Statistics

The ECOreport was launched, as an international news website, in December 2013. The website was given a more local focus and registered the domain name ‘Cortes Currents’ on February 27, 2019.

Cortes Currents website

Cortes Currents initially used a variety of tracking devices until settling on Google Analytics in Feb 28, 2019.

When Google Analytics organizes user data according to cities, a number of rural areas are ‘not set.’ Much of  CKTZ’s rural listening area appears to fall within the largest ‘not set’ area, which I am calling Rural Area #1. While Cortes Island appears to be in it, the numbers suggest so does a much wider swath of our listening area. I suspect it includes rural areas outside the city limits of Campbell River, Comox and the northern coastal area of qathet.

Early Years (2014 – 2018)

Most of my leading posts were reposts on larger websites. Top 3 articles:

Top 3 articles exclusive to the ECOreport:

2019

This version of Google Analytics goes back to Feb 28, 2019. In the following 10 months 11,251 people visited the website once and 1,532 returned. I do not have the statistics to calculate how many were regular users, only that they came 5,228 times. Top 3 locations: (1) CKTZ’s Listening Area – 19.83%. This breaks down into ‘not set’ area #1 (a much broader area that includes Cortes Island) – (12.12%) 80 return and 1,378 new users; Campbell River – (6,75%) 52 return and 761 new users; Powell River (0.74%) 2 return and 87 new users; Comox – (0.22%) 3 return and 24 new users. (2) Vancouver – (9.97%) 138 return and 1,061 new visitors. (3) Richmond, BC – (3.74%) 66 return and 384 new visitors

Top posts during the 10 months from 2019:

2020

In 2020, I switched back to the calculator that comes with Jetpack on Feb 10. My only records from this period are an aggregate count ending on Dec 31, 2020:

2021

I switched back to Google Analytics on May 21, 2021. In the little more than 7 months that followed, 32, 888 people visited Cortes Currents and 4,028 returned to see more. 2,014 came more than 26 times and 327 came more than 200 times.

This graph was compiled using data from two tally systems

Some top posts in 2021, in terms of views:

2022

43,998 people visited Cortes Currents and 6,531 were returning users. 4,440 came at least 26 times and 1,042 came more than 200 times.

The top 3 locations were: (1) CKTZ’s listening area- 6,154 (23.86%) This breaks down into: ‘Rural Areas’ – 4,253 (16.49%), Campbell River – 1,594 (6.18%), Powell River – 254 (0.98), Comox 53 (0.21%) (2) Vancouver – 2,941 (11.40%), (3) Gibsons – 1,235 (4.79%)

Top posts in 2022, in terms of views

2023

20,820 people have visited Cortes Currents during the first six months of 2023 and 3,101 of these have been ‘returning visitors.’ 2,825 have visited the website at least 15 times, 2,078 at least 26 times and 465 came more than 200 times.

The top 4 locations were (1) CKTZ’s listening area- 5,206 (23.73%) This breaks down into: ‘Rural Areas’ – 3,544 (16.06%), Campbell River – 1,443 (6.54%), Powell River – 201 (0.91%), Comox 53 (0.21%) (2) Vancouver – 2,364 (11.93%), (3) Surrey – 768 (3.48%) (4) Gibsons – 752 (3.41%)

Top posts during the first 6 months of 2023:

Under Google G4A

A new version of Google Analytics (G4A) took effect on July 1, 2023. One of the immediate effects is the biggest ‘Not Set’ area under the old system has been broken up. Instead of a huge undefined area which seemed to be within our broadcast area, the biggest ‘Not Set’ now appears to consist of Cortes Island (and possibly some of the surrounding area). (This identification is supported by the analytics from our podcast system, which identified the #1 location of its users as Mansons Landing – see following). G4A will only process data as far back as October 2022:

The obvious gain is being able to track what appear to be Cortes Island residents (and possibly some people from the surrounding area). The loss is that I may no longer be able to identify 500-600 of our monthly viewers from within the CKTZ broadcast area.

