Written by Econintersect
We publish a report each week presenting a list of the articles Google Analytics reports as being the most read. Last week’s report is here. We think that does not necessarily reflect how much “value” readers have obtained from what we publish. So we are offering a second listing which combines the number of readers for each article with the average amount of time spent reading by each.
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Before presenting this new ranking, let us explain our thinking. If one article has 500 page reads with an average time for each of one minute we suggest that another article with 100 page reads and an average time for each of 5 minutes might have an equivalent “value”: 500 page read minutes.
This measurement does not attempt to quantify the value readers received. The 500 reading an average of 1 minute each may perceive much more personal value for their individual minutes than do the 100 who each spent 5 minutes. What this measurement of ‘page read minutes’ directly measures is the effective reader engagement by each article. Rather than “value” we might better say “engagement” or “used”.
After some consideration we have elected to try the term “usefulness” and selected the term “useful” for the title of the list.
The Most Useful Articles Week Ending 02 May
The number following each article is the number of ‘page read hours’ for that article.
Major League Baseball Finances: What The Numbers Tell Us (76.1) Elliott Morss
LIVE: Current Weather And Forecasts Up To 7 Days – Friday May 1 2020 (28.6) Sig Silber
Covid-19: Have We Over-Reacted? (24.4) Frank Li
26 April 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – A Bad Day For New Cases and Deaths (22.0) Steven Hansen
Steve Keen: Economists Refuse To Believe Banks, Debt And Money Are Important (17.6) Econintersect
Time To Look At The Big Picture (14.8) Jim Welsh
27 April 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – Was New York Hit By A Deadlier Coronavirus Strain? (14.1) Steven Hansen
Covid-19: America vs. Its President (16.6) Frank Li
The Coming Battle For The COVID-19 Narrative (13.1) Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin
Coronavirus And Economic Interdependence (11.5) CarmineGorga
01 May 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – Will The U.S. Have Two More Years Of Coronavirus Misery? (10.4) Steven Hansen
25 April 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – The Curve Has Bent But There Is Much To Learn About Stopping The Pandemic (9.9) Steven Hansen
29 April 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – A New Drug To Stem Rising Death Toll? (9.7) Steven Hansen
Coronavirus Disease News 25April 2020 (8.8) rjs
Documentary Of The Week: Varoufakis Interviews Stephanie Kelton (8.0) John Lounsbury
Sclerotic America (7.5) John Furlan
May 2020 Economic Forecast Now In Coronavirus Contraction (7.3) Steven Hansen
‘Reopen’ Protest Movement Created, Boosted By Fake Grassroots Tactics (7.21) Marc Ambinder
China vs. America: Communism vs. Democracy (7.20) Frank Li
Adam Smith vs. Karl Marx (7.0) Frank Li
The above list penalizes articles which are quickly read and include videos that are watched on YouTube. The introduction and link to YouTube may take 30 seconds or less and then our reader may stay 5, 10, 20 minutes or longer with the video – this measurement gives no credit for that video time.
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