Monthly Stats

Monthly Stats for May 2024

4,449 people made 11,165 pageviews; 320 daily & 1,713 weekly users; average Canadian PV – 5:19; Podcasts – 4,620 plays

1,816 posts and index pages were viewed on Cortes Currents. The aggregate count for Terminal Upgrade Plan: BC Ferries Consults Cortes Residents (av. session 5m 33s) reached 368 views

Top 3 posts of the month, in terms of views:

  1.  (557 Views) SRD Asking Transport Canada About The Cortes Island Landing Strip (average view: 6m 6s)
  2. (439 views) Cortes Airstrip: the protest and Monday’s town hall meeting  (average view: 3m 43s)
  3. (439 views) Transport Canada Responds To Questions About Renovations Underway on Cortes Airstrip  (average view: 1m 45s)

Cortes Currents – 11,165 Pageviews

Sources of Traffic – from Independent Analytics

Viewers came through 44 different referrers, The top 3 being: 

  1. Google: 2,057 visitors made 3,488 pageviews (PV) averaging over 1.5 PV ea, lasting 4m 51s.
  2. Direct: 1,296 people made 2,793 PV – averaging more than 2 PV ea, lasting 5m 33s.
  3. Tideline: 677 visitors made 2,638 PV averaging just under 4 PV ea, lasting 7m 1s. 

The Top 4 Nations – from Independent Analytics

People from 76 nations visited Cortes Currents, the top 4 were:

  1. Canada – 3,370 people made 9,366 PV, averaging just under 3 PV ea, lasting 5m 19s.
  2. United States – 543 people made 992 PV, averaging less than 2 PV ea, averaging 7m 9s.
  3. United Kingdom: 93 people made 125 PV, averaging about 1.3 ea, lasting 1m 21s
  4. Germany: 57 people made 85 PV, averaging 1.5 PV ea, lasting 7m 57s.

The Top 4 Canadian Locations – from Google G4A

Visitors came from 649 cities and ‘not set’ (rural) areas, the top 4 Canadian areas were:

  1. CKTZ’s listening area – 1,047 people
    • Greater Campbell River (which includes Cortes & Quadra Islands) – 559 people, averaging 5m 42s per session
    • Powell River – 89, averaging 2m 28s per session
    • Comox – 23, averaging 2m 27s per session
    • Undesignated rural area on West Coast – 376, averaging 2m 43s per session
  2. Vancouver – 863 people, averaging 2m 22s per session
  3. Victoria – 144 people, averaging 2m 40s per session

SoundCloud – Revised to 4,542 Plays because of suspected bots (was 5,785).

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

Sources of Traffic

  • 5,409 human and bot plays came through third party rss feeds (312 were through SoundCloud embeds or apps)
    • 191 links go back to Cortes Currents
    • 26 Plays on the SoundCloud website
    • 15 go to Cortes Radio
    • other plays

Top Nations

  1. Canada – 3,607 Plays
  2. United States – 774 Plays (reduced from 2,017 because of suspected bot activity)
  3. Germany 32 Plays

Suspected bot sites

(Columbus and Boardman are both known robotic centres. SoundCloud does not supply info about the length of plays or bounce rate, but the visits these cities made to Cortes Currents fall within the MO of bots: Columbus – 1 entry in June, averaging 0s, with 100% bounce rate; Boardman – 3 entries in May averaging 2s. with 100% bounce rate)

  • Columbus, Ohio – 944 Plays
  • Boardman – 299 Plays

The top 3 Canadian sources were:

  1. CKTZ’s Listening Area – 3,430 Plays
    • Mansons Landing (which includes other parts of Cortes Island) –  3,378 plays;
    • Campbell River – 28 plays.
    • Whaletown – 14 plays
    • Heriot Bay – 7 Plays
    • Powell River – 3 plays
  2. Vancouver – 72 plays;
  3. Denman Island – 14 Plays

Apple podcasts – 78 plays

Top 3 podcasts were:

  1. (18 Plays) BC Ferries Consultation Apr 27th
  2. (13) Plays Cortes Fire Department Preparing For The Worst Case Scenario
  3. (9 Plays) Carrie Saxifrage’s Cimate Mitigation Presentation to the SRD Board

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.