5 Months Stats

Since our highest upload month (ever) in Jan the number of uploads has steadily decreased to numbers slightly higher than last years numbers. The community itself, however, is very active, and engaged, reviewing nearly 2.75 times the amount on the exact same number of uploads as this time last year. It's hard to say (without a lot more number crunching) what it all means.

The astounding number is the unique trackback URLs which is averaging 100/month. Many of those are for older tracks ('Revolve', etc.) but still, just the (uncorrelated) frequency of having 1 URL coming in for every 5 uploads is crazy.

month    reviews  uploads
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2009-05    1376      379
2009-04    1327      459
2009-03    1131      472
2009-02    1267      497
2009-01    1602      543

Traffic up 23% over last year

An analysis of visitor data for Q1 2009 shows that 11% more people are coming to the site, hitting the site over 18% more often resulting in overall pageviews up over 23% from the same period last year.

This despite the fact that we've "lost" our biggest referrer: creativecommons.org (Before a site re-design last year, a link to ccM used to be on every page of their site. After the re-design, we are only on the "Projects" page.) cc.org referrals are down 44% as a result but overall referrals are only down 8%, which means we are linked to a lot more than a year ago.

The majority of the growth seems to be non-US, mainly European (excluding France) and South America. (It's tempting to go hog-wild on multi-lingual features but the fact is I refuse to get involved until and unless we can secure a full-time admin/support person for each language we support.)

The numbers are all pretty small by Web standards but it's all enough to swell my head and tells me we're doing OK.

Full details (with real numbers) is here.

1 out of 10 Remixes in a Video/Podcast

In the last few days we passed over 1,000 trackbacks, the vast majority of those are videos and podcasts.

As I right this there are over 8,400 remixes on ccMixter, over 800 of which were used in those videos and podcasts.

That means 1 out of 10 remixes on ccMixter is being picked up in podcasts and videos.

I think that rocks pretty hard.

The Year in Review(s)

I was really nervous when I saw the review numbers for Nov. especially when considered a trend (i.e. downward spiral). But the site bounced back strong in Dec. Of course without corollary data it's impossible to guess was going on in autumn but it certainly looks like we get a lot more attention when school is out.

# reviews | month   |
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      568 | 2008-01 | 
      536 | 2008-02 | 
     1183 | 2008-03 | 
     1221 | 2008-04 | 
      865 | 2008-05 | 
     1218 | 2008-06 | 
     1031 | 2008-07 | 
      756 | 2008-08 | 
      890 | 2008-09 | 
      883 | 2008-10 | 
      695 | 2008-11 | 
     1036 | 2008-12 |

Surge in Reviews

I was feeling there's been quite a lot of reviewing going recently. I was right, last month we had the most reviews ever, by a lot (!)

#reviews
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1223 2008-3
555 2008-2
583 2008-1
758 2007-12
914 2007-11
607 2007-10
521 2007-9
616 2007-8
472 2007-7
632 2007-6
679 2007-5
631 2007-4
803 2007-3
501 2007-2
532 2007-1
473 2006-12
363 2006-11
528 2006-10
347 2006-9
304 2006-8
482 2006-7
468 2006-6
612 2006-5
623 2006-4
660 2006-3
247 2006-2
353 2006-1
197 2005-12
198 2005-11