State of the Riot for 2011

So that’s 2011 done and dusted. In late December we took a look at the most read stories of the year.

Unlike the rest of Canberra’s media we’ve always made a habit of sharing our readership data. So here’s how Google Analytics rates our 2011 compared to 2010.

— Visits: 3,320,398. Up from 2,463,467 a 35% growth.

— Unique Visitors: 1,063,255. Up from 903,478 for 18% growth.

— Pageviews: 10,831,181 up from 6,465,119 a growth of 68% !

So that was a pretty good year for us. Our thanks to everyone who’s contributed and to you dear reader for sticking around.

If you have been enjoying the website then might we suggest you reward yourself with a premium membership to help pay the bills and preserve our editorial integrity?

Go on, it will make you more attractive to your preferred gender and frankly our premium members make like bandits with freebie swag (kegs of beer, tickets to events, bottles of wine).

Now the bit many of you have been waiting for. What were the search terms that brought traffic to RiotACT in 2011. Which local celebrities are the public actually interested in?

Well here we go (variations of RiotACT, duplicates, and some uses of “canberra” excluded):

1. joel monaghan
2. brodburger
3. costco
4. erin molan
5. john harrington
6. mitchell fire
7. michael steep
8. griffith vietnamese
9. dickson dumpling house
10. brand depot
11. car detailing canberra
12. honky tonks (and other variations prominent)
13. central cafe gungahlin
14. police shooting wanniassa
15. red herring cafe
16. allhomes narnia aslan
17. kambah pool
18. woolworths dunlop
19. freestyle tattoo
20. rebecca massey
21. red hill lookout cafe
22. vietnamese erindale
23. 2cc
24. alex beddows
25. pilates canberra
26. cooking classes canberra
27. encore pizza florey
28. jeremy paul
29. ginninderra medical centre
30. corinbank 2011
31. disposal stores canberra
32. ginninderra falls
33. johnboy banned from wig and pen
34. massage canberra
35. fish and chips canberra
36. double glazing canberra
37. fish shack
38. tharwa tunnel canberra times
39. smoking in cars with children
40. cotter dam
41. bulk billing doctors canberra
42. maurizio rao
43. anu singh
44. pest control canberra
45. majura parkway
46. bike shops canberra
47. dermatologist canberra
48. englobo group
49. phillip medical centre
50. the workers
51. anna napoli
52. majura festival 2010
53. breakfast in canberra
54. brumes home games 2011
55. mildenhall
56. canberra news
57. occupy canberra
58. months drive
59. tuggeranong dog park
60. furniture canberra
61. triple j tuggeranong
62. crust pizza
63. mt franklin chalet
64. david eastman
65. chickens for sale canberra
66. rapid 1 canberra police
67. cafe injoy
68. breakfast canberra
69. u brew it
70. cotter beast
71. double glazed windows canberra
72. phillip tu
73. strip club canberra
74. ainslie village
75. solar panels canberra
76. amber jane westin
77. nathan doherty
78. honeysuckle creek camp grounds
79. soo bakh do
80. hyatt high tea canberra total
81. traction services
82. curing drive, fraser
83. katie bender
84. adsl2 west macgregor
85. top 20 suburbs in australia
86. scott mcdougall
87. aussie junk
88. adfa sex scandal
89. iphone repairs canberra
90. computer fair canberra
91. waxing canberra
92. canberra car detailing
93. jim murphy
94. ugg boots canberra
95. matthew massey
96. canberra photographer
97. spina bifida
98. revolve canberra
99. millissa gillard
100. dentist canberra