I think
tye made some changes to site policy with respect to robots a few weeks after
Are monks hibernating?. Would it be possible to compare the last three months, say, with the same period last year and previous years?
Update: Here is that information, number of top nodes for each month May-Sep, obtained from jcwren's PTAV (as referenced by grinder in Re: Are monks hibernating?), followed by the same data normalized to the month in 2002:
| '07 | '06 | '05 | '04 | '03 | '02 |
Sep | 665 | 650 | 958 | 921 | 966 | 951 |
Aug | 802 | 733 | 995 | 1000 | 1022 | 1149 |
Jul | 722 | 725 | 1024 | 1010 | 1176 | 1203 |
Jun | 651 | 758 | 1046 | 1038 | 1095 | 1037 |
May | 673 | 735 | 1088 | 1020 | 972 | 1142 |
SUM | 3513 | 3601 | 5111 | 4989 | 5231 | 5482 |
| '07 | '06 | '05 | '04 | '03 | '02 |
Sep | 69 | 68 | 100 | 96 | 101 | 100 |
Aug | 69 | 63 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 100 |
Jul | 60 | 60 | 85 | 83 | 97 | 100 |
Jun | 62 | 73 | 100 | 100 | 105 | 100 |
May | 58 | 64 | 95 | 89 | 85 | 100 |
SUM | 64 | 65 | 93 | 91 | 95 | 100 |
I am sure to have made some mistakes, but the general idea should stay in the same ballpark:
- There was a steep drop (by one third) going from '05 to '06
- No change this year compared to last year, though the meaning of last year's numbers depends on the state of the robots file at that time
Perlmonks top nodes frequency is only one indicator of interest in Perl. Other indicators include job postings and
tiobe. Cheers.