This blog went live (initially as 9thlevelireland. wordpress.com) on 24 August 2008. Since then there have been 35,806 posts, and it has been viewed 864,346 times. For the last year: most (77%) of the traffic world-wide was from Ireland (65% of Irish traffic was from the Dublin area, 8% from Cork, 7% from Galway, and 5% from Sligo). The UK accounts for 7% of world-wide traffic, the US for 5%. Most of the traffic is from desktops, though 18% is from mobiles and 11% from tablets. The most popular browser was Chrome (27%), though not far behind were Safari (22%), Firefox (20%) and IE (17%).
The most-viewed posts for the last year were:
- Sunday Times 2013 University League Table Headlines
- UCD Ball 2013 to be held on campus following Gardaí negotiations
- Thousands more public servants targeted for redundancy
- UCD medical school chief quits €241,000 job for US
- How would a merged TCD/UCD be ranked internationally?
- The Dissertation Can No Longer Be Defended
- ‘My Adviser Stole My Research’
- An Embarrassing Rant by the Minister for Research and Innovation
- Dear brilliant students: Please consider not doing a PhD
- What I’m really thinking: the university lecturer
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Steve, thanks so much for this blog. I am a reader of just over a year. It makes it so easy to keep up on academic news from home and abroad.
Keep up the good work!
Eugene Gath (UL)