Monthly page views since May '07 when we moved to wordpress.com. Stats calculated by wordpress.
The global youth movement came to a bit of a peak this month, and IGHIH not only reflected it, we wrote it as it was happening. Just take a look at our monthly traffic over the past 3 years. December was the biggest month by far, topping 100,000 views. An epic youth climate sit-in at the Bella Center in Copenhagen (live-blogged by Whit Jones), but it was by no means the only amazing instance of activists telling the story in their own words, and the world listening.
For commentary on the decade and the 5 year history of this site, other people will need to do step in, since I’ve only been involved here for 2 years. But you’re in luck! In January, over a dozen veteran youth climate activists who’ve been involved here for longer than me will post as part of the “Climate Generation” series – stay tuned for updates.
Also in January, there will be a bit of an overhaul process. We’ll start with a survey on how the site works for readers, writers and partner organizations. That feedback will go into a proposal to make changes to how this whole thing works, which should start to be implemented by the end of the month. We’ll be revamping the ‘events and opportunities’ page to make it easier to post and also overhauling the list of contributors and authors. Lastly, the editorial board needs some fresh blood, and recruitment will start at the end of the month. Like to promote the voices of the youth climate movement? Lets talk.
Now to really geek out, here are this month’s most viewed posts, referring sites, web searches and outgoing links. Hold your breath, hold it, hold it, here it is….
Most viewed posts which were posted in the past 30 days:
LIVE BLOG: Youth activists sit-in, refus 6,861
Corruption: Sarkozy, Obama Pressure Ethi 5,522
Crackdown in Copenhagen 2,378
Live Blog: Sit-In at the US State Depart 1,610
US Youth Crash Climate Denier Live Webca 1,501
Top referrers in the past 30 days (where people clicked a link to the blog):
facebook.com 3632
twitter.com 1,673
addisvoice.com (Linking to Corruption: Sarkozy, Obama Pressure Ethi) 686
huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/15/sarkozy… (Huffpo linked straight to Corruption: Sarkozy, Obama Pressure Ethi) 559
dirty.ru (Russian site linking to Crackdown in Copenhagen) 378
Top search terms (what people typed into a search engine to find us):
hummer 7,063
australia 1,832
japan 1,076
hummer h1 961
ethiopia 303
And, where people clicked to from our blog:
focusthenation.org 421
elysee.fr/documents/index.php?lang=fr… 415
powershift09.org/live 303
sweetmarias.com/map.australia.jpg 285
latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2… 211
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