3,419 people made 8,223 pageviews (PV); 626 Returning Viewers; average ‘Tideline’ session 6m 24s; Podcasts – 1282 plays.

This is the fourth month in a row where the average Cortes Currents post achieved first page Google search results in Canada. A total of 1,863 posts were accessed. This includes another 35 views of Terminal Upgrade Plan: BC Ferries Consults Cortes Residents which now has an aggreagte count of 765.

The top 3 posts of the month were: 

1. 236 views of Brian Scott, Sherman Barker & Isabelle LaPlante: on the Cortes Experience (averaging 6m 25s per session)
2. 170 views of Proposed Conservation Area In The Mansons Bay Forest (averaging 1m 47s per session)
3. 161 views of Planned price increases; dismantling FAC’s – Changes Coming To BC Ferries (2m 28s per session) 

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: 

1. Local News Links – 140 people made 219 PV
2. How the election might have turned out, if it were held on Sunday October 13– 104 people made 136 PV
3. The Most Exciting Conservation Story on Cortes Island– 92 people made 124 PV

3,822 people made 9,361 pageviews (PV); 682 Returning Viewers; average Tideline session 8m 19s; Podcasts – 2,091 plays.

Viewers accessed a total of 1,733 posts; There were another 113 views on Terminal Upgrade Plan: BC Ferries Consults Cortes Residents (Apr 28, 2024), bringing its aggregate count to 705 PV and another 30 views of Marnie’s Books – Small Bookstore with big draw on Cortes Island (Sep 2, 2020), bringing its known aggregate count* to 1,042 PV. 

The top 5 posts of the month were: 

1. (187 PV) Sept 12 Zoning Bylaw Review Meeting in Mansons Hall (average session 5m 17s)
2. (182 PV) Nic Dedeluk: Green Party Candidate For North Island (2m 56s)
3. (175 Views) FOCI: Continuity & Change (7m 49s)
4. (161 Views) Open House at the Whaletown dock, Renovations Needed (7m 7s)
5. (149 Views) Rising Food and Housing Insecurity on Cortes Island (1m 59s)

4,828 people made 12,598 pageviews (PV); 906 repeat users; average Greater Campbell River PV was 6m 19s; Podcasts – 761 plays.

Viewers accessed 1,676 posts; This includes another 32 views of Max Thaysen’s 2020 post ‘BC Ferries Don’t Take Cash,’ whose aggregate count now exceeds 3,427 PV. (There is a 10 month gap between my records from 2020 and records preserved by the new Google G4A program, so I’m conservatively guesstimating the actual total may be closer to 3,600 PV.) There have been another 2 plays of the podcast The Awakeneers new single: December in the North, whose aggregate count is now 204 plays.

The top 3 posts of the month were: 

1. (742 Views) Demonstration At Access Point To Cortes Airstrip (average session 6m 21s)
2. (565 Views) A Message For Luxury Yachts Appears At Cortes Bay (2m 32s)
3. (341 Views this month, bringing the aggregate count to 391) Peter Wrinch Moves On From Being CEO Of Hollyhock (4m 20s)

4,287 people made 19,594 pageviews (PV), 163 daily & 922 weekly users, average Canadian PV 6:05; Podcasts – 1,154 plays.

Viewers accessed 1,868 posts and index pages; The aggregate count for Wrecked Boat on the Rocks Below My Property (av. session 3:14) reached 880 PV; The podcast Denise Wolda (Part 1 of 2): From Farmer’s daughter to Professional Musician has been played 137 times.  

The top 3 posts of the month were: 

• (459 Views) QXMC Squirrel Cove: The Next Phase  (average view lasted 2:50 min)
• (383 Views) Gorge Harbour Marina Renovations Completed (7:05 min)
• (313 Views) Changes coming to the Heart of Mansons Landing (3:58 min)