43,049 people made 107,177 pageviews (PV) on Cortes Currents during 2024; 6,365 were returning users; the average visit in Greater Campbell River was 6min 32 sec; 21,244 plays
The Top 6 posts on Cortes Currents were:
- 4,004 people scanned the homepage 10,554 times, averaging 49 seconds.
- Where are Germany’s Bears Wolves and Eagles – 1,083 people made 1,208 PV (a 2016 story whose aggregate count is now 61,123 PV)
- Wrecked Boat on the Rocks Below my Property – 592 people made 917 PV
- Terminal Upgrade Plan: BC Ferries Consults Cortes Residents – 585 people made 786 PV
- QXMC Squirrel Cove: The Next Phase – 462 people made 683 PV
- Demonstration at Access Point to Cortes Airstrip – 482 people made 589 PV
The traffic from those 43,049 people:
- 25,255 came through searches on the web, the vast majority through Google
- 11,379 people came directly to the website
- 6,043 people were referred by thrid party websites, primarily Tideline
- 305 came through Social Media
- 8 are unassigned
Top 6 nations
- 33,454 came from Canada – their average session was 3m 05s
- 5,762 came from the United States – average session 1m 09s
- 691 came from the UK – average session – 1m 04s
- 513 came from Germany – average session 47s
- 240 came from China – average session – 10s
- 214 came from Australia – average session 1m 33s
Top 5 Areas
- CKTZ’s listening Area
- Campbell River (Presumbaly Greater Campbell River, which includes Cortes and Quadra Islands) – 4,583 people, average session 6m 32s
- ‘Unassigned’ (ie rural area) – 3,628 people, average session 3m 59s
- Powell Rver – 822 people, average session 2m 14s
- Comox – 176 people average 3m 20s
- Vancouver – 8,813 people, average session 2m 19s
- Toronto – 1,331 people, 1m 0s
- Victoria – 1,267 people, average sassion 2m 38s
- Nanaimo – 794 people, average session 2m 09s
SoundCloud
Visitors made 24,183 plays on SoundCloud (24,183 minus 1,692 visits from Boardman. 1,528 from Columbus and 507 from Etobicoke – cities known for their bot activity)
The top 3 podcasts on SoundCloud were:
- Cortes Currents – Correcting Misinformation about the SRD Housing Service – 248 plays (a 2023 podcast whose aggregate count is now 286)
- Folk U – Intergenerational Perspectives on Climate – 124 plays
- Folk U – Witch Pop performs in the village Commons – 116 plays
The top five Canadian areas were
- CKTZ listening area – at least 6,015 plays
- Mansons Landing – 5,362 plays
- Campbell River – 361 plays
- Whaletown – 115 plays
- Heriot Bay – 70 plays
- Powell River – 62 plays
- Quathiaski Cove – 45 plays
- communities with less than 6 plays were not reported
- Denman Isand – 1,370 plays
- Vancouver 1,095 plays
- Victoria – 165 plays
- Toronto – 106 plays
Apple Podcasts – 789 plays
Cortes Currents published monthly stats form October 2022 until November 2024, but has ceased because of amount of work involved and the fact my objectives were achieved. –