4 January 2011

2010 in Rioting

| johnboy
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Google Analytics graph of RiotACT for 2010

Well that was a wild ride of a year.

The graph above has some points of note. Gratifyingly my return as full time editor in April brought about both a steady rise, and an ability to maximise our potential as stories broke.

Highlights for readership spikes were, in chronological order,

Visits: 2,463,467
Pageviews: 6,465,119
Absolute Unique Visitors: 903,478

(Top rated stories and search terms used to reach us below)

Most visited pages:

    1. RiotACT
    2. RiotACT – Part 2
    3. *That* Joel Monaghan picture.
    4. Four killed in Canberra police chase
    5. Has anyone seen Olivia?
    6. RiotACT – Part 3
    7. GDE collapses onto Barton Highway
    8. Law & Justice
    9. The 9 December floods
    10. RiotACT – Part 4
    11. Giving 4yo’s syringes?!
    12. Reasons for Erin Molan to leave Canberra?
    13. Drivers Beware – YELLOW LANCER
    14. Dealing with noisy neighbours
    15. A corker from impactednurse
    16. Death in Dunlop
    17. The Hughes Shooting
    18. RiotACT – Part 5
    19. 18, pregnant, charged in relation to a murder, and now done for shoplifting. Meet Camilla Krutsky
    20. Police shoot savage dogs in Macgregor

And the top search terms that brought traffic to the site?

    1. Variations on riot act
    2. Variations on joel monaghan
    3. brodburger
    4. dickson dumpling house
    5. sinsations canberra
    6. griffith vietnamese
    7. jorian gardner
    8. kambah pool
    9. erin molan
    10. anu singh
    11. central cafe gungahlin
    12. charcoal restaurant canberra
    13. roller derby canberra
    14. digital radio canberra
    15. gai brodtmann
    16. babar woden
    17. corin forest
    18. canberra things have changed
    19. limelight cinema
    20. jack pappas barrister

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Hasn’t Jack Pappas sold his business in the ACT years a go and moved interstate? So why the hits?

screaming banshee9:12 pm 04 Jan 11

7. jorian gardner
Would that be jorian himself doing the searching?

9. erin molan
I’m guessing Mr Gillespie

Great job JB. Definitely more up to date than the Canberra Times.

20. jack pappas barrister

Let me guess. The IP on those searches tracks back to… jackpappas.com.au?

Pommy bastard3:21 pm 04 Jan 11

I miss Mully.

Great work, interesting to see Brodburger so high on the bringing traffic in list

Grumpy Old Fart12:35 pm 04 Jan 11

Keep up the good work and sack the Canberra Times

Well done, JB! thanks for the ride!

its been a blast JB – Lets do it again this year!

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