Great October, slow start in November

Colleagues,

The final October online traffic numbers were excellent with 934,371 unique visitors and 4,430,000 page views. This puts us up 46 percent year over year.

Top 10 stories for the month were:

Wolffish in danger
Frisky moose picks unlikely partner
Photo zoom of frisky moose picks unlikely partner
Portsmouth Police Log
Cocaine traffickers misspelled alias, hid drugs in body cavity
Woman fined for delivering litter to homeless shelter
Police: Woman at store opened wine, drank, fled
Moose ‘loves’ another Ford
Opinion: Letters to the editor
Police: Bust nets 4 pounds of pot, customer list

Top 10 galleries for the month were:

USS New Hampshire arrives
Sarah Palin in Dover
Photos of the Week Oct. 20-26
USS New Hampshire Sub
Plane Crashes into Oce3an
Celeb Watch 40
USS New Hampshire Tour
Darklore Manor
Shades of Autumn
Celeb Watch 42

November is off to a slow start. As of today we are averaging just over 26,000 uniques per day compared to 30,000 in October. I urge you to step up efforts sending any and all interesting items to the web. Stories are good but so are briefs about things like parking bans, parade sign ups and plans for roadwork that will tie up traffic.

Yesterday was typical of our current funk with 26,659 uniques and 140,450 page views.

Top stories were:

1. Article: Maine man killed after apparently lying in road 2,369


2. Article: Local eatery closes its doors 2,360



3. Article: Portsmouth police log 1,655



4. Article: New DWI mobile unit deployed; 480 stopped, 8 arrested 1,573



5. Article: 2 Maine men missing after boat sinks in pond 1,380



6. Article: Seacoast Half Marathon raises $50K for homeless shelter 1,299



7. Article: N.H. brewery to remain open 1,094



8. Article: Police: driver fled DWI checkpoint, almost hit officer, left ID behind 1,018



9. Article: Entertain ‘Twilight’ debate: Team Edward vs. Team Jacob 608



10. Article: Business Hungry? Portsmouth Restaurant Week starts today 544


Top photo galleries were:
1. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Nov 3-9 2,435



2. Flash Gallery: Seacoast Half Marathon 2008 2,133



3. Flash Gallery: PHS Volleyball Div II Semifinals 1,128



4. Flash Gallery: PHS Volleyball - State Champs 997



5. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Oct 27-Nov 2 893



6. Flash Gallery: Exeter vs. BG Football 369



7. Flash Gallery: New England Cross Country 342



8. Flash Gallery: Portsmouth's Halloween 306



9. Flash Gallery: Seacoast Votes 2008 286



10. Flash Gallery: Fall photos 261