4,249 people made 9,033 pageviews (PV); 682 Returning Viewers; average Tideline session 5m 46s; Podcasts – 841 plays.
Cortes Currents is an archive, as well as a local news website. The 4,249 visitors this month accessed a total of 1,785 posts. There were another 116 PV of Terminal Upgrade Plan: BC Ferries Consults Cortes Residents, whose aggregate count is now 721. There were also 65 PV of Peter Wrinch moving on from being CEO of Hollyhock, which reached 501 PV.
The top 3 posts of the month were:
- Local News Links – 140 people made 219 PV
- How the election might have turned out, if it were held on Sunday October 13– 104 people made 136 PV
- The Most Exciting Conservation Story on Cortes Island– 92 people made 124 PV
This is the third month in a row where the average Cortes Currents post achieves first page Google search results (below 10) in Canada.
Cortes Currents – 9,033 PV
Sources of traffic – Independent Analytics
45 different streams of traffic were recorded, the top 5 were:
- 2,066 people made 3,299 PV views as a result of Google searches (averaging less than 1.5 PV & 3min 16s per session)
- 1,863 people came directly to the website and made 3,9226 PV (averaging +2 PV & 5m 53s per session)
- 341 people came via Cortes Tideline, made 1,088 PV (averaging about 3 PV each & 5min 46s per session) – This referrer’s numbers most closely match Greater Campbell River, below.
- 104 people used Bing to make 2508 PV (+2 PV each & 5m 39s per session)
- 75 people made 138PV through DuckDuckGo (2 PV & 6m 39s)
Top 5 Nations – Independent Analytics
Visitors came from 73 nations, the top 5 were:
- Canada – 3,035 people made 7,920 PV, averaging 5m 8s per session
- United States – 395 people made 805 PV, averaging 3m 12s
- United Kingdom – 82 people made 121 PV, averaging 23m 44s
- Russia – 37 people made 41 PV, averaging 3m 10s
- Germany – 31 people made 36 PV, averaging 1m 57s
Top 5 Canadian Areas – Google G4A
(The numbers from Google G4A are usually about 10% lower than Independent Analytics, but it recognizes our region better)
Visitors came from 608 cities and ‘not set’ areas. The top 5 Canadian locations were:
- CKTZ’s Listening Area – 829 people
- Campbell River – 481 people, averaging 4m 16s per session. This is the profile most closely matching that of the Cortes Tideline referrals. (Cortes and Quadra Island are in Greater Campbell River)
- Undesignated rural area (‘not set’), assumed to be within CKTZ’s listening area – 284 people, averaging 3m 8s per session.
- Powell River – 48 people, averaging 1m 48s
- Comox – 16 people, averaging 1m 53s
- Vancouver – 722 people, averaging 1m 46s per session
- Toronto – 108 people – av 54s
- Victoria – 95 people – av 2m 9s
Top 5 podcasts for October
Drawn from SoundCloud and Apple podcasts.
- (29 Plays) The 2024 Vital Signs Report for Cortes Island
- (25 Plays) The Next Chapter: Wild Things Seafood
- (25 Plays) Highlights from Green Candiate Nic Dedeluk’s visit to Cortes Island
- (22 Plays) Truth and Reconciliation celebration on Cortes Island
- (21 Plays) Nic for Borth Island, an interview with the Green Party candidate
SoundCloud – revised to 814 plays
Suspected bots – Subtracted cities known to be BOT centres – Boardman (55 plays), and Columbus (36 plays).
Top 3 countries
- USA – revised to from 368 (from 458).
- Canada – 273
- Germany – 53 plays
Top Canadian Locations
- Vancouver – 91 Plays
- CKTZ’s Listening Area – 84 Plays
- Mansons Landing – 33
- Campbell River – 43 (This is the second month in a row that Campbell River plays exceeded those in Mansons Landing)
- Powell River – 2
- Quathiaski Cove – 2
- Surge Narrows – 2
- Lund – 2
- Denman Island – 9 Plays
- Victoria – 11 Plays
- Toronoto – 12 Plays
Apple Podcasts – 27 Plays
The only highlight was 15 plays of the 2024 Vital Signs Report for Cortes Island, there were only single plays for other titles.
CKTZ 89.5 FM
Listeners on Cortes Island , Quadra, Campbell River and down the Salish Sea coastline as far as Powell River and Comox. Mon to Fri – 8 AM & (repeating) at noon & 5 PM; Saturday Round-up at 1 PM.