During 2013 Artifacting saw 1,530,685 absolute unique visitors to the site. While this number is larger than last year is doesn’t show the growth seen in earlier years. Below is a graph of my total number of absolute unique readers throughout 2013.
The spike on July 7th came from the “Today I learned” Sub-Reddit discovering my post about Venezuela’s Never Ending Lightning Storm.
Below are the top ten most visited posts published on Artifacting in 2013.
Google Street View At Night
Every Human Being
2013 SXSW Music Torrent & Radio
Denver Has The 3rd Best Looking Flag In The Nation.
Climbing The Mercury City Tower
Museum Of Endangered Sounds
Rare Color Film Of The Three Stooges
Gravity Is A Mistake
United States Of Electoral Votes
Bruce Springsteen <–> Dolly Parton
Referring sites sent 165,029 visits from 1,469 different sources during 2013. Less than last year.
The top ten referring sites to Artifacting (with search engines removed) during 2013 were:
Stumbleupon
Yahoo Answers
Reddit
Facebook
Squidoo
WikiHow
Just Free Stuff
Metafilter
Disneyland Fanclub
Pintrest
This year Pinterest, Wikihow, Just Free Stuff, and the now defunct Disneyland Fanclub were all newcomers to the list over the past year.
General stats for Artifacting are as follows:
| Year | # Of Posts | Avg. Length Of Posts | Total Length Of All Posts | Comments (Mine) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 30 | 4,889 | 146,682 | 115 (2) |
| 2012 | 88 | 2,093 | 184,142 | 273 (7) |
| 2011 | 96 | 3,369 | 323,412 | 304 (13) |
| 2010 | 172 | 1,900 | 326,775 | 326 (20) |
| 2009 | 105 | 1,828 | 191,907 | 285 (19) |
| 2008 | 135 | 956 | 129,117 | 363 (34) |
| 2007 | 248 | 835 | 207,145 | 568 (124) |
| 2006 | 221 | 927 | 204,804 | 536 (122) |
| 2005 | 39 | 1,392 | 54,292 | 295 (0) |
| 2004 | 117 | 1,673 | 195,757 | 955 (0) |
| 2003 | 144 | 1,473 | 212,112 | 701 (0) |
If you’re interested I also have the similar year-end stat posts for 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008.
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