{"id":9143,"date":"2016-09-28T11:38:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2016-09-28T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T21:25:51","slug":"francis-effect-pewsitter-daily-reads-skyrocket-astronomically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=9143","title":{"rendered":"Francis Effect:  PewSitter Daily Reads Skyrocket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why have PewSitter&#8217;s daily reads jumped all of a sudden?\u00a0 They were hovering around 14,000 mid week, but they&#8217;ve practically tripled since September 20th:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9164\" style=\"width: 874px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-pv-9.28.16-box.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9164\" class=\"wp-image-9164 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-pv-9.28.16-box.jpg?resize=580%2C281\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-pv-9.28.16-box.jpg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-pv-9.28.16-box.jpg?resize=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-pv-9.28.16-box.jpg?resize=768%2C372&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Daily reads up over 40,000?<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>PewSitter&#8217;s monthly reads were about 420,000.\u00a0 Annual reads were around 6.2 million, yet they&#8217;ve increased 200k in one week.\u00a0 At this rate they&#8217;ll have over 15 million annual reads this year. \u00a0 They are really, really getting popular!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s even more implausible when you consider the sloping trend in their other reports:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9149\" style=\"width: 909px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-stats-sep-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9149\" class=\"wp-image-9149 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-stats-sep-2016.jpg?resize=580%2C341\" alt=\"pewsitter-stats-sep-2016\" width=\"580\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-stats-sep-2016.jpg?w=899&amp;ssl=1 899w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-stats-sep-2016.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stumblingblock.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pewsitter-stats-sep-2016.jpg?resize=768%2C451&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>In fact, Quantcast statistics show no upward change at all.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>True, Quantcast doesn&#8217;t measure the auto-refresh function, which is still every ten minutes, but 9,700 is much less than 41,000.\u00a0 So what&#8217;s up with their apparently inflated front page reads?<\/p>\n<p>Is it that manufactured <em>Francis Effect?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why have PewSitter&#8217;s daily reads jumped all of a sudden?\u00a0 They were hovering around 14,000 mid week, but they&#8217;ve practically tripled since September 20th: &nbsp; PewSitter&#8217;s monthly reads were about 420,000.\u00a0 Annual reads were around 6.2 million, yet they&#8217;ve increased 200k in one week.\u00a0 At this rate they&#8217;ll have over 15 million annual reads this <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=9143\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[837,1024,1023,19],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catholic-news","tag-page-views","tag-pewsitter","tag-pope-francis"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9180,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/9180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}