Record Mayne Report views and visits in May

By Stephen Mayne
June 4, 2008

The May traffic figures are in and we're continuing to grow steadily. There are two main directories that make up the public website - a words section and a video section. Whilst these member updates are separate again, below are the latest encouraging visitor numbers for the words section.

*Unique Visits or UV are the most accurate statistics for gauging the popularity of a website.

WORDS SECTION STATS

September 2007 | 3,811 UV
This article was the most popular for the month Murdoch Campaign with 500 views for the month.

October 2007 | 3,477 UV
Again the top article for this month was the Murdoch Campaign with 397 views, but this article Top Stories was just as popular with 357 views.

November 2007 | 7,587 UV
With traffic beginning to grow, the two most popular articles for the month were Woolies tells pokies porkies with 540 views and Campaign Costello with 642.

December 2007 | 11,704 UV
The most popular articles this month were Sydney visit, HFA, Schubert, Rich List, Kwoff.com and more with 1006 unique visits and with the beginning of The Mayne Report Rich List, it was the second most popular article for the month with 882 visits.

January 2008 | 17,190 UV
The most popular articles this month were The 187 stocks we've bought in 2008 with 2,483 unique visits. This could be attributed to the downturn in the stock market and people on the search for any information about the market. Secondly was an article about the brewing troubles with ABC Learning Is trouble brewing for ABC Learning? with 550 visits and again the The Mayne Report Rich List remains a well visited article with 527 visits.

February 2008 | 22,952 UV
Three articles broke the 1000 visit mark. Number 1 was The documents behind Rupert's pay-TV piracy battle with 1960 visits. Secondly, What I've been up to lately with 1597 visits is a kind of news feed of recent activities which became instantly popular. Next was the 50 foreign-owned major resource projects with 1141 unique visits.

March 2008 | 21,340 UV
As The Mayne Report Rich List grows toward the goal of 1000 names, so does its popularity with the most visits this month with 1993. Coming in second was our news feed page What I've been up to lately which had 1886 views.

April 2008 | 24,869 UV
The Mayne Report Rich List continues to grow toward the goal of 1000 names, so does its popularity with the most visits this month with 2,456. Our news feed page What I've been up to lately had 2,177 visits and came in second most popular on the site.

May 2008 | 26,477 UV
Reaching our goal of 1000 names for The Mayne Report Rich List and with the release of the BRW rich list, our traffic this month increased once again. The most popular page was our rich list with 3,433 visits. This figure made the rich list the most popular for May and the most popular of all time. Our news feed page What I've been up to lately had nearly 2000 visits and came in second most popular on the site. This month we also reached a peak of over 500,000 hits which is also a Mayne Report record.