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In 2016, an article entitled ''2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism'' featured [[Alexa]] web traffic graphs which indicated that some prominent atheist websites lost a significant portion of their global market share.<ref>[http://combatingatheism.blogspot.com/2016/02/2015-was-terrible-year-for-internet.html 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism]</ref> Since 2012, [[Freethought Blogs]] (a collection of atheist bloggers) saw a significant decline in its web traffic.<ref>[https://www.quantcast.com/freethoughtblogs.com#/trafficCard Freethoughtblog.com uses Quantcast to measure their web traffic and the demograghhics of their web visitors - Click to see report]</ref> | In 2016, an article entitled ''2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism'' featured [[Alexa]] web traffic graphs which indicated that some prominent atheist websites lost a significant portion of their global market share.<ref>[http://combatingatheism.blogspot.com/2016/02/2015-was-terrible-year-for-internet.html 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism]</ref> Since 2012, [[Freethought Blogs]] (a collection of atheist bloggers) saw a significant decline in its web traffic.<ref>[https://www.quantcast.com/freethoughtblogs.com#/trafficCard Freethoughtblog.com uses Quantcast to measure their web traffic and the demograghhics of their web visitors - Click to see report]</ref> | ||
| − | An article entitled ''[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html Internet atheism: The thrill is gone!]'' declares: "In 2007, the Bible believer [[Chuck Norris]] noted that atheists were making a concerted effort to spread atheism via the internet. As you you will soon see via the graphs below, it has been an abysmal failure! The atheist community flooded the internet with a lot of shallow, ill-reasoned fluff that many in the public quickly dismissed."<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html Internet atheism and skepticism: The thrill is gone!]</ref> | + | An article entitled ''[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html Internet atheism: The thrill is gone!]'' declares: "In 2007, the Bible believer [[Chuck Norris]] noted that atheists were making a concerted effort to spread atheism via the internet. As you you will soon see via the graphs below, it has been an abysmal failure! The atheist community flooded the internet with a lot of shallow, ill-reasoned fluff that many in the public quickly dismissed."<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html Internet atheism and skepticism: The thrill is gone!]</ref> |
For more information see: [http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html Internet atheism - post 2007 market share loss] | For more information see: [http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html Internet atheism - post 2007 market share loss] | ||
Revision as of 02:39, July 30, 2022
During the period of 2008 to 2012, the atheist community made a concerted effort to spread atheism through means of the internet. However, leading atheist websites saw plunges in web traffic during the latter period of this time.[1] See also: Internet atheism
In 2016, an article entitled 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism featured Alexa web traffic graphs which indicated that some prominent atheist websites lost a significant portion of their global market share.[2] Since 2012, Freethought Blogs (a collection of atheist bloggers) saw a significant decline in its web traffic.[3]
An article entitled Internet atheism: The thrill is gone! declares: "In 2007, the Bible believer Chuck Norris noted that atheists were making a concerted effort to spread atheism via the internet. As you you will soon see via the graphs below, it has been an abysmal failure! The atheist community flooded the internet with a lot of shallow, ill-reasoned fluff that many in the public quickly dismissed."[4]
For more information see: Internet atheism - post 2007 market share loss
See also: Google trends - Atheism and agnosticism terms
2019 Google trends graphs for the terms: Atheism, atheist, Richard Dawkins, agnostic and agnosticism
2019 Google trends world graphs
2019 Google trends USA graphs
For more information, please see: Post sexual harassment allegations against Lawrence Krauss and David Silverman, searches for atheism related topics have dropped markedly and A shambolic atheist community faces some tough choices
American Atheists website
See also: American Atheists
On August 9, 2019, the American Atheists website was ranked the 338,824th most popular website in the world by the web trafic tracking company Alexa.
