May 2009 Site Stats

Traffic to the Richmond Wiki slowed considerably in May (total visits down 50% from previous 31-day period) for two primary reasons:

There was a huge lift in traffic in April related to the Monument Avenue Easter on Parade. May did not have a comparable article.
I did not have enough time to keep adding and updating content. The relationship stems (I think) from the fact that after I make a lot of updates or other people add new articles, I share it via the @RichmondWiki twitter account and this draws in visits and blog mentions.

Here are the numbers for May:

May 2009 Site Stats

Most Popular Articles

Page	Pageviews	Time on Page (s)	Bounce Rate (%)
/wiki/Main_Page	397	36.8	0.26
/wiki/WWBT	130	51	0.48
/wiki/Maymont	100	100.4	0.63
/wiki/List_of_Twitter_Users	91	81.8	0.72
/wiki/Category:Things_to_Do	72	21.3	0.5
/wiki/Haunted_Houses	68	47.8	0.63
/wiki/Category:Bars_and_Restaurants	61	15.5	0.38
/wiki/Special:RecentChanges	60	32.6	0.25
/wiki/Category:Businesses	45	19.6	0.83
/wiki/Main_Street_Java	42	105	0.48
/blog/	41	130.2	0.38
/wiki/Birthday_Deals	38	50.8	0.96
/wiki/July_4th_Fireworks	35	24.5	0.79
/wiki/Kanpai_Japanese_Steakhouse	34	27.9	0.78
/wiki/Category:Blogs	33	26.2	1
/blog/2008/10/how-to-add-rel-nofollow-to-mediawiki-edit-links/	31	333.8	0.82
/wiki/Bryan_Norwood	31	28.1	0.38
/blog/2009/04/spam-attack-reversed/	28	108.2	0.81
/blog/2009/04/mediawiki-wysiwyg-coming-soon/	24	88.2	0.61
/wiki/Ryan_Nobles	24	29.1	0.6
/wiki/Second_Baptist_Church	23	60.2	1
/wiki/Category:Community_Organizations	19	8	0
/wiki/Category:Nonprofits	19	13	0
/wiki/Category:Arts_and_Culture	16	9.1	0
/wiki/Category:May	16	5.5	0

Source/Medium	Visits	Pages/Visit	Avg. Time on Site (s)
google / organic	486	2.3	62.2
(direct) / (none)	361	2.9	75.4
en.wikipedia.org / referral	70	3.5	103.6
msn / organic	47	1.8	43.7
communitywiki.org / referral	39	3.7	216.2
twitter.com / referral	31	3.7	229.2
yahoo / organic	27	1.4	18.4
aol / organic	21	1.4	12.8
live / organic	19	1.9	21.2
richmondgoodlife.com / referral	16	4.9	58.1

Leave a comment with your request and I’ll share whatever you like.

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1 Jonah June 7, 2009 at 12:34 pm: Lewis Ginter is having a big July 4 celebration and the Garden is free that day. Would that be a good feature article that might help stats for early July? I’ll write it if you want, or you can do a round up and I’ll just write the LGBG part.

Or maybe Allison @ Richmond Bargains Blog will do a round up of free events and fireworks. What do you think?
2 Andrew June 7, 2009 at 12:49 pm: That’s good to know and sounds like fun! I added some details and a link on the July 4th Fireworks page. Feel free to add more details to the Lewis Ginter article as well.

One of my bigger ambitions is to make it easier to submit events like this for some sort of master calendar of events, perhaps that pulls from existing feeds. There are many other community news sites and blogs that do this well (including one of my faves).