I have been recently upgrading folios on InDepthInfo to the “new” format. Anything over nine years old has been getting a facelift. One of the folios that I have been working on is Weekdays, which describes the days of the week, telling how they came about and any holidays that are associated with them.
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In order to make sure that the new format does not effect traffic, I have had occasion to monitor the folio pretty closely. What I found was that Saturday gets the least traffic of all the individual day pages. Believe it or not Wednesday is the most popular. Now, all things being relatively equal, why would this be?
This is my theory, Saturday is also the day of the week that InDepthInfo gets the least number of hits. It is the day that many people are busy mowing their yards, going on dates, eating BBQ, or relaxing with a good book. (Not me, of course. I am always working.) People are too busy on Saturdays to click a Saturday link. Also being the last day of the week, anyone doing research on the days of the week, will be most likely to give that day short shrift. Another strange thing about Saturday is that it was the only day of the week to retain its Roman name after the Barbarian invasions of England. Even the Norsemen paid less attention to it!
Finally, I think Saturday has a certain mystique about it that most people don’t want to destroy by having too much knowledge. But then again, in my mind you can never know too much!