Cortes Currents on CKTZ 89.5 FM radio

Cortes Currents (originally called The ECOreport) was a weekly radio program on CKTZ 89.5 FM from July 8, 2014 until Aug 19, 2020. We switched to daily broadcasts, Mon to Fri, on Monday, Aug 24, 2020.

SoundCloud Podcasts

Our primary podcast system is Soundcloud, where the number of plays have been:

  • In 2016 (weekly broadcasts) 937 plays including:
    • Vancouver – 75
    • Campbell River – 61,
    • Heriot Bay – 36,
    • Victoria – 28
    • (another location from our broadcast area to note) Mansons Landing – 10
  • In 2017 (weekly broadcasts) 898 Plays, including :
    • Mountain VIew, California – 94
    • Vancouver – 68
    • Victoria – 50
    • (and within CKTZ’s broadcast area) Campbell River – 41
    • Mansons Landing – 20
    • Powell River – 3
  • In 2018 (weekly broadcasts) – 1420 plays including:
    • Kamloops – 170
    • Vancouver – 99
    • Mansons Landing – 79
    • Campbell River – 62
    • Powell River – 22
    • Heriot Bay – 9
    • Comox – 6
    • Quathiaski Cove – 6
  • in 2019 (weekly broadcasts) – 3,416 plays – The top 3 locations were
    • (1) Campbell River (348 plays),
    • (2) Mansons Landing (263 plays) and
    • (3)Vancouver (257 plays).
    • Other locations area in the CKTZ FM radio listening area:
      • Heriot Bay (97 plays),
      • Quathiaski Cove (36 plays),
      • Powell River (30 plays),
      • Comox (16 plays)
  • in 2020 (switch to local daily stories mid-year) – 7,423 plays (averaging 619 plays mo)– the top 3 locations were
    • (1) Mansons Landing (1,025 plays),
    • (2) Columbus, Ohio (525 plays),
    • (3) Campbell River (365 plays)
    • Other locations in the CKTZ FM radio listening area: Powell River (116 plays),
      • Heriot Bay (32 plays),
      • Quathiaski Cove (21 plays),
      • Lund (19 plays),
      • Whaletown (17 plays),
      • Comox (15 plays)
  • in 2021 (Daily) – 13,899 (1,158 plays a mo). – the top 3 locations were
    • (1) Mansons Landing (1,556 plays),
    • (2) Columbus, Ohio (1.382 plays),
    • (3) Clifton (New Jersey?) (1,039 pays).
    • Other locations in the CKTZ FM radio listening area: Campbell River (559 plays),
      • Quathiaski Cove (90 plays),
      • Lund (62 plays),
      • Powell River (51 plays),
      • Heriot Bay (49 plays),
      • Comox (35 plays)
  • in 2022 (Daily) – 12,559 (averaging 1,047 plays mo.) – the 3 top locations were
    • Mansons Landing (2,012 plays),
    • Columbus, Ohio (1,815 plays),
    • Vancouver (1,583 plays).
    • Other locations in the CKTZ FM radio listening area: Campbell River (539 plays),
      • Heriot Bay (122 plays),
      • Quathiaski Cove (94 plays),
      • Powell River (82 plays).
      • Comox (29 plays).
  • First half of 2023 (Jan to Jun): 11,769 plays (averaging 1,961 plays mo). The top 3 locations were:
  • (1) Mansons Landing (2,658),
  • (2) Columbus, Ohio (1,347 plays),
  • (3) Vancouver (769 plays).
  • Other locations in the CKTZ FM listening area:
    • Campbell River (152 plays),
    • Whaletown (35 plays),
    • Powell River (30 plays),
    • Heriot Bay (24 plays)

Top image: Feature image for German Forest by Bartosz Makara via Flickr (CC BY SA, 2.0 License)

Weekly indexes of articles since Oct 24, 2022

includes monthly statistics since Oct 2022

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