After breakfast, online, coffee is drunk, the weather is grey. Plans for today: backup of the phone, install new phone, pick up hiking shoes… Bah!
2019-03-01 Podcast Numbers talked about estimating the number of listeners for a podcast. These days my web server only keeps logs for 4 days. Thus, stats are limited. Here’s what I did for the Internet Office Hours.
zgrep 'internet-office-hours-0[1-5].mp3' /var/log/apache2/access.log* \
| grep GET \
| cut -d ' ' -f 2,8 \
| sort \
| uniq \
| cut -d ' ' -f 2 \
| sort \
| uniq -c
6 /files/internet-office-hours-01.mp3
3 /files/internet-office-hours-02.mp3
3 /files/internet-office-hours-03.mp3
3 /files/internet-office-hours-04.mp3
21 /files/internet-office-hours-05.mp3
To explain:
Assuming that the four panelists are also in that list, that gives us an estimated 17 listeners; more, if multiple people used the same IP number; less, if somebody downloaded it more than once.
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For comparison, in the last four days for the Halberds and Helmets Podcast:
zgrep 'halberds-and-helmets\.mp3' /var/log/apache2/access.log* \
| grep GET | cut -d ' ' -f 2,8 | sort | uniq \
| cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sort | uniq -c
5 /podcast/01-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
4 /podcast/02-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
5 /podcast/03-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
5 /podcast/04-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
3 /podcast/05-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/06-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/07-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
3 /podcast/08-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
4 /podcast/09-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/10-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/11-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/12-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/13-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/14-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/15-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/16-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
4 /podcast/17-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/18-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/19-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/20-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
3 /podcast/21-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
3 /podcast/22-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/23-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/24-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
3 /podcast/25-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/26-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/27-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/28-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/29-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/30-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/31-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/32-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/33-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/34-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/35-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/36-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/37-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/38-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/39-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
2 /podcast/40-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/41-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/42-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/43-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
1 /podcast/44-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
5 /podcast/45-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
10 /podcast/46-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
106 /podcast/47-halberds-and-helmets.mp3
105 listeners!? 😲
– Alex 2023-03-25 11:27 UTC
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Let’s see what Apple has to say:
94 followers. I wonder what that means. Subscribers? People who have added it to their podcatcher, i.e. who are downloading the feed? That would make sense.
30 listeners. Those are the people (”unique devices”) that listened to “more than 0 seconds”. I guess many people download the tracks and then don’t listen to them? Also: Scary to realize that Apple is tracking whether you actually listen to the podcast! I hope my app (iCatcher) isn’t reporting my usage.
26 engaged listeners. Those are the people (”unique devices”) that listened to “20 minutes or 40% of an episode in a session”.
294 plays. Those are the number of times somebody (”unique devices”) pressed play (”more than 0 seconds”).
How weird this all is.
Perhaps I’m better off not knowing any of this. 🙈
– Alex 2023-03-25 11:41 UTC
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All I know is that you have at least one listener!
– Björn Buckwalter 2023-03-25 16:27 UTC
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Haha, yay! 😄
– Alex 2023-03-25 21:33 UTC
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zgrep 'internet-office-hours-.*.mp3' /var/log/apache2/access.log* | grep GET \
| cut -d ' ' -f 2,8 | sort | uniq | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sort | uniq -c
1 /files/internet-office-hours-01.mp3
1 /files/internet-office-hours-11.mp3
2 /files/internet-office-hours-12.mp3
2 /files/internet-office-hours-13.mp3
4 /files/internet-office-hours-14.mp3
39 /files/internet-office-hours-15.mp3