Drowned in Sound's stats : Jan 1st - June 1st 2009

DROWNED IN SOUND
Google Analytics Traffic Stats: January 1st - June 1st 2009

Visitors

Total visits to the site: 3,072,847 (average 607k per month)
Total unique visitors to the site: 1,359,201 (average 304k per month)
New visitors: + 7.74% (based on same period in 2008)

Pages

Total number of page views: 15,500,330
Average number of pages viewed by visitor: 5.04
Average time spent on the site: 6mins 44s

Top 10 Most Read Articles

1. DrownedinSound's Top 50 Albums of 2008
2. Review: The Horrors Primary Colours
3. Review: The Decemberists Hazards of Love
4. News: 95% of Downloads in 2008 were Illegal - DiS Reacts
5. Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!
6. Review: The Prodigy Invaders Must Die
7. Review: Gallows Grey Britain
8. DiS' Guide to Musicians on Twitter
9. DrownedinSound's 40 Songs of the First Quarter - Spotify Playlist
10. Review: Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion

Top 5 Forum Threads

1. Weekend Football Thread
2. ATP The Fans Strike Back
3. Football Thread
4. I'm back from ATP and I have the worst case of the blues...
5. The Latitude Headliners

Referring Sites

1. Google
2. Wikipedia
3. Twitter
4. Facebook
5. Metacritic.

Geographically, this is where our users come from:

1.	United Kingdom	2,140,758	69.67%
2.	United States	393,903	12.82%
3.	Canada	67,508	2.20%
4.	Australia	49,458	1.61%
5.	Germany	38,763	1.26%
6.	Ireland	38,739	1.26%
7.	France	30,769	1.00%
8.	Netherlands	25,916	0.84%
9.	Spain	18,768	0.61%
10.	Sweden	17,989	0.59%

All of these numbers are from Google Analytics.

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Quantcast (very US skewed) http://www.quantcast.com/drownedinsound.com


Additionally, @DrownedinSound now has 6,535 followers on Twitter.