January 2009:
January 2009 was an interesting month, especially because I had not bothered to even look at the stats until a month after January finished. So I ended up being quite surprised!
For one, the number of visits reached 49,134 for the first time ever. In fact, that's an almost 20% increase over the next closest month of April 2008! Pageviews reached 691,320, which again is astonishing.
Of the visits, 16,355 were unique visitors, which itself is equal to the visits number from just a little over a year ago. When people visited the site, they stayed for an average of sixteen minutes and looked at 14 pages. Since this is an average, keep in mind that 17% of all visits lasted more than 30 minutes! Although at the same time, 31% of all visits last less than 10 seconds!
By the way, Firefox is getting very close to overtaking Internet Explorer on YWS. I would not be surprised if more YWS members use FF than IE by 2010.
The international situation is changing too! In the past, there's always been small towns in the top 10 cities, but now it's pretty much big national cities such as London and New York. Here's the top 10:
- London
New York
Sydney
Toronto
Auckland
Seattle
Denver
Manchester
Adeliade
Glasgow
Notice that only three cities in the top 10 are in the United States now; it used to be majority US. London remains at top, and Sydney is sinking! For the old-timers, you'll remember back when Sydney was number one. The big surprise, though, is the emergence of Toronto, which marks the first time a Canadian city has broken the top 10.
And to round it all up, the top 10 countries:
- United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Finland
India
Phillipines
Singapore
Germany
2008 v. 2007
The number in italics is 2008; the percentage at the end is the difference between 2008 and 2007.
Visits: 471,785 292,136 +61.49%
Pageviews: 6,470,655 4,329,295 +49.46%
Absolute Unique Visitors: 147,265 74,623 +97.35%
Posts: 189,939 122,164 +64.3%
2007 Detailed Stats
Fiction: 21379 posts
Fiction Topics: 3614 topics
Poetry: 13592 posts
Poetry Topics: 2239 topics
Storybooks: 15747 posts
Literary Misc: (minus storybooks)[/b] 6545 posts
General Discussion Total: 19376 posts
The Lounge: 5359 posts
Randomness: 8114 posts
Debate: 1747 posts
Groups: 15280 posts
Other: 28498 posts
Total: 122164 posts
2008 Detailed Stats
Fiction: 35576 posts
Fiction Topics: 5462 topics
Poetry: 20686 posts
Poetry Topics: 3166 topics
Storybooks: 34753 posts
Literary Misc:(minus storybooks) 7993 posts
General Discussion Total: 30210 posts
The Lounge: 8586 posts
Randomness: 13347 posts
Debate: 7629 posts
Groups: 29199 posts
Other: 23893 posts
Total: 189939 posts
Gender:
Points: 11417
Reviews: 425