As the year draws to a close, the data is in! Here’s how the year stacked up …
There were 577,000+ views served over 173,700+ visits, an increase of 28% over last year. August was the busiest month, with 61,361 page views to 21,417 visitors.
Out of 1104 articles posted, the five most read were:
- Lessons from Australia’s millennium drought, posted January 27, 2015
- Groundwater Problems and Prospects, part 1: An overview of groundwater, posted March 12, 2015
- Jay Lund: Water storage and drought in California agriculture, posted May 20, 2015
- Making every drop count: The future of water storage in California, posted February 23, 2015
- Heather Cooley: The Untapped Potential of California’s Water Supply: Efficiency, Reuse, and Stormwater, posted January 21, 2015
Other interesting things to note …
- Most read breaking new item: This just in … DWR moves to install first drought barrier on West False River
- Viral award goes to Groundwater pumping and subsidence in the Central Valley, which received 8800 hits in 24 hours.
- The most read news story: Farmers prevail in court, from the Stockton Record; published July 10, 2015
- The most read blog item: Ten realities for managing the Delta, from the California Water Blog
Maven’s Notebook has 4,194 twitter followers and 394 Facebook likes. Top referring websites were Twitter, Facebook, WineIndustryInsight.com, BC Water News, and Reddit. Not reflected in the referral statistics are the large number of readers that arrive via DWR Water News.
A heartfelt thank you to all who clicked, read, referred and/or shared Maven’s Notebook content, for these awesome stats would simply not be possible without you, my loyal readers! And with that, I wish you all the best in the New Year.
With warmest regards,
Maven (Chris Austin)
As for 2015 … it’s a wrap!
uh, unless there’s breaking news, of course …
