Analysis of publications on Habrahabr for 2017. Statistics, useful finds and ratings

By the end of 2017. It's time to sum up some of the results. How was this year on Habrahabr? To answer this question, we, at Cloud4Y , decided to collect statistics on all publications over the period since the beginning of the year. In this article we will talk about what seemed to us the most interesting.

From January 1 to 18:00 on December 22, 2017, 10,684 posts were posted on Habrahabr, which have been viewed about 123 million times! We did not include into account 46 megaposts and publications that were hidden or transferred to Geektimes. On average, about 900 posts were published per month, and March was a record one.
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The ratio of publications between corporate and personal blogs habrovchan for the analyzed period amounted to 51.7% to 48.3%. The share of publications in companies' blogs was the lowest in January. This is due to the long New Year holidays. The most "corporate" was May.



The average publication in 2017 gained 11,500 views and a rating of +20. At one "average" post there were 70 users who added it to the "Favorites", and 30 comments to discuss it. Posts from personal blogs lead in the number of views (+ 10%), adding to Favorites (+ 22%) and the number of comments (+ 48%).



Median values: views 7400, rating 14, add “To favorites” 45, comments 12.

The graph below shows the number of views for posts that are sorted by publication date. That is, for example, from 0 to 500 is the very beginning of the year or 500 first publications. As you can see, the publications consistently gain "their" views and systematically appear "abnormally" interesting publications with 50000+ views.



The density of distribution of publications for the year fits into a log-normal distribution, which is explained by the Habrahabr voting system. We wrote more about this here and here .

TOP 15 articles of 2017 by number of views

1. How to “punch” a person on the Internet: use Google operators and logic - 331,000 views
2. Linux-2017: the most promising distributions - Viewed 264,000
3. What is a blockchain and why is it needed ? The number of views is 203,000
4. Open machine learning course. Topic 1. Primary data analysis with Pandas - 195,000 views
5. Bash scripts: start - Views count 181,000
6. A little more about Xiaomi phones and the fight with them. Updated - Views 180,000
7. What is the UX / UI design really? - The number of views 170,000
8. Offline DPI bypass method and efficient way to bypass website blocking by IP-address - 166,000 views
9. Anonymity in Tor: what not to do - Views count 152,000
10. How to find out the balance of someone else's bank card, knowing its number? - The number of views 152,000
11. Traveling over the hill and back: how not to work abroad - the Number of views 152,000
12. Six myths about the blockchain and Bitcoin, or Why this is not such an effective technology - Views count 146000
13. Wi-Fi hacking - 142,000 views
14. Ukraine has undergone the largest in the history of cyber attack virus Petya - The number of views 141,000
15. [UPDATED + Comments] First they steal, and when you win, they kill you - Views count 139,000

TOP 15 articles of 2017 rated

1. [UPDATED + Comments] At first they steal, and when you win, they kill you - Rating 506
2. Traveling over the hill and back: how not to get a job abroad - Rating 392
3. How does it feel to be a developer in Russia when you are forty - Rating 323
4. New Year's post good - Rating 302
5. Part 2. First they steal, and when you win, they kill you - Rating 295
6. You fired the most talented employee. I hope you are happy now - Rating 290
7. How to wind the rating on Habré and go unnoticed - Rating 285
8. I'm not guilty. He himself came - Rating 277
9. Finished the game, working on a video card - Rating 265
10. Development at a speed of 450 words per minute - Rating 253
11. You are not Google - Rating 246
12. From surgeon to developer: how to change profession in 40 years? - Rating 239
13. About Gaudi - a developer from the nineteenth century who achieved all that a developer can achieve - Rating 222
14. VK vulnerability: send a message with a page recovery code to someone else's number - Rating 217
15. Four types of programmers - Rating 216