American Atheists website and its loss of Google referral traffic
See also: Internet atheism and the coronavirus pandemic
As of July 28, 2022, the Google referral traffic going to the American Atheists website is significantly lower than it was at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic according to SEMRush's data.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Atheist Sam Harris' website
See also: Sam Harris
Sam Harris' websites loss of Google referral web traffic
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
RationalWiki and its large drop in Google referral traffic since October 2019 and during/after 2020
See also: RationalWiki and web traffic
As you can see in the above graph, Google has downgraded its estimation of RationalWiki in terms of the quality of its website and RationalWiki is getting less Google traffic.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Indications that RationalWiki lacked funds during the pandemic
On May 29, 2022, one of the founders of the RationalWiki website indicated "Currently the donations we get are sparse... We have not done a donation drive in a long time and have not been self-supporting for over a year....".[5] A global fundraising scam, Rationalwiki has not complied with non-profit reporting requirements for 7 consecutive years.[6] See also: Atheism and charity and Atheist organizations and fundraising and Atheist fundraising vs. religious fundraising
Richard Dawkins' website and loss of Google referral traffic
See also: Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science website
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Freethoughtblogs
See also: Freethought Blogs and Internet atheism
Freethought Blogs is a spinoff of ScienceBlogs launched by PZ Myers and Ed Brayton.
Freethought Blogs has lost a very large proportion of its monthly Google referral traffic
Web traffic of Freethought Blogs dramatically declines from June 2019 to September 2019
On June 23, 2019, Freethought Blogs was the 90,953th most popular website in the world according to Alexa, but by September 23, 2019 Freethought Blogs was merely the 170,112th most popular website in the world according to Alexa.
Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019
Alexa is a web traffic tracking company. In 2015 and 2016, Freethought Blogs saw a large decrease in its Alexa ranking.
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Skeptoid.com's Loss of Google referral web traffic
See also: Skeptoid
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Atheist Republic's loss of Google referral web traffic
See also: Atheist Republic
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
The Orbit: Loss of Google referral traffic
See also: The Orbit
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Secular Web's website: Loss of Google referral traffic
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
See also: Internet atheism and the coronavirus pandemic
Several atheist websites did very poorly during the coronavirus pandemic and lost a large amount of their traffic since the early part of 2020 (See: Internet atheism and the coronavirus pandemic).
Historically, religiosity increases during pandemics. Pew Research found people's religious faith grew during the pandemic - especially in the United States.[7] Nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults say the outbreak has boosted their faith; about four-in-ten say it has tightened family bonds.[8]
In addition, many atheist organizations have significant difficulty in getting their fellow atheist to financially support them (see: Atheist organizations and fundraising), so their web marketing budgets could have been low during the pandemic. In addition, many atheist organizations have poor fiscal management so they may not have had reserves built up before the pandemic (see: Atheist organizations and financial mismanagement).
The atheist websites might never gain that traffic back again as the number of atheists in the world is expected to drop soon after 2022 according to the scholars at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.[9] Currently, the global atheist population is losing market share in terms of the world's population (see: Global atheism statistics).
Decline of YouTube atheism
In December 2015, a video entitled What Killed YouTube Atheism? was released giving a number of reasons YouTube atheism saw a big decline.[10]
Elevatorgate and Richard Dawkins' loss of online influence
See also: Atheist movement and Elevatorgate
Richard Dawkins is still widely criticized for causing embarrassment to his fellow atheists via his Elevatorgate scandal and for igniting deep fractures in the atheist movement.[11]
Graph showing Richard Dawkins' loss of influence post Elevatatorgate
See also: Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science website
As can be seen by the graph below, by means of embedded code on his website from Quantcast, Quantcast directly measured the web traffic of Richard Dawkins' website. Traffic to Dawkins website is significantly down post-Elevatorgate scandal.
Although his following of Dawkian atheist has significantly waned post-Elevatorgate and due to his generally abrasive manner, he does retain a small cult following (See: Richard Dawkins' loss of influence and Richard Dawkins' cult of personality and Atheist cults).
