Young Writers Society

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
II. Statistics
III. YWS Activity
IV. See Also...

I. Introduction

2013 was a big year for YWS. In the most important way, it was our best ever since every single work got at least two reviews -- the first time this has happened.

Activity wise, there were a lot of ups and downs as there are every year. But the year ended on a high note with December posting record reviews, visits, and pageviews for the year.

This was also a year marked by a large number of big events. In February you had the first ever YWS'tival, an idea penned by @SparkToFlame. In July, we had Christmas in July. In November, there was the birthday week during which we ran the second YWS'tival (started by @SparkToFlame), and we finished the year off with the Reviewing World Cup.

There were other user-led initiatives as well, most notably Knights of the Green Room (started by @Hannah) and Squills (started by @Griffinkeeper). Both have gone on to become major parts of YWS.

Of course, that's hardly all that happened. There was the tagging game, blog quizzes, mention wars, and wall spamming conflicts. There was the two-day period where a couple classes took over YWS and treated us to treatises about technology, and there was the brief re-emergence of FRED, whose foray into the glamorous but emotionally vacuous world of server modelling has not gone as well as he hoped.

And that even just barely scratches the surface. So in an attempt to better understand 2013, here is the YWS in 2013 Super Stats Post!

II. Statistics

Visits


Pageviews


Where YWSers came from


Top 10 Countries / Territories
1. United States - 346,654 visits (57.6% of total)
2. United Kingdom - 63,194 visits (10.49% of total)
3. Australia - 30,438 (5.05%)
4. Canada - 27,932 (4.64%)
5. India - 15,739 (2.61%)
6. New Zealand - 10,774 (1.79%)
7. Philippines - 8,918 (1.48%)
8. Ireland - 8,053 (1.34%)
9. United Arab Emirates - 6,594 (1.09%)
10. Puerto Rico - 5,061 (0.84%)

Top 10 Cities
1. London - 15,861 (3.26%)
2. Sydney - 11,781 (1.96%)
3. New York City - 8,389 (1.39%)
4. Auckland - 7,822 (1.3%)
5. Chicago - 5,418 (0.9%)
6. Atlanta - 5,353 (0.89%)
7. Brisbane - 5,281 (0.88%)
8. Dubai - 5,038 (0.84%)
9. Toronto - 4,534 (0.75%)
10. Seattle - 4,036 (0.67%)

Top 10 States (USA)
1. California
2. Texas
3. New York
4. Michigan
5. Florida
6. Georgia
7. North Carolina
8. Indiana
9. Illinois
10. Washington

Top 8 States & Territories (Australia)
1. New South Wales
2. Queensland
3. Victoria
4. South Australia
5. ACT
6. Western Australia
7. Tasmania
8. Northern Territory

Top 10 Provinces (Canada)
1. Ontario
2. British Columbia
3. Quebec
4. Alberta
5. Saskatchewan
6. Newfoundland and Labrador
7. Manitoba
8. Nova Scotia
9. New Brunswick
10. Prince Edward Island

Most Active Country: Croatia by time on site (35 min 46 sec) and Italy by pages per visit (22.86)

III. YWS Activity

Reviews Per Day


Reviews By Month
January: 2213
February: 2492
March: 1750
April: 1582
May: 2551
June: 2980
July: 2444
August: 2725
September: 2886
October: 2273
November: 2280
December: 3103

Literary Comments Per Day (incl. reviews)


Literary Comments By Month
January: 3754
February: 3768
March: 3078
April: 2812
May: 4247
June: 4751
July: 4204
August: 5075
September: 5706
October: 5211
November: 4515
December: 6398

Literary Works Per Day


Literary Works By Month
January: 706
February: 624
March: 560
April: 667
May: 517
June: 607
July: 564
August: 638
September: 651
October: 656
November: 635
December: 817

Profile Comments Per Day


Profile Comments By Month
January: 12662
February: 9693
March: 8784
April: 7817
May: 10058
June: 13561
July: 17359
August: 14690
September: 14202
October: 13289
November: 10961
December: 13379

Gifts Per Day


Top 10 Gifters
@Hannah - 796
@Audy - 689
@Rydia - 638
@Deanie - 570
@ArcticMonkey - 508
@Iggy - 364
@PenguinAttack - 363
@ShadowVyper - 352
@Jonathan - 295
@Griffinkeeper - 287

New Members Per Day


Forum Posts Per Day


Storybook Posts Per Day


Resources Posts Per Day


Top 10 Reviewers
@Hannah - 565
@Deanie - 405
@dragonfphoenix - 389
@Messenger - 354
@dogs - 352
@KnightTeen - 318
@DreamWork - 308
@niteowl - 304
@BlackNether12 - 288
@ArcticMonkey - 286

Top 10 Posters
@Deadman - 2240
@AriaAdams - 1836
@Iggy - 1457
@Rydia - 1392
@Nate - 1297
@umaima - 1270
@Aquestioning - 1269
@Dante - 1236
@BlackNether12 - 1114
@Rosey%20Unicorn - 1000

IV. See Also...

The YWS 2013 Yearbook
The 2013 Literary Spotlight

A couple more quick notes:
- Although it's hard to tell from the graphs above, December was by far the busiest month in terms of visits, and was also the biggest in terms of pageviews.

- Overall, visits were up by 43% versus 2012, and pageviews were up by 48%.

Wow! Feels good to look at this, I'm sure @Nate!?!?

Its really amazing to look at everything this year and know that you were a part of something special!

Curious. Do the spikes in literary works come before or after review day?

Do we know what that jump in new members was?

Tenyo wrote:Curious. Do the spikes in literary works come before or after review day?

Do we know what that jump in new members was?

Yep! The spikes in literary works come before the Review Days, and the big huge spike was the Free Literary Work Day in May, which was the first time we started doing those (on a regular monthly basis that is). However, there's a double spike that happens in late September and early October, which ties into the jump in new members.

The jump in new members happened when a school temporarily used YWS as part of a homework assignment. The assignment was to post an article on YWS about either technology or being a teenager, and then comment on one another's works. So you had a jump in literary submissions and a jump in new members at the same time.

Nate wrote:Most Active Country: Croatia by time on site (35 min 46 sec) and Italy by pages per visit (22.86)

That's me lurking all the time and Bro buzzing around.
@Baal

These statistics look great, let's keep that up for another year now :3

Indiana is number eight. Probably because I spend so much time on here and I got five friends to jump on. IT should rise this year!

Oregon wasn't anywhere on the list... California was number one though, probably because of @Iggy.

If anyone needs me, I'll be squeeing about seeing math in action...

Haha, yes to Poster!

I love these stat things <3

Woah, nice. Is so interesting looking at stats! (that's not sarcasm...)

Ohhhh, cool!

Top gifter~
Top reviewer~
Party like it's 2013 and then get back to work~