TOP 5 publications that caused the greatest response

1. UNIX-like systems contain a bunch of crutches. The collapse of the "UNIX philosophy" - rating +139 with 158 minuses
2. “Hello, (real) world!” On php in 2017 - rating +173 with 87 minuses
3. Report on the hackathon of the team Navalny - Rating +113 with 91 minuses
4. The answer to the publication “From the surgeon to the developers: how can I change my profession in 40 years?” Or why I don’t like custom articles - Rating +149 with 73 minuses
5. IDEA time to bury? - Rating +175 with 60 minus

* We calculated this TOP by the formula = (Number of minuses / number of pluses) * Final rating to highlight the publications with the largest share of minuses among the highest rated

TOP 15 by adding to Favorites

1. How to “punch” a person on the Internet: use Google operators and logic - 1484 were added to Favorites
2. The most useful methods of working in the Linux command line - 1479 were added to Favorites
3. Bash scripts: start - added to Favorites 1252
4. Magic SSH - added to Favorites 1183
5. We explain the modern JavaScript dinosaur - added to Favorites 1183
6. +500 free tools to launch your startup in 2017 - added 1138 to Favorites
7. Design patterns with a human face - added to Favorites 1056
8. Autonomous way to bypass DPI and effective way to bypass website blocking by IP-address - added 996 to Favorites
9. How to understand what is happening on the server - added to Favorites 961
10. Breaking Wi-Fi - added to Favorites 921
11. 33 ways to speed up your front-end in 2017 - 859 added to Favorites
12. A dozen tricks in Linux that really save a lot of time - added to Favorites 856
13. Open machine learning course. Topic 1. Primary data analysis with Pandas - added to Favorites 852
14. Business correspondence in English: phrases and tips - added to Favorites 847
15. How I use git - added to Favorites 841

The most discussed posts of 2017

1. Traveling over the hill and back: how not to get a job abroad - Comments left in 1225
2. Uneducated youth. Business response - Comments posted 1108
3. Uneducated youth - Comments left by 839
4. Sotsinzhiniring in military propaganda - Comments were left 798
5. How does it feel to be a developer in Russia when you are forty? Comments left 765
6. No, I do not have third-party projects to show you - Comments left 755
7. Report on the hackathon of the team Navalny - Comments left 744
8. Programmers can not write algorithms without help: once again about the interview - Comments left 741
9. These toxic, toxic interviews - Comments left 720
10. UNIX-like systems contain a bunch of crutches. The collapse of the "UNIX philosophy" - Comments left 699
11. JavaScript as a phenomenon - Comments posted 687
12. [UPDATED + Comments] First they steal, and when you win, they kill you - Comments left 676
13. Why programmers do not get work: four horror stories - Comments left 675
14. Give me your salary, and I will tell who you are - Comments left 662
15. JavaScript as a myslevirus - Comments posted 646

Translations, educational materials, Recovery mode and Sandbox

14.3% of publications were marked with the tag "Translation". Such publications collected an average of 48% more views, were 73% better added by readers to Favorites, collected more comments by 4 and received a rating higher by +7.

The best translations were (by rating):

1. You fired the most talented employee. I hope you are happy now - Rating 290
2. Development at a speed of 450 words per minute - Rating 253
3. You are not Google - Rating 246
4. "Magic Constant" 0x5f3759df - Rating 208
5. We explain the modern JavaScript dinosaur - Rating 168
6. The implementation of "Tetris" in the game "Life" - Rating 166
7. No, I do not have third-party projects to show you - Rating 164
8. Protecting your site with ZIP bombs - Rating 153
9. 24-core CPU, and I can not move the cursor - Rating 152
10. Pixel screen fill in Wolfenstein 3D - Rating 150

Tutorial

Training materials occupied about 10% of all publications in 2017. Of course, from any good publication you can always get useful knowledge, but in the analysis we took into account only posts marked with the Tutorial tag.

Top 10 Educational Articles 2017

1. Workshop “Why Steve Jobs Loved Fonts” (Alexey Kapterev) - Rating 192
2. As a freelancer to open a company in Latvia and what advantages it gives - Rating 127
3. We start the GSM network at home - Rating 119
4. Optical alignment and user interfaces - Rating 95
5. Tuning the Linux network stack for the lazy - Rating 94
6. How to “punch” a person on the Internet: we use Google operators and logic - Rating 88
7. Guide for novice graphic shaders programmer - Rating 86
8. Development of characters for the game "Allods Online" - Rating 85
9. Planetary Landscape - Rating 82
10. How I created a profitable global SaaS project, from development to sales - Rating 81

Recovery Mode

3.7% of posts were published in Recovery Mode. Such publications have lower rates of popularity.



We chose TOP5 publications, the authors of which best of all used the chance to return to the ranks of the zahabrenny.

1. "Doctor Web": the portal gosuslugi.ru is compromised and can start infecting visitors or stealing information - Rating 157
2. How fake programmers design - Rating 107
3. The Thorny Path Hello World - Rating 74
4. Rostelecom: other people's accounts are not spam - Rating 72
5. Angular vs. React vs. Vue: Comparison 2017 - Rating 56

Sandbox

1277 articles were selected in 2017 in the Sandbox and published in the main tape. The publications that received the invitation, on average, are "on equal footing" with other posts on Habré.



1. I am not guilty. He himself came - Rating 277
2. From surgeon to developer: how to change profession in 40 years? - Rating 239
3. VK vulnerability: send a message with a page recovery code to someone else's number - Rating 217
4. Give me your salary, and I will tell you who you are - Rating 177
5. The answer to the publication “From the surgeon to the developers: how can I change my profession in 40 years?” Or why I don’t like custom articles - Rating 149
6. Chief, I want to work from home - Rating 143
7. Development of profitable Android games by two students - Rating 129
8. The cost of real estate on heat maps - Rating 122
9. The saga of the Gulf Stream and the level of information security in a large security company - Rating 121
10. Reverse side of Agile - Rating 118

Top Comments

What should be a comment that will score more than 70 “pluses” from habrovchan? Probably, he should express the opinion of a large part of readers, and most importantly do it capaciously. We have collected TOP-10 comments on their rating:

1. habrahabr.ru/post/319332/#comment_10007362 - Rating 86
2. habrahabr.ru/post/321652/#comment_10065422 - Rating 161
3. habrahabr.ru/post/321652/#comment_10065924 - Rating 74
4. habrahabr.ru/company/vkontakte/blog/324722/#comment_10134050 - Rating 72
5. habrahabr.ru/post/326284/#comment_10167628 - Rating 73
6. habrahabr.ru/post/335010/#comment_10347364 - Rating 103
7. habrahabr.ru/post/339908/#comment_10467980 - Rating 75
8. habrahabr.ru/post/342168/#comment_10516420 - Rating 73
9. habrahabr.ru/post/336092/#comment_10374942 - Rating 71
10. habrahabr.ru/company/flant/blog/330750/#comment_10261302 - Rating 71

Hub leaders

During the year publications were placed in 320 hubs. Not all hubs are equally popular, but to accommodate 80% of publications took about 90 of the most popular hubs, i.e. subjects - very diverse. The top 10 hubs include 26% of 2017 publications.



It was also curious to know whether the number of selected hubs has an impact on the popularity of the article. As companies additionally add their publications to the hub “Company Blog XXX” (there were 444 different in 2017), we decided to compare only articles in the personal blogs of Habrovchan. We had to pump our Excel a lot, but the result seemed interesting to us.



As we can see - since 2 hubs, the increase in views is very weak. Although at the level of statistical error, the situation is somewhat different for corporate blogs. The maximum number of views on average collect articles with 1 additional hub. Perhaps this is the result of the fact that most of the posts in corporate blogs are filled with hubs "to the eyeballs", and more interesting publications are narrowly thematic.



You can work with such a large and interesting data array for a long time. In order to know the measure, we decided to stop at this. If you are interested in any dependence of indicators or statistics, leave a comment, if possible we will try to calculate and publish.

We wish the year 2018 to give the Khabarovsk people an exciting and vivid experience, which, we hope, no less interesting articles will be written about.