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.