What's Popular, What's Not

In Apples to Apples I convinced myself to add more Ex-About.com Material from my archive of old material. What specifically should I add? Why not look at the stats on current material and see which of the active pages receive the most hits?

The first thing I discovered was that the image galleries, as a group, receive more visits than other pages. The six galleries I have today rank in order of popularity as follows.

• Chess in the Movies
  
• Chess Patents
  
• Chess Through the Artist's Eye
  
• Chess Tactics Illustrated
  
• La Bourdonnais' Curious Positions
  
• Photos from the 2005 FIDE World Championship

Of the other pages, these are the 30 most visited.

• Sicilian Defense - 2...e6 Variations
  
• Index: Improve Your Chess Game
  
• The Origin of Chess
  
• Positional Play - Piece Placement and Chess Strategy
  
• 1960 Leipzig - Letelier vs. Fischer
  
• Index: Learn to Play Chess
  
• Index: Chess History
  
• Positional Play - Pawn Structure
  
• Chess Bibliography
  
• Chess Openings - Unusual First Moves

• Welcome to 'Chess for All Ages'
  
• Chess in the Middle Ages
  
• Openings - Introduction to 1.d4
  
• Index: Chess for Fun
  
• Award Winning Chess Books
  
• Maximize the Usefulness of Your Moves
  
• About Chess - Feature Articles 2004-2005...
  
• Improve Your Middle Game (Part 1 - Patterns)
  
• 1844 Romantic Game
  
• Openings - Introduction to 1.e4

• How To Improve at Chess
  
• Build an Opening Repertoire (Part 1)
  
• Top 10 Ways to Lose at Chess
  
• Elementary endgames (Part 2) - Pieces in combat, no Pawns.
  
• Improve Your Middle Game (Part 3 - Plans)
  
• Top 10 Myths About Chess
  
• Chess Openings - Initial Position
  
• Improve Your Middle Game (Part 2 - Combinations)
  
• 1961 Bled - Petrosian vs. Pachman
  
• Chess Ratings

The least popular pages, not counting individual pieces of multi-page series (like a Year in Review), are these.

• The Origin of International Chess Events
  
• Issues on the Chess Table - The 2007 USCF Executive Board Election
  
• The Saga of Chess Unification (1994-2006)
  
• The Schism: Two World Chess Champions (1993-1996)
  
• Opening Repertoire : View Example Games

Conclusion: Images are popular, chess politics aren't. Anything to do with improvement gets attention. Now that I've done this exercise, I'll continue with the Every Move Explained series, which had three pages in the top-30: 1844 Romantic Game, 1960 Leipzig - Letelier vs. Fischer, and 1961 Bled - Petrosian vs. Pachman.