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,
- — The Mullocalypse
— The Collapse of the Gungahlin Drive Extension
— Woof! Woof! (the really big one)
— The Steve Tucker email
— Quangers aflood
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