Re: Perlmonks proportion of Perl's "web presence" ?

[chacham]

The only true way to measure its effect, is to take it away and see what happens. Of course, other sites would likely pick up some of the slack, but that all depends on what you mean by presence.

The title says presence, yet the post says importance. Those are two very different things. Things can be important with no presence, and things can have a lot of presence, without being important.

Perlmonks may not have presence due to other sites that google promotes, yet i don't think that can measure it's importance. That would only come from taking it away and seeing what happens.

[LanX]

Well I said " importance of this site for the internet presence " and I also defined/proposed a way to measure what I meant by search results with certain queries.

The web business has surely (more or less reliable) instruments to measure this, at least some Google trends feature which I'm not aware of. (They need something to proof their Search Engine Optimization products, don't they?) °

Otherwise one could attack the question statistically by querying a dictionary of IT terms + "Perl Language", but I'd be surprised if this doesn't already exist somehow.

edit

Do you really read before replying?

footnote

°) that's why I asked "Is there a way to tell from google or DDG statistics?"

[RonW]

From casual observation, Google's tracking is scary good. I would expect their system to have that information, but I'm sure it's also considered sensitive internal information.