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Statistical Overview

www.DanielPipes.org received about 10,000 unique visitors a month from its opening in December 2000 until 9/11. After 9/11, the number of visitors jumped to about 50,000 a month. The readership has continued to grow and has reached over 300,000 unique visitors a month. The number of page views per month increased from about 50,000 to over a million. In all, the site has received over 52 million page visits. (Source: internal tracking.)

The largest number of readers come from the United States, followed by Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Israel, and Germany. At the other end of the spectrum, a single visitor has come from each of Reunion, the Falkland Islands, the Central African Republic, and something called the "French Southern Territories." Three visitors from Antartica have dropped by. (Source: ExtremeTracking.com)

The website has ranked as high (in February 2006) as the one with15,273rd largest readership on the web.(Source: Alexa.com)

The site is linked to by 200,000 other pages (with the most readers coming from WorldNetDaily.com FrontPageMag.com, and LittleGreenFootballs.com) and has been located through the search of 130,000 different words. (Source: ExtremeTracking.com)

The site contains a feature indicating how many readers are at the moment on the site, which usually ranges between 30 and 100. The highest number of readers at any one time was 450, in May 2003.

Most-read pages (source: internal tracking) include:

The four articles on Barack Obama's having been raised a Muslim, listed at "Bibliography – My Writings on Barack Obama's Early Years as a Muslim." have an aggregate readership of nearly 700,000.

The most common words that bring readers to www.DanielPipes.org via search engines are, in descending order, "Islam/Muslim/Islamic," "sex," "jihad," "Arab," "war," "America," "Israel," and "Saudi."

One curiosity: Although Mr. Pipes rarely writes about sex, this subject dominates the readership totals in all three of his formats: articles ("Arabian Sex Tourism"), blogs ("Strange Sex Stories from the Muslim World"), and comments ("Arab Sex"). In addition, the nearly 8,000 readers' comments at "Advice to Non-Muslim Women against Marrying Muslim Men" are by far the largest in number. It would appear that sex really does sell.

Search Engines

There are three different ways to search for contents on www.DanielPipes.org.

  1. Use any search engine, such as http://www.google.com/, to access the entire contents of the website.
  2. Use the search engine at the top right of any page on www.DanielPipes.org to access specifically the writings by Daniel Pipes (that is, the comments are excluded from this search).
  3. Use the search engine following the text of a weblog entry to show only a certain person's comments or comments from a specific date.

Languages Other Than English

The site contains translations of Mr. Pipes's writings into 33 languages. Of these, 15 have their own homepages. Here are the URLs of those language sites, their inauguration dates, and the average monthly unique visitors (source: internal tracking).

Arabic http://ar.DanielPipes.org July 2006 3300
Chinese (simpl.) http://zh-hans.DanielPipes.org June 2007 N/A
Danish http://da.DanielPipes.org May 2005 2,200
Dutch http://nl.DanielPipes.org June 2007 N/A
French http//fr.DanielPipes.org April 2004 12,350
German http://de.DanielPipes.org May 2003 7,000
Hebrew http//he.DanielPipes.org March 2004 1,650
Hindi http//hi.DanielPipes.org November 2005 700
Italian http//it.DanielPipes.org January 2004 5,400
Polish http//pl.DanielPipes.org July 2004 3,750
Portuguese http//pt.DanielPipes.org July 2005 2,100
Romanian http//ro.DanielPipes.org December 2006 550
Russian http//ru.DanielPipes.org June 2005 1,350
Spanish http//es.DanielPipes.org January 2004 8,100
Swedish http//sv.DanielPipes.org June 2005 1,250

Please note: Translators for other languages are encouraged to contact Mr. Pipes about their availability.

The Weblog

The weblog (or blog) at www.DanielPipes.org was started in February 2003 and took full shape by mid-2003. The goal of the weblog is provide a way for Mr. Pipes, the author of twelve books and a weekly columnist, to do several things:

This weblog has two main features that make it distinct from other blogs.

Mr. Pipes sees the weblog as a fast way to comment on many topics. He therefore frequently quotes and paraphrases his sources.

Out of 41,000 weblogs monitored by DayPop.com (and out of an estimated 10 million weblogs in all), DanielPipes.org has ranked 271st highest in terms of the number of links from other weblogs and as high as 110th highest in terms of over-all readership. (Source: DayPop.com)

Readers' Comments

A forum to comment on Daniel Pipes's articles was opened in April 2002; nearly 100,000 comments by readers have been posted since then, or about 40 a day. About 60 percent come from the United States, with the next largest number from Canada, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia.

The comments section intends to offer an opportunity for readers from many vantage points to interact. But it is a moderated forum, meaning that an editor vets comments before posting them. Comment writers are encouraged to express their views freely.

This text accompanies each comment submission:

Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened for relevance, substance, and tone, and in some cases edited, before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome, but comments are rejected if scurrilous, off-topic, vulgar, ad hominem, or otherwise viewed as inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the Guidelines for Comments.

