NEN – record breaking November stats

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November was a record month for North Edinburgh News – there were 10, 496 visits to the NEN blog last month, our best figures yet. The daily average – 350 – is also our highest ever.

The most popular articles in November were the rise of Blackhall Athletic, the BBC DIY SOS refurbishment of The Yard and the Welcome to Muirhouse photo exhibition – three very different stories from different geographical corners of our readership area but with one thing in common: they’re all positive, good news stories!

Makes you think …?

 

NEN: the joy of stats

In the interests of openness and transparency (and because it’s quite easy to do), we’re delighted to break down the NEN’s online figures for October.

Last month we welcomed 10 381 visitors to our blog, marginally up on September (10 307) and our best ever figure. Our October figure last year was just  2 262 so we can confidently say that we are going the right way! (I knew my arithmetic ‘O’ Level would come in handy sometime!)

The average number of visits per day was 335, slightly down on September’s 344 (which was our best ever).

Our busiest days were Thursday 11th with 697 visits and Tuesday 30th, when the blog received 672 visitors.

Our most-read stories in October were: Body found on Silverknowes Beach (391), the  Muirhouse Barriers issue (151) and Welcome to Muirhouse (126), about the forthcoming photo exhibition.

See there you have it – some fascinating stats from the NEN … come on, wake up!

There are still a couple of places available at tonight’s NENgage social media workshop in Stockbridge Library at 5.45pm. You’ll never find statistics boring again!

NEN passing three cyberspace milestones!

Some statistical information for all you cyber-geeks out there – the NEN blog will pass three important (for us, anyway!) milestones over the next day or so.

We’re getting very very close to 750 posts, 50,000 all-time views and 250 comments! We think that’s not too bad for a wee community newspaper and it’s nice to be able to shout about it!

The blog was born on 19 January 2011, with a post to introduce the NEN and to welcome readers. There was an understandable silence shortly after that as the NEN’s funding was discontinued, but now – slowly but surely – the figures are creeping up.

Our thanks to you for your contributions and your comments, to our old friends for sticking with us and our new followers who are now beginning to share their stories. Our thanks to you all for helping to keep the blog fresh, interesting, topical and, hopefully, fun to read.

And thanks to our readers, wherever you come from – but a special mention to our loyal friend in Moldova!

Next target? 1000!