As Canberra’s only media outlet giving honest reports about its audience we’ve made a habit of giving a quarterly peek into Google’s analytics take on us.
So comparing Q1 2012 to Q1 2011 we find:
- — Visits: 1,086,481 up from 746,505 for a a 46% increase.
— Unique Visitors: 406,952, up from 280,874 for a 44% increase.
— Pageviews: 3,358,163, up from 2,410,628 for a 39% increase
It’s been a lot of hard work but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t immensely satisfying.
And now to the bits you’ve all been waiting for. The 20 most read stories in the first three months of 2012 were:
- 1. Rathbone Reveals All
2. Thar she blows! New Cotter Dam overspilled
3. Flood pictures March 2012
4. Julia trapped by an angry mob at the Tent Embassy?
5. How’s the affordability?
6. The Lake Ginninderra teepee is a protest against UC student accommodation
7. The Steve Nogas incident at Summernats
8. Ladies, are leering men holding back your swimming? The Greens have an answer
9. Do you know this alleged rapist?
10. Rafting sullies style
11. “tits out” request from 15yr olds
12. Point to point cameras go live in 10 days time
13. How you can fight the ACT Government’s Bag Ban
14. Jury Service
15. Panel beater living in my campervan
16. KEEP LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING
17. All Bar Nun to close by 1 February?
18. Duxton opens its doors. A review
19. The Brodburger returns
20. Alleged dog mutilating teen to face court this morning
Gosh, an exciting start to the year eh?
Now, who’s getting the Google love? The 50 most searched terms which brought traffic to RiotACT (excluding variants of RiotACT) in Q1 2012 were:
- 1. skyfire 2012
2. brodburger
3. steve nogas
4. cotter dam
5. cotter dam cam
6. the workers
7. summernats
8. joel monaghan
9. duxton canberra
10. woolworths dunlop
11. keren rowland
12. erin molan
13. brumbies 2012 draw
14. amber jane westin
15. marc emerson
16. ginninderra falls
17. causeway canberra
18. costco canberra
19. corinbank
20. brumbies draw 2012
21. duxton o’connor
22. kambah pool
23. pest control canberra
24. honky tonks
25. agl house canberra
26. all bar nun
27. sentinel apartments belconnen
28. amber westin
29. bulk billing doctors canberra
30. dayne rathbone
31. car detailing canberra
32. fish and chips canberra
33. pilates canberra
34. bathroom renovations canberra
35. jeff manny
36. fleur hawes
37. kurt kennedy
38. mully williams
39. cafe injoy
40. myer tuggeranong
41. late night chemist canberra
42. sky fire 2012
43. griffith vietnamese
44. brodburger canberra
45. cooking classes canberra
46. charcoal restaurant canberra
47. canberra parking in loading zones
48. brod burger
49. kim sattler
50. honkytonks canberra