On occasion, offending sections of comments are deleted and the remainder posted. In such cases, the editors exclude what they find unacceptable and replace it with elipses (...) to indicate editing has taken place. In brief, the editors of www.DanielPipes.org and Mr. Pipes do their best to permit wide-ranging views while maintaining standards of civility and intelligence.

About one in twenty comments does not get posted because of objectionable contents.

The Danish cartoon controversy of February 2006 somewhat changed the rules, for this issue heightened emotions and rhetoric concerning free speech, religion, insults, and blasphemy. The cartoon issue prompted the editors to permit a wider range of impassioned statements so as to reflect the tone of the debate. For further comments on the legitimate scope of the current debate, see "Talking Freely about the Enemy."

For an attempt at "gotcha" by monitoring comments on a website, and Mr. Pipes's response, see this discussion of CAIR and Robert Spencer.

Mr. Pipes reads many but not all the comments and on occasion responds to them, usually to specific questions.

Outstanding comments, mostly ones containing new information, are listed at "25 Most Recent Outstanding Reader Comments."

The most reader's comments, nearly 8,000 of them, are posted at "Advice to Non-Muslim Women against Marrying Muslim Men"). The next highest number is 2,000 at "How the West Could Lose."

Requests to alter or delete already-posted comments: The website regularly receives requests of this nature. Our policy is not to alter or delete the comments themselves, for they are part of the record, but to extend the courtesy of abbreviating part of the commentator's name so as to render it less visible to search engines. If you are making such a request, send the URL of the comment to comments@danielpipes.org with a suggested change to your name.

The "DPlist" Mailing Service

Associated with this website, Daniel Pipes sends out his writings, plus occasional other items about him or invitations to his events, some 2-3 mailings a week. Called "DPlist," it can be subscribed to at http://www.danielpipes.org/subscribe.php.

DPlist began in July 1999, in response to an e-mail campaign initiated against Mr. Pipes by the Council on American-Islamic Relations on publication of his article, "It Matters What Kind of Islam Prevails," so that he would have a list of people to respond to its calumnies. In fact, a request for support was made only one time, later in 1999. Since then, the list has grown substantially and in March 2007 exceeded 25,000 subscribers.

The mail service is also available in other languages. Each of these has a separate URL for signing up:

Arabic: http://ar.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Danish: http://da.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Dutch: http://nl.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
German: http://de.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
French: http://fr.danielpipes.org/subscribe.php
Hebrew: http://hi.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Hindi: http://he.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Italian: http://it.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Polish: http://pl.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Portuguese: http://pt.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Romanian: http://ro.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Russian: http://ru.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Spanish: http://es.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php
Swedish: http://sv.DanielPipes.org/subscribe.php

To help pay for the maintenance of www.DanielPipes.org, advertisements are occasionally sent to the DPlist recipients. To make the commercial quality clear, the word [Ad], in square brackets, begins the subject line. The sending of an advertisement implies only that it meets certain basic qualifications, and it does not imply endorsement of the product by Daniel Pipes.

Names of DPlist recipients are never sold to an outside party.

Posting Policies by Daniel Pipes

Articles: Most articles from the pre-internet age, meaning roughly before 1996, are posted as they were submitted by Daniel Pipes for publication, not as edited and as they finally appeared. For the exact text of what appeared in print, please consult the original place of publication. Articles since then are posted as published, with the exception of some small silent corrections (typos, spelling mistakes, addition of material in square brackets).

Interviews: Interview transcripts, especially from television, tend to be done hastily by various services and therefore contain numerous mistakes (names, spelling, grammar); these are generally cleaned up before posting at www.DanielPipes.org.

Blogs: Weblogs are a dynamic medium with no cut-off date, no authoritative version, so these are continuously edited to ensure the highest quality texts.

Ads: This blog includes advertisements arranged by Blogads, D&D Marketing Solutions, google.com, Tribal Fusion, and other agencis. As is the case in a newspaper or magazine, the appearance of an advertisement and on this site implies only that it meets certain basic qualifications, and specifically does not imply endorsement of the product by Daniel Pipes.

Links: This website contains thousands of links to other pages on the internet established over many years. Invariably, a proportion of those links eventually go dead. Much as Mr. Pipes would like to maintain their accuracy, limits on his time mean that they are nearly always left in their original form.

Piggybacked Articles

"Piggybacked articles" refers to those in which Mr. Pipes bases an article favorably on the work of another writer.

The Middle East Forum

Daniel Pipes is founder and director of the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based research institute. Although there is coordination between www.DanielPipes.org and the sites belonging to the Middle East Forum (www.MEForum.org, www.Campus-Watch.org, www.Islamist-Watch.org), this site is the private, personal property of Daniel Pipes. It is registered in his name, it is owned by him, and it is legally unconnected to the Middle East Forum.

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