Recently Google released the very handy Webmaster Tools app, with which you can see how many links to pages there are, plus quite a few other goodies. This allowed me to create a Top Ten list of the most popular pages on this site, as measured by incoming links.
In conclusion, it seems that most readers of QuirksMode.org like those pages best that clarify a simple concept, like conditional comments or tableless forms, even though I myself consider these pages secondary. The most striking feature of the Top Ten is that many pages I consider important aren't even mentioned, such as the W3C DOM Compatibility Tables, the JavaScript Table of Contents, my nifty DOM scripts or intriguing QuirksBlog entries.
So be it. My readers have spoken.
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2 Posted by Tanny O'Haley on 14 February 2007 | Permalink
I have been using Quirksmode.org for several years now. I find that your javascript information very helpful. Please keep writing what is of interest to you.
3 Posted by Jasja on 14 February 2007 | Permalink
Interesting to see these results.
I think the issue here is the interest of the general public. A much bigger group (not just the regular quirksmode.org readers) are interested in Css related articles, and I think this explains the backlink popularity.
4 Posted by ppk on 16 February 2007 | Permalink
I'm not going to change my writing in any way; I've always written about stuff because it interests me, not because there's a huge demand for it.
I was just intrigued by the gap between my perception and the average of my readers' perceptions. And no, I'm not frustrated in any way; even the pages that don't figure in the Top Ten are still well visited.
5 Posted by Ralph on 17 February 2007 | Permalink
I agree, I'm surprised myself. I didn't even knew most of the pages listed there (and I've also be reading QirksMode for a couple of years now) --although, I didn't knew you had a blog until a couple of months ago, so where does that leave me? :)
What I find more useful are the compatibility tables, I always go back to them when I need to decide on how to solve a new problem, or even once that I solved it, then I see you did it in a different way and I have to double-check what I've done (I usually find out it also works, fortunately).
I guess everything is due to the way search engines work. People take you seriously, hence a lot of links come to this site, the engines give a high rank and index all the contents, so when looking for "Javascript whatever" your site is often (or always?) in the first page of results. Ever since I noticed this, when looking for something I directly write "site:quirksmode.org whatever" :)
By the way, if you actually look for the text above, your site is on the second page (on a 10 results-per-page base)
1 Posted by Grey on 12 February 2007 | Permalink
I think the DOM Compatibility tables are very, very important. If you run into problems browser-wise (or are just new to the concept), they are the best resource you can find.
The only "problem" I see with them is that they represent your own opinion of what browsers should be able to do and not W3C's (for the objects/properties/methods concerned). Therefore one has to make up his mind himself (i.e. one has to know which behaviour is "correct" and which of all those one thinks is the right way).
I think you're often right with your rating, but still.
Don't know what went wrong with the quirksblog entries, though. All link to individual articles should add up to more than the other stuff !?
I still think the CSS articles are important, though (sorry) ;)
My question is: Does this entry mean you will change things according to this new "truth" or did you just want to get rid of some frustration (or both)?