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Catching up with five months of most viewed posts on The Batavian

By Howard B. Owens

Hard to believe I haven't done this since June, but here are the most viewed posts for each month of June, July, August, September and October.

June:

July:

August:

September:

October:

*That post showing up from 2010 is rather odd. As near as I can tell, that post on The Batavian is a top-ranking search result for "drug free posters." I'm guessing October was the month for students to look for ideas for creating a poster for a drug-free poster contest.

Most viewed posts for April and May

By Howard B. Owens

The most viewed posts on The Batavian for 2011

By Howard B. Owens

More than 3.3 million times people visited The Batavian in 2011 to find out what's going on in Genesee County.

That's up from 2.5 million visits in 2010, when the site served up 4.3 million page views. In 2011, The Batavian served 5.6 million page views.

Here are the most viewed posts of 2011:

Stories denoted with (*) were reported first, and in some cases, exclusively, on The Batavian.

Below are the most viewed posts for December, November and October. Again, stories you read first on The Batavian are denoted with an (*).

December:

November:

October:

Happy New Year from The Batavian!

Most-viewed posts on The Batavian for July 2011

By Howard B. Owens

Here are the most viewed posts for July 2011:

July was a record traffic month for The Batavian, beating out records set in August 2010.

Visits: 335,359
Page Views: 601,325
Unique Visitors: 81,875

For comparison sake, the August 2010 numbers:

Visits: 256,391
Page Views: 443,330
Unique Visitors: 70,638

I knew I hadn't posted the most-read posts for a little while, but was surprised to find I hadn't done it since January. After the jump, the missing months.

June 2011:

May 2011: 

April 2011:

March 2011:

February 2011

Record traffic in March, and most viewed posts

By Howard B. Owens

The Batavian set new records in the three key Web traffic stats we watch.

  • Unique visitors: 42,215
  • Visits: 176,152
  • Page Views: 301,889

Unique visitors doesn't necessarily translate into X number of people. The tools that measure Web traffic can only count computers. One person may use two different computers to visit the site in a month, or two people may share the same computer.  But it is a close approximation of number of people who visited the site.

Visits accounts for all the times that people visited the site in the month.  One unique visitor can account for several visits.

Page Views are the number of times a page of the site is downloaded into a Web browser window.

The previous records:

  • Unique Visitors: 38,057 in August
  • Visits: 155,782 in January
  • Page Views: 292,176 in August

Thank you all for your support.

Here's the most viewed posts for March:

Most Viewed posts for 2009

By Howard B. Owens

More than 1.3 million times in 2009, people logged onto The Batavian to find out what was going on in Genesee County.

Here's the Top 10 most viewed posts in 2009:

And while we're at it, here at the Top 10 posts for December:

People logged into The Batavian in December more than 149,000 times to find out what's going on in Genesee County.

Top 10 Stories for November

By Howard B. Owens

I'm just getting around, finally, to doing a post about the Top 10 most viewed stories for November, and since I never did it for October, those stories are listed below, as well.

November Top 10 Stories

Most popular poll for November: Were you surprised to learn about meth labs being found in Genesee?

October Top 10 Stories

Most popular poll for October: Today's Poll: Did the county do the right thing removing the volunteer-installed bridge on Sour Springs Road?

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