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.
Please share this article – Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons.
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 01 August
The number following each article is the number of ‘page read hours’ for that article.
27 July 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – Eviction Crisis Looming. The Coronavirus Worsening Globally With Latin America Leading. (22.1) Steven Hansen
A Modern Jubilee As A Cure To The Financial Ills Of The Coronavirus (18.9) Steve Keen
An Erotic Oil Painting, With A Profound Worldview (14.0) Frank Li
Federal Reserve Agency CMBS Purchases Improved Market Functions (13.5) Woojung Park, Julia Gouny, and Haoyang Liu
28 July 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – WHO Says COVID-19 Pandemic Is ‘One Big Wave’ – Not Seasonal. Even With Vaccine, We Will Be Dealing With COVID-19 Forever. (11.9) Steven Hansen
Updating Risk – Reward Ranges, 20July 2020 (11.6) Lance Roberts
Book Review: Too Much and Never Enough (8.4) Frank Li
26 July 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – The Coronavirus Infection Fatality Rate Continues to Trend Down. $1200 Stimulus Payments In The GOP Stimulus Plan. (8.0) Steven Hansen
LIVE: Current Weather And Forecasts Up To 7 Days – Wednesday July 29, 2020 (6.9) Sig Silber
August 2020 Economic Forecast – Some Improvement But The Pandemic Stopping Any Real Recovery (6.7) Steven Hansen
Documentary Of The Week: The Pacific Crest Trail (6.6) John Lounsbury
Documentary Of The Week: James Baldwin And William F. Buckley, 1965 (6.2) John Lounsbury
Did the Romans Create both Christianity and Islam? (5.9) Frank Li
America’s Scariest Charts Updated 25 July 2020 (5.6) Constantin Gurdgiev
The Economic Impact of Whaling (5.5) Matthew Lundgren
3 Questions To Ask Yourself Next Time You See A Graph, Chart, Or Map (5.4) Carson MacPherson-Krutsky
Two Videos on the U.S. vs. China (51) Frank Li
Tie – NOAA Updates The Outlook For August 2020 – Dry West, Wet East. (5.0) Sig Silber
Tie – 29 July 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – One Vaccine Fails Phase III Trial, Another Enters Phase II/III. Russia Claims It Is On Track To Approve COVID-19 Vaccine By Mid-August. (5.0) Steven Hansen
Tie – July 18, 2020: Part I, NOAA Four-Season Forecast – La Nina, Sort of (5.0) Sig Silber
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.
.