In October 2012, Rebecca Watson published a story about Elevatorgate and its aftermath in Slate entitled, It Stands to Reason, Skeptics Can Be Sexist Too: I spoke out about sexual harassment among atheists and scientists. Then came the rape threats.[14]
The web traffic was measured via Quantcast which directly measured Dawkins' website traffic via embedded code on his website.[15]
Recent web traffic according to Quantcast which directly measured Dawkins' website traffic
Alexa ranking of Richard Dawkins' website
See also: Alexa rankings of Richard Dawkins' website
Reddit atheism
See also: Reddit atheism
Reddit atheism, also known as r/atheism, is one of the largest internet groups of atheists.[17]
In 2013 Reddit atheism lost its main page status
In 2013 it suffered a major setback as it lost its status as a default subreddit (default subreddits are the forums that all non-logged in users see when they visit the site. In other words, the atheism subreddit was removed from its homepage).[18]
In 2016, due to Reddit removing inactive "ghost accounts", Reddit reduced the amount of members in Reddit atheism by 10,000 user accounts.[19]
Reddit atheism has a bad reputation
A June 14, 2013 Mashable article declared: "In recent years, r/atheism has become known for memes, images, quote pictures and other content viewed by some as "low brow."[17]
According to the website Motherboard.com, "The term “reddit atheist” has evolved as a shorthand in recent years for a negative internet cliché, that of the rabid Richard Dawkins supporter, the mansplainer..." [19]
Historically, the atheist population has often used mockery as a substitution for reasonable discussion/debate and Reddit atheism is a continuation of this tradition (see: Atheism and mockery).
Ineffectiveness of much of internet material
In 2007, WorldNetDaily featured a column by Chuck Norris concerning atheism and the internet which declared:
| “ | Atheists are making a concerted effort to win the youth of America and the world. Hundreds of websites and blogs on the Internet seek to convince and convert adolescents, endeavoring to remove any residue of theism from their minds and hearts by packaging atheism as the choice of a new generation. While you think your kids are innocently surfing the Web, secular progressives are intentionally preying on their innocence and naïveté.
What's preposterous is that atheists are now advertising and soliciting on websites particularly created for teens... YouTube, the most popular video site on the Net for young people, is one of their primary avenues for passing off their secularist propaganda.[20] |
” |
Atheism internet outreach efforts, however, Ineffectiveness of atheist internet outreach.
Notes
- ↑ Internet atheism: The thrill is gone!
- ↑ 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism
- ↑ Freethoughtblog.com uses Quantcast to measure their web traffic and the demograghhics of their web visitors - Click to see report
- ↑ Internet atheism and skepticism: The thrill is gone!
- ↑ Difference between revisions of "RationalWiki talk:Site support", Revision as of 17:15, 29 May 2022 (edit) (undo)
- ↑ Is the Foundation Defunct?, RationalWiki talk:RationalMedia Foundation/Archive2, 22:50, 26 August 2021. Rationalwiki.org.
- ↑ More Americans Than People in Other Advanced Economies Say COVID-19 Has Strengthened Religious Faith, Pew Research, 2021
- ↑ More Americans Than People in Other Advanced Economies Say COVID-19 Has Strengthened Religious Faith, Pew Forum
- ↑ Status of Global Christianity, 2022, in the Context of 1900–2050
- ↑ What Killed YouTube atheism?
- ↑
- Richard Dawkins: Skeptic of women? - Salon, July 8, 2011
- Sharing a lift with Richard Dawkins by David Allen Green - New Stateman - 06 July 2011
- Richard Dawkins Torn Limb From Limb—By Atheists - Gawker
- Atheists address sexism issues - USA Today
- Richard Dawkins, check the evidence on the 'chilly climate' for women by Emily Band, The Guardian, July 24, 2011
- Richard Dawkins and male privilege By Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, July 5, 2011 10:30 am
- ↑ 2012 has been a very BAD year for Richard Dawkins's website according to Quantcast
- ↑ Richard Dawkins' loss of influence
- ↑ It Stands to Reason, Skeptics Can Be Sexist Too: I spoke out about sexual harassment among atheists and scientists. Then came the rape threats by Rebecca Watson, Slate, October 2012
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Quantcast - Quantcast Measure
- ↑ Web traffic of Richard Dawkins' main website
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Reddit Atheists Have New Leadership After Turbulent Coup
- ↑ Reddit dumps r/atheism and r/politics from its default homepage
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Reddit Rapture: How r/atheism Suddenly Lost 10,000 Users
- ↑ https://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55789