On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 05:01:51PM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
As stickster posted mid last month, we met our goal of 3 million
pageviews
in the middle of December, but now the year has finished, here are some
quick stats from the year:
* Total Pageviews for the year were 3,146,343
* Best month was November, with 389,554 pageviews
* Best week was the week of Monday November 13, with 160,105 pageviews
* Best day was November 14 with 43,140 pageviews
* Our average pageviews per day was 8,620. The releases help, bump this up
of course, but the averages for each month have been trending up in the
latter part of the year:
** Jan - 7,666 average pageviews / day
** Feb - 7,470 average pageviews / day
** Mar - 7,624 average pageviews / day
** Apr - 7,552 average pageviews / day
** May - 7,003 average pageviews / day
** Jun - 6,639 average pageviews / day
** Jul - 11,826 average pageviews / day
** Aug - 9,057 average pageviews / day
** Sep - 7,482 average pageviews / day
** Oct - 9,345 average pageviews / day
** Nov - 12,985 average pageviews / day
** Dec - 8,686 average pageviews / day
Anyone have any thoughts on our goal for this year? We have been steadily
trending up since we started tracking stats on the magazine:
** 2013 - 2,641
** 2014 - 666,601
** 2015 - 1.9 million
** 2016 - 2.3 million
** 2017 - 3.1 million
As a strawman, I suggest we set a 4M pageview goal for 2018. It's
ambitious but our trend suggests that with quality content and
effective social network use, we could hit it.
What about a breakdown of the (non-release announcement) biggest
articles in terms of pageviews? Maybe that would help us identify a
segment we can add some focus too. Not exclusively, but perhaps to
guide specific monthly objectives.
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