Posts at Uncommon Descent

Here are the posts and comments which Uncommon Descent received for each month from Apr 2005 until Dec 2018. The area of the circles is proportional to the number of views those posts gathered until mid-February 2019 (and most probably starting sometimes in 2011...) The years can be seen more clearly in the faceted view:

Views, Comments, and Articles per Year

Year	Articles	Comments	Views
2005	600	9000	125000
2006	1100	23000	274000
2007	900	23000	527000
2008	800	23000	413000
2009	900	41000	446000
2010	900	25000	359000
2011	2900	42000	1701000
2012	2000	28000	1407000
2013	1700	43000	1503000
2014	2300	58000	1784000
2015	1900	51000	1038000
2016	1900	27000	812000
2017	1600	24000	719000
2018	1700	22000	844000

Articles with the most Comments per Year

Year	Article	Views	Comments
2005	Stephen Jay Gould’s Contempt for the John Templeton Foundation		453	259
2006	Gil Has Never Grasped the Nature of a Simulation Model		398	200
2007	Kevin Padian: The Archie Bunker Professor of Paleobiology at Cal Berkeley		3718	387
2008	Complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees		1065	571
2009	Answers for Judge Jones		892	768
2010	Intelligent Design and the Demarcation Problem		868	712
2011	Science and Freethinking		8275	686
2012	UB Sets It Out Step-By-Step		14008	1432
2013	Please Take the Time to Understand Our Arguments Before You Attack Them		6874	856
2014	Mystery at the heart of life		8527	3500
2015	Bad math: Why Larry Moran’s “I’m not a Darwinian” isn’t a valid reply to Meyer’s argument		4212	670
2016	Durston and Craig on an infinite temporal past . . .		7162	1416
2017	FFT: Gender as a social construct — what is the vid below telling us on where our intellectual culture has now reached?		4977	576
2018	The Ubiquitin System: Functional Complexity and Semiosis joined together.		9705	953

Articles with the most Views per Year

Year	Article	Views	Comments
2005	Why Scientists Should NOT Dismiss Intelligent Design		4836	30
2006	Respected Cornell geneticist rejects Darwinism in his recent book		6258	106
2007	Icon of Evolution “Lucy” Bites the Dust		15504	28
2008	Lactose digestion in E. coli		8155	20
2009	Darwin reader: Darwin’s racism		10603	141
2010	The Bacterial Flagellum – Truly An Engineering Marvel!		10336	3
2011	A Whale of a Problem for Evolution: Ancient Whale Jawbone Found in Antartica		26907	180
2012	Seven Nobel Laureates in science who either supported Intelligent Design or attacked Darwinian evolution		26361	10
2013	Macroevolution, microevolution and chemistry: the devil is in the details		17239	129
2014	A world-famous chemist tells the truth: there’s no scientist alive today who understands macroevolution		374312	489
2015	Physicist Paul Davies’ killer argument against the multiverse		9811	29
2016	Durston and Craig on an infinite temporal past . . .		7162	1416
2017	FFT*: Charles unmasks the anti-ID trollish tactic of attacking God, Christian values and worldview themes		5691	515
2018	The Ubiquitin System: Functional Complexity and Semiosis joined together.		9705	953

Somewhat Amusing Oddity

The article with the least number of eyeballs was 2011's Cash awards available for research or essays on the uses and abuses of biology : though two users commented (one of them BornAgain77 with an off topic), it was visited only 17 times until Feb 25, 2019 (The average number of views for articles in 2011 was 660). I suppose that most robots will not follow links which are promising "cash awards"!

Conclusion

Not much to see, really. UD is soldiering on after their peak in 2014. The lack of inter-monthly volatility over the last couple of years indicates that traffic at UD does not depend so much on outside influences (like news), but on the set of the same acteurs...