Monthly Stats

Monthly Stats for April 2023

4,181 visitors made 8,409 pageviews (PV); 594 Returning visitors; average Campbell River session 5:51; Podcasts – 3,648 plays

Viewers accessed 1,905 posts and index pages. The aggregate count for B.C. islanders bid adieu to their Queen who reigned for nearly 60 years (National Observer) reached 591 views.

This week’s top three articles, in terms of views, were:

  1. (163 Plays) Klahoose Wilderness Resort Chosen As One Of The World’s Top New Hotels (1:25 )
  2. (154 Plays) Where Are Germany’s Bears, Wolves And Eagles? (0:44)
  3. (143 Plays) Seafest returning to Squirrel Cove Saturday May 20 (2:00)

Cortes Currents – 8,409 PV

Sources of Traffic

  • 2,485 people came through searches on the web, primarily Google
  • 744 people came directly to the website
  • 513 people were referred by third party sites, primarily Tideline
    • 247 came through social media
  • According to Googles’ now retired Universal Analytics program, 621 returning visitors, 332 of which came more than 26 times and 95 more than 200 times.

Top 5 Nations

  1. Canada – 3,206 people, averaging 2m 23s
  2. United States – 573 people, av 55s
  3. United Kingdon – 66 people, av 53s
  4. Ireland – 57 people, av 18s
  5. Germany – 54 people, av 1m 5s

Top Canadian Locations

  1. CKTZ’s Listening Area – 876 people
    • Greater Campbell River (includes Cortes & Quadra) – 479 people, av 5m 51s per session
    • Undesignated (not set) rural area – 292 people, av 1m 46s
    • Powell River – 93 people, av 2m 4s;
    • Comox – 12 people, av 3m 1s
  2. Vancouver – 642 people, av 1m 45s
  3. Victoria – 117 people, av 1m 52s
  4. Toronto – 111 people, av 31s

SoundCloud – Revised to 3,455 from 4,298 Plays because of suspected robotic plays

Suspected robotoc sites

Ashburn, VIrginia, and Columbus Ohio are both known robotic areas. ‘Visitors’ from these cities made 471 and 389 plays, respectively. As SoundCloud does not provide the necessary information, I obtained a visitor profile from Cortes Currents. During April

  • 35 Visitors from Ashburn who stayed an average of 5 seconds.
  • 8 visitors from Columbus stayed an average of 15 seconds.

The top 3 podcasts, in terms of plays, were:

  1. (437 Plays) We’ve been drinking a lot more alcohol during COVID, study finds – Cortes Currents
  2. (50 Plays) the Amazing Neuroplastic Brain – Folk U
  3. (37 Plays) Klahoose Wilderness Resort Chosen As One Of The World’s Top New Hotels

The top 3 Nations were:

  1. Canada – 2,478 plays
  2. United States – revised to 241 from 1,051 plays because of suspected bot activity.
  3. Pakistan – 175 plays

Top 4 International Locations:

  1. Ashburn, Virginia – 471 plays
  2. Columbus, Ohio – 389 plays
  3. Lahore, Pakistan – 34 plays
  4. Karachi, Pakistan – 31 plays

Top 3 Canadian Locations

  1. CKTZ’s Listening Area – 2,178
    • Mansons Landing – 2,141;
    • Campbell River – 17;
    • Powell River – 13;
    • Whaletown – 7
  2. Vancouver – 167
  3. Victoria -15

Apple Podcasts – 193 Plays

CKTZ 89.5 FM

Listeners on Cortes Island , Quadra, Campbell River and down the Salish Sea coastline to Powell River and Comox. 8 AM & (repeating) 3 PM, Mon to Fri; Saturday Round-up at 1 PM.