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SealFAQs Statistics

SealFAQs has been officially launched for one month.  Here are the statistics for the month of January 2018 according to Awstats (Advanced Web Statistics).

SealFAQs had 1015 unique visitors and a total of 1407 visits (1.38 visits/visitor).  This means that some visitors returned for an additional look!  Visitors averaged looking at 2.7 pages per visit.  There were even more visits by the various bots and such that traverse the Internet — most of these bots were from search engines.

Visits per day averages 44 and the number of daily visits is slowly increasing.  Most people visit during the week and the middle part of the day – which I take as meaning that people are visiting SealFAQs from their work site.  This is a good sign to me.

By far, the most visitors are from the United States and distantly followed by India, Russia, China, Canada, Great Britain and others.

Visits average about 135 seconds in duration but most visits are for less than 30 seconds.  This is probably not a good sign.  Perhaps people are misled about the content of SealFAQs or have difficulty finding their way around?

As expected, access is predominately via the Windows operating system (83%) but 47% of the browsers are Google Chrome whereas Internet Explorer is used by 27% and Firefox by 11%.

Google’s search engine predominates the source of the links to SealFAQs.

There are a few links from the Wikipedia article on end face mechanical seals but those will probably disappear because the Wikipedia editors did not like linking to SealFAQs and have removed that link.

All in all, I’m well pleased with the first month of traffic to SealFAQs.  To be sure, SealFAQs is not a major web attraction but at least it is drawing some attention.

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Wikipedia Gripes

We interrupt the series on cell phone documentation to gripe about Wikipedia …

Previously, I posted about editing the end face mechanical seals article on Wikipedia.   Those edits are still holding as written.  However, the editors at Wikipedia did not like my link back to this site so it has been removed.  They said that SealFAQs was a self published blog and therefore a conflict of interest.  They also removed links to SealFAQs that I’d placed in a few other articles.  Surprisingly, they allowed a link to a commercial seal distributor!

Not my day at Wikipedia.  Unrelated to mechanical seals, I had created an article about my great, great, great grandfather, William Calmes Buck who was a noted Baptist preacher in the 1800s.  My submission was declined on the basis that, as a relative, I had a conflict of interest.    They also did not like that I used his memoirs as a major reference.  The article is still on Wikipedia but as a draft.  I’ve appealed and am modifying the references as requested but expect it will not be acceptable.

Oh well.

… and now we return to cell phone photography.

 

 

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Wikipedia: API Standard 682

Although Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has a page for the American Petroleum Institute (API), it does not have a page for the seal standard API 682.  I’ve created a new page “API Standard 682” and written an encyclopedic type description.  Because this is a new page, it must be approved and I was told that approval might take several months because of the large backlog of new pages (2415 pending submissions!) waiting for approval.  In the meantime, the draft page can be accessed by searching for “Draft: API Standard 682” or by going directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:API_Standard_682.  The draft article can even be edited if you wish to revise or add to it.

The draft article on API 682 does not contain nearly enough detail to replace the complete standard and is not intended to do so. Instead, the draft article builds up to the content of 4th Edition by providing the background and development of previous editions.  The draft article includes the Table of Contents for 4th edition and a brief descriptions of piping plans.

Whereas the terms “tandem” and “double” were used in the more general “End Face Mechanical Seals” article, I used the terms “Arrangement 2” and “Arrangement 3” in the API 682 article.

At this point in time, the Wikipedia draft page on API Standard 682 is in sync with SealFAQs but you can be sure that will change in the future.

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Wikipedia: End Face Mechanical Seals

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has a page about mechanical seals:  “End Face Mechanical Seals”.  The “End Face” term is to distinguish the “mechanical seals” that are featured in SealFAQs from the many other types of seals and mechanical seals that are also on Wikipedia.

The Wikipedia page on end face mechanical seals is a pretty good one – I know because I wrote much of it. In fact, some years ago, I edited the page and convinced other editors to use the term “end face mechanical seals”.  Of course, Wikipedia is a collaborative effort and anyone can edit Wikipedia articles so much of my previous revisions had disappeared – just as my current revisions will also disappear over time.

This time around, my edits were largely to make the Wikipedia article consistent with API 682. Therefore, I insisted that an end face mechanical seal is comprised of five components:

  • Seal ring
  • Mating ring
  • Secondary sealing elements
  • Springs
  • Hardware

whereas the previous article had listed only four components by virtue of grouping the seal ring and mating ring into “primary sealing surfaces”. This combining has happened in the past and will probably happen again.  Obviously someone believes strongly in grouping the seal ring and mating ring.

I also added a very brief overview of seal piping plans, expanded the section on origins and development of mechanical seals and provided a list of references – including a link to SealFAQs.

At this point in time, the Wikipedia page on End Face Mechanical Seals is in sync with SealFAQs but you can be sure that will change in the future.