Passage of new water legislation and the drought helped to make 2014 a phenomenal record breaking year here at Maven’s Notebook, thanks to you readers. Here’s a look back at what was hot last year.
Vital Statistics:
First of all, some numbers:
- Total page views in 2014 was 447,630, up 292% over last year. Total page views for 2013 was 113,919, representing an increase of 333,711 page views, or 292%!
- August the busiest month: The passage of new legislation helped to push August to a record month with 45,299 page views served in 13,255 visits.
- Readership has remained strong afterwards, averaging over 41,000 page views per month through the end of the year.
- December 9th the busiest day: The Brown Administration’s opposition to HR 5781 pushed readership to 2913 page views and 1,119 visits on that day.
- Average visitors and reads per day: The Notebook averages between 750-900 visitors per day, depending on content, with visitors reading on average over 3 articles each visit.
- Social Media and Email: Maven’s Notebook has over 1100 readers on email service, 3167 Twitter followers, and 283 Facebook likes, with more readers, followers, and likes being added each day.
- 1225 new posts were added, with Tuesday being the busiest posting day.
Drum roll, please … The most clicked on in 2014!
Here are the most read posts of 2014:
- Reservoir and water conditions for January 26, 2014
- This just in … Study says California has allocated five times more surface water than the state actually has
- Satellites, river stage graphs, rainfall maps, atmospheric rivers, and more: Internet resources for watching the storm and waterways
- Maven’s Minutes: Delta Stewardship Council’s drought panel: “Unprecedented conditions may result in unprecedented actions.”
- Dr. Peter Gleick on The Untapped Potential of California’s Water Supply
Here’s what readers clicked on most during the year:
- The Sites Reservoir document page (referenced in several posts dealing with storage)
- The State Water Board’s watershed analysis showing which watersheds might be curtailed
- Pumps dropped from Delta tunnel plan, from the Sacramento Bee
- The Delta Stewardship Council’s comments on the BDCP
- Westside water calamity unfolding, from the Fresno Bee, July 19th
And a few surprises, too:
The first list shows the top posts that I posted in 2014, but there are actually other posts that were read more. If I consider the most read posts in 2014, regardless of the year they were posted, the most read post in 2014 is actually California Water Policy Seminar Series: Jay Lund: Insurmountable Opportunities, a post from February, 2013. And the 14th most read post is Michelle Sneed’s In her own words: USGS hydrologist discusses subsidence in the Central Valley, another post from 2013. So Jay, Michelle – your words are epic.
Funding …
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Here’s to 2015!
So in closing, a big heartfelt thank you goes out to my readers for making 2014 a record breaking year. There’s so much more ahead 2015, so stay tuned!
Regards,
Maven
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