HASTAC zeitgeist, November 2013

I'm a little behind on this monthly entry, but I'll make up for it by giving a preview of December's stats. 

On December 12th, Arielle Schlesinger's blog post entitled "Feminism and Programming Languages" got Redditted. It was actually published in November, but went viral after being spread by folks interested in programming and "men's rights" on sites like Reddit, 4chan, Slashdot, Metafilter, Facepunch (classy!), Twitter, Facebook, and possibly the crowning acheievement in my opinion: Know Your Meme (a Cheezburger-affiliated site).  We usually get roughly 3,000 visits to hastac.org on a typical weekday, we suddenly had over 36,000 in one day! Here's a visual to show the impact this had on visits to hastac.org (click to enlarge):

So, back to November. Here are the top 10 most popular pages on the site by visits:

As I mentioned last  month, that post on "Social Media's Affect on Human Interaction" continues to be very popular in Google searches, in addition to "Written? Kitten! and Other Silly / Effective Writing Aids"

In Novemeber, our top referers were:

So far in Decemeber it looks more like: