concentration
Although there are 99 pages in the analysis, the traffic is concentrated in a small number of articles:
 * Top 10 = 85.2%
 * Top 10 adjusted = 88.7%
 * Top 20 = 92.5%
 * Top 20 adjusted = 93.8%

Because of this concentration of traffic, the project could improve the experience of the vast majority of its readers by improving a relatively small subset of articles.

Importance vs. traffic
Most of the importance rankings seem reasonable in comparison to the pages' traffic, with some exceptions. Leaving aside the "marginal" articles, most of the top 20 traffic pages are assessed as Top or High importance. The most glaring exception is The Fountainhead (film), which has no importance assessment for the project despite being the eighth-ranked for adjusted traffic. Similarly, most Top-importance pages are in the adjusted top 20 for traffic. The clear exception here is Objectivist theory of value, which is middle of the pack in terms of page views. Although there is no necessary relationship between traffic and importance, some of the "mismatches" between the two may deserve re-assessment.

Quality vs. traffic
With no FAs, two GAs and five B-class articles, the project's articles are mostly of lower-end assessed quality. On the positive side, the higher-quality articles are concentrated on the high end for traffic, with the highest traffic article (Ayn Rand) assessed as GA. Unfortunately, the second highest traffic article (Atlas Shrugged) is C-quality, as are three other articles in the adjusted top 10 for traffic. Move past the top 10 and the assessments are quickly dominated by the Start and Stub class ratings that are common for the project. The bottom of the traffic rankings are mostly pages without quality assessments (categories, pages delete during the analysis, etc.). Only one article below the adjusted top 10 for traffic manages to pull a B-class quality assessment (Journals of Ayn Rand).