Young Writers Society

In May 2011, the Young Writers Society had a record 4,967 reviews. But, May also was the fortunate recipient of two Review Days and also the month-long Review Teams experiment. Moreover, while the month-long Review Teams experiment ultimately petered out, it was initially a roaring success leading to 1,000+ reviews on the May Day Review Day. Given all that, I expected a large slump in reviews going into June as a lot of people would have review burn-out.

Well, I was wrong.

June 2011 didn't set any new records, but review activity still came in at 4,612 reviews! That's a slump but only a very small one. However, what did fall big time was the review ratio. With 1,478 new works posted in June, the review ratio came in at 3.12. That's below average for this year, but still not all that bad. Besides, I'm rather glad to see so many new works. YWS is here to promote creative writing after all.

Without further ado, here are the stats:

Reviews: 4,612
Literary Works: 1,478
Reviews greater than 500 characters: 3,120
Reviews > 1000: 1,794
All literary comments: 6,161

Total Topics: 1,767
Total Posts: 12,429
Profile Comments: 17,210
New Members: 548 (new record!)

Pageviews: 896,664
Visits: 66,819 (new record!)
Unique Visitors: 13,085 (new record!)

Top 5 Pages (besides front page):
Notifications
Story Theme Generator
Private Messages
Community
Discover Works

Top 5 Browsers:
Internet Explorer - 26.04%
Firefox - 25.53%
Chrome - 24.71%
Safari - 18.75%
Android Browser - 2.03%

As a quick note, Google Analytics lumps together Safari on iPhone and Safari on Mac. It does not lump together Chrome and the Android Browser.


Top 10 Countries:
1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada
4. Australia
5. Philippines
6. New Zealand
7. India
8. Czech Republic
9. France
10. Ireland

Top 10 Cities:
1. London, UK
2. Sydney, Australia
3. Ottawa, Canada
4. Richmond, TX, USA
5. Toronto, Canada
6. Grand Rapids, MI, USA
7. Auckland, NZ
8. Cebu, Philippines
9. Houston, TX, USA
10. Prince George, Canada

Where are all the Canadians coming from? I love it.

Rosey Unicorn wrote:Where are all the Canadians coming from? I love it.

Canada, obviously.

New Members: 548 (new record!)

This is terribly exciting! It pleases me greatly.

Top 5 Pages (besides front page):
Notifications
Story Theme Generator
Private Messages
Community
Discover Works

You can tell we had a couple contests going last month!

Master_Yoda wrote:

Rosey Unicorn wrote:Where are all the Canadians coming from? I love it.

Canada, obviously.

Nice one.

You can tell we had a couple contests going last month!

No kidding.

All literary comments: 6,161

Nice number, ja?

Also; look! The four metros in India now have a spot! Yay!

Czech Republic/France/Ireland... you should consider sleeping with one eye open.

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