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  • April 2023:
    Reviews - 451
    Pageviews - 238,764

    In April 2022, there were 283,601 pageviews, so this is a fairly significant decline. But, the number of reviews remained about the same (471 reviews in April 2022 versus 451 this year).


  • March 2023:
    Reviews - 437
    Pageviews - 313,231*

    March '23 beat out March '22 by 2,000 pageviews! Unfortunately, it also came in with four fewer reviews. All in all, the two months had similar levels of activity, which is an accomplishment onto itself as YWS had numerous technical issues from April '22 to November '22 that would cause site activity to decrease by 50%. So for things to bounce back so quickly is great!

    * The pageviews number leaves out the "Click me instead" and "Do not click" pages for the April Fools buttons. Including those increases the pageviews to 337,129.


  • February 2023:
    Reviews - 548 (57% increase over 2022 average)
    Pageviews - 243,263

    In February 2023, YWS also switched to Google Analytics v4, which does not maintain continuity of data with the previous version of Google Analytics that YWS was using. As a result, the unique visitors and visits statistics are unavailable for this month. They will be available again in March 2023.



    Shady Are “unique visitors” individual accounts or IP addresses? Like, just curious if last month there were 9,803 individual humans who logged in or if that number is possibly inflated due to the fact that a lot of people log in on mobile AND laptop AND work/school etc.?
    Mar 1, 2023


    Nate It's a combination of IP addresses and cookies. Google analytics stores a cookie in your browser so that even if your IP address changes, like it frequently does if you're using mobile data, you'll still be counted as one unique visitor. Likewise, if there's ten people accessing YWS on the same IP address but different devices, they're counted as ten unique visitors because Google stores a different cookie for each.

    But, the unique visitors metric is mostly people who get here via search. The number of registered accounts to log into YWS in the past month is 502, some number of which are alt accounts.

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  • January 2023:
    Reviews - 531 (52% increase over 2022 average)
    Pageviews - 250,864
    Unique Visitors - 9,803
    Visits - 25,804


  • So how did YWS do during the Review Day? Since the stats go by US Pacific Coast time, Review Day went from 4pm on February 22 to 4pm on the 23.

    February 22:
    Visits - 2,044
    Pageviews - 31,710
    Unique Visitors - 925

    February 23:
    Visits - 2,198
    Pageviews - 32,458
    Unique Visitors - 1,028


  • Haven't been good at keeping this up to date, so here's where YWS stands thus far for February (Feb. 1 - Feb. 11):

    Visits - 21,832
    Pageviews - 254,056
    Unique Visitors - 6,693


  • February 6, 2014:
    Visits - 1,985
    Pageviews - 21,605
    Unique Visitors - 1,015


  • February 5, 2014:
    Visits - 2,032
    Pageviews - 21,017
    Unique Visitors - 1,015

    Did you know? Wednesdays tend to be second least active day of the week by pageviews. The lowest overall? Tuesdays.


  • January 26, 2014:
    Visits - 1,976
    Pageviews - 30,118
    Unique Visitors - 935


  • January 25, 2014:
    Visits - 1,837
    Pageviews - 32,430
    Unique Visitors - 834


  • January 18, 2014:
    Visits - 1,850
    Pageviews - 21,107
    Unique Visitors - 866


  • January 17, 2014:
    Visits - 1,801
    Pageviews - 21,763
    Unique Visitors - 926


  • January 16, 2014:
    Visits - 1,855
    Pageviews - 21,390
    Unique Visitors - 949


  • January 15, 2014:
    Visits - 1,864
    Pageviews - 20,347
    Unique Visitors - 993


  • January 14, 2014:
    Visits - 1,948
    Pageviews - 20,583
    Unique Visitors - 1,042

    Special Note: This now marks the 12th day in a row that visits to the site have exceeded 1,900. By comparison, this happened only 11 times throughout all of 2013.




When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
— Walter Lippmann