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Monthly Stats

Monthly Stats for May 2023

4,107 people viewed 8,657 pages in May; 647 Returning Visitors; average Campbell River session 4m 41s; Podcasts – 1683 plays

Viewers accessed 1,879 posts and index pages. The aggregate count for What can Cortes Island do with its abandoned boats? (this month averaging 1m 29s per session) reached 435 views

The top 3 posts, in terms of views, were:

  1. (230 Views) Seafest returning to Squirrel Cove Saturday May 20 (1:17)
  2. (141 Views) Cortes Fire Department meeting with the SRD (1:13)
  3. (134 Views) Kate Maddigan, CCEDA’s new Economic Development Officer (2:21)

Cortes Currents – 8,657 PV

Sources of traffic

  • 2,567 people came through web searches, primarily Google
  • 627 people went directly to the website
  • 401 people were referred by a third party website, mostly Tideline
  • 286 people were referred by social media, primarily Facebook
  • 169 people were unassigned
  • According to Google’s now retired Universal Analytics program 345 of 667 returning visitors came 26 or more times; 77 came more than 200 times. 

The top 4 Nations

Viewers came from 59 countries, the top 4 being:

  1. Canada – 4,347 people, averaging 2m 18s
  2. United States – 433 people, averaging 52s
  3. United Kingdom – 54 people, averaging 1m 27s
  4. Germany – 35 people, averaging 31s
  5. Sweden – 30 people, averaging 4s, engagement rate 20% per visit

Top 4 Canadian Locations:

  1. CKTZ’s Listening Area – 943 people
    • Campbell River – 535 people; averaging 4m 41s
    • Undesignated (not set) area – 307 people averaging 2m 1s
    • Powell River – 92; averaging 1m 25s
    • Comox – 9 people, averaging 3m 10s
  2. Vancouver – 770, averaging 1m 37s per session
  3. Toronto – 138 people, averaging 2m
  4. Victoria – 117 people, averaging 1m 25s

SoundCloud – Revised total 1,598 plays

Top 3 podcasts, in terms of plays

  1. (800 Plays) We’ve been drinking a lot more alcohol during COVID, study finds – Cortes Currents
  2. (454 Plays) the Amazing Neuroplastic Brain – Folk U
  3. (25 Plays) Cortes Fire Department meeting with the SRD

Sources of Traffic

  • 1,213 plays through SoundCloud apps and embeds; 582 through third party rss feeds. Bots reputedly use rss feeds.
  • 195 plays on Cortes Currents
  • 101 plays on the SoundCloud website
  • 19 plays on Cortes Radio
  • Other sources

Top 3 Nations:

  1. Canada – 490 Plays
  2. Pakistan – 268 plays
  3. United States – Revised to 75 from 300 plays because of suspected bots (see below)

Suspected bots

  1. Columbus, Ohio – 121 plays – a known bot centre. Checking this city against the corresponding entry on Cortes Currents, I found 5 visits, averaging 18 sec. (These are the first suspected bot entries I’ve seen that average more than 5 secs on Cortes Currents. Is there a human visit among them?)
  2. Ashburn, Virginia – 104 plays. Another known bot centre. Checking Cortes Currents I found 23 visits averaging 5s.

Islamic Cities

  1. Lahore, Pakistan – 64 Plays
  2. Karachi, Pakistan – 59 Plays
  3. Muscat, Oman – 41 Plays
  4. Dubai, UAE – 41 Plays
  5. Abu Dhabi, UAE – 24 Plays
  6. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – 24 Plays
  7. Peshawar, Pakistan – 23 Plays
  8. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – 22 Plays
  9. Cairo, Egypt – 16 Plays
  10. Dammam, Saudi Arabia – 14 Plays
  11. Kuwait City, Kuwait – 12 Plays
  12. Amman, Jordan – 10 Plays
  13. Islamabad, Pakistan – 10 Plays
  14. Malé, Maldives – 10 Plays
  15. Sharjah, UAE – 10 Plays
  16. Khartoum, Sudan – 8 Plays
  17. Rawalpindi, Pakistan – 8 Plays
  18. Ta’if, Saudi Arabia – 8 Plays
  19. Hyderabad, Pakistan – 7 Plays
  20. Medina, Saudi Arabia – 7 Plays
  21. Manama, Bahrain – 7 Plays
  22. Quetta, Pakistan – 6 Plays
  23. Multan, Pakistan – 6 Plays
  24. Faisalabad, Pakistan – 4 Plays
  1. Columbus, Ohio – 121 plays
  2. Ashburn, Virginia – 104 plays
  3. Lahore, Pakistan – 64 plays
  4. Karachi, Pakistan – 59 plays

Top 3 Canadian Locations

  1. Vancouver – 196 plays
  2. CKTZ’s Listening Area – 152 plays
    • Mansons Landing – 131;
    • Campbell River – 15;
    • Heriot Bay – 6
  3. Toronto – 14 plays
  4. Victoria – 14

Apple Podcasts – 39 plays

Two stand out:

  1. (15 Views) Seafest 2023 at Squirrel Cove
  2. (9 Views) Mark Lombard Interview

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.