You know I like useless statistics, right? So here are some: Comparing the ranking of Perl, Python, Ruby, and PHP related web sites. Once every few months I check the Alexa ranking of a bunch of sites that interest me on some level. Actually I track more than what you can see here, but this will be interesting to you. I promise. (na means either I have not checked the site or Alexa did not give me an answer for that site.) It is interesting to see the movements. PHP PHP is falling! PHP is falling! 5 Aug 2012 5 Mar 2013 30 Apr 2013 php.net 251 330 347 drupal.org 491 664 683 Sure, but if we compare to the web sites of the other languages... Python 5 Aug 2012 5 Mar 2013 30 Apr 2013 python.org 4,426 4,344 4,696 djangoproject.com 18,171 13,571 16,126 learnpythonthehardway.org 70,078 80,942 61,412 Ruby Looking at the numbers of Railscasts while thinking I'd like to copy that model. Wow, that must be a lot of traffic. Is there enough interest in Perl for that? Can I generate more interest? 5 Aug 2012 5 Mar 2013 30 Apr 2013 rubyonrails.org 11,006 12,339 13,020 railscasts.com na na 14,424 ruby-lang.org 24,816 30,553 31,229 rubyinside.com 78,906 122,712 131,011 Weekly newsletters These are not that interesting numbers as probably most people read the newsletter in their mail client and don't visit the site. (In the case of the Perl Weekly about 200 people visit the site on the day when the newsletter is publish out of the 4,400 subscribers. 5 Aug 2012 5 Mar 2013 30 Apr 2013 web-design-weekly.com 1,100,849 229,938 255,905 javascriptweekly.com 575,585 329,414 358,386 html5weekly.com 937,709 444,023 542,049 rubyweekly.com 1,214,697 1,065,171 1,085,142 pycoders.com na na 1,144,740 pythonweekly.com 1,571,572 1,574,238 1,701,926 perlweekly.com 3,560,055 1,792,273 1,893,349 nosqlweekly.com 1,369,576 4,976,920 3,831,830 devopsweekly.com 14,004,560 7,055,353 4,114,236 Web frameworks Dancer has the 'advantage' that even people looking for rap-dancers will find them. Mojolicious switched domains a few months ago. 5 Aug 2012 5 Mar 2013 30 Apr 2013 perldancer.org 474,771 492,320 564,596 mojolicious.org 3,777,567 na na mojolicio.us na 714,789 601,019 mojocast.com na na 2,138,888 catalystframework.org 427,282 684,745 623,749 Perl cpan.org is falling as Meta CPAN receives a growing part of the traffic. More troubling that perl.org has also declined. What took its place? There are a number of Perl-related sites with very outdated content that get a ton of traffic. I hope that soon the Perl Maven site will be able to take a large chunk of their traffic. 5 Aug 2012 5 Mar 2013 30 Apr 2013 cpan.org 8,874 12,220 13,059 perl.org 13,555 19,792 20,148 perlmonks.org 19,100 23,061 22,657 metacpan.org 204,350 124,979 129,363 perl.com 167,090 196,762 187,114 perlmeme.org na 263,032 268,409 www.perlfect.com na 298,641 348,442 perlmaven.com 2,637,818 487,529 362,104 pm.org 309,987 366,302 367,905 template-toolkit.org 359,903 478,507 415,943 cpantesters.org 586,727 386,124 424,316 strawberryperl.com 359,827 509,310 478,935 modernperlbooks.com 495,533 533,520 599,331 perlide.org 1,144,312 855,267 780,515 perl-community.de 363,020 592,875 821,008 dbperl.com 890,748 774,351 927,242 perlbuzz.com 1,274,377 1,240,728 1,172,940 perl-begin.org 1,372,709 1,143,249 1,354,824 pragmaticperl.com na 2,565,785 1,386,332 perl-tutorial.org na 1,979,826 1,869,652 dwimperl.com 10,734,727 2,370,691 1,978,880 perl101.org na 1,862,320 2,017,408 perltraining.com.au 2,015,297 1,532,729 2,101,143 perlhacks.com 4,929,876 2,225,588 2,115,248 perlnews.org 5,281,817 2,948,156 2,211,814 perlcabal.org 5,461,751 3,204,732 2,503,575 perltutorial.org 1,804,595 1,844,660 2,833,153 learning-perl.com 13,824,173 4,712,749 3,784,318 effectiveperlprogramming.com 2,183,984 2,501,540 4,366,916 perl-magazin.de 6,615,032 na 22,487,241 programmingperl.org 9,444,732 na na Perl Organizations and YAPCs 5 Aug 2012 5 Mar 2013 30 Apr 2013 perlfoundation.org 816,360 451,170 561,848 yapc.eu na na 1,027,648 yapcna.org 2,931,843 2,557,147 1,107,215 enlightenedperl.org 1,536,819 1,615,668 1,534,212 japan.perlassociation.org 965,810 2,160,506 2,229,071 yapcasia.org na na 2,620,887 yapceurope.org 2,956,875 5,738,599 4,326,208 Perl 6 I put these separately to make it easier to see them. 5 Aug 2012 5 Mar 2013 30 Apr 2013 perl6.org 1,160,144 793,479 879,484 parrot.org 1,188,783 1,297,765 965,124 rakudo.org 1,770,988 1,124,141 1,361,650 perl6advent.wordpress.com 13,109,469 2,380,520 3,759,576 Perl Maven After getting feedback to my questions, I am going to merge the Perl 5 Maven site into the Perl Maven site. As the Alexa numbers are 3-month averages, This means that ranking of the Perl 5 Maven site will drop off the earth in 3 month, and the Perl Maven site will slowly advance. As a game for myself I aim to reach the same Alexa position within 2 months. Let's see if I can put enough interesting content out on the Perl Maven site to achieve that? 5 Aug 2012 5 Mar 2013 30 Apr 2013 perl5maven.com 2,637,818 487,529 362,104 perl6maven.com 2,476,882 5,360,813 4,216,918 perlmaven.com na 19,000,000 5,337,012 Is your favorite site missing from here? Let me know, so I won't miss it next time!