Traffic report for Feb. 11

UNIQUES: 25,195, PAGE VIEWS 143,133

1. Article: Ordinance forces closure of porn shop and video booths 1,837
2. Article: Confusion turns Kittery voters away 1,164
3. Article: Landlord: Clinton staff stiffed me on rent 1,113
4. Article: Police Log 1,040
5. Article: Opinion Farewell to two brave young lives lost too soon 1,035
6. Article: Obama takes Maine 624
7. Article: Entertain Film review: ‘Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins’ 590
8. Article: Thomas K. Christo 548
9. Article: Seafood store fined for lacking license 537
10. Article: Congressman dies; daughter is N.H. Democratic activist 499


1. Flash Gallery: Division II Swimming and Diving 5,968
2. Flash Gallery: Division I Swimming and Diving 1,488
3. Flash Gallery: Karaoke Idol Auditions 1,254
4. Flash Gallery: Southern Maine Caucus 2008 1,038
5. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Feb4-Feb10 685
6. Flash Gallery: Celeb Watch 17 377
7. Flash Gallery: Winter photos 337
8. Flash Gallery: 9th Annual Penguin Plunge 248
9. Flash Gallery: Danish Health Club 224
10. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Jan.28-Feb3 213

New traffic record set

Friday, Feb. 8, set a new record for traffic at seacoastonline. Thanks to the Drudge Report picking up our story on Hillary Clinton's campaign stiffing a local landlord we had 138,291 uniques and 258,175 page views.

To put this in perspective, for the New Hampshire Primary, Jan. 8, we had 85,000 uniques.

Drudge left the story on his site on Saturday and we had our best Saturday ever with 44,617 unique visitors.

Articles:
1. Article: Landlord: Clinton staff stiffed me on rent 122,256
2. Article: School superintendent's contract probed after he cashes in 1,804
3. Article: Police Log 1,141
4. Article: Police searching for cross-dressing motorist who startled drivers 958
5. Article: Former Salvation Army bell ringer can't find work or collect benefits 915

Photo galleries
1. Flash Gallery: Celeb Watch 17 3,634
2. Flash Gallery: WHS Wrestling Senior Night 1,400
3. Article: Photo Zoom: Landlord: Clinton staff stiffed me on rent 729
4. Flash Gallery: Night of 1,000 Points for Petzy 680
5. Flash Gallery: Clinton at Winnacunnet H.S. 543

Referring domains (how people came to our site):

1. drudgereport.com 100,769
2. fark.com 9,598
3. google.com 9,129
4. adicio.com 7,681
5. legacy.com 2,651
6. seacoastconnects.com 2,346
7. yahoo.com 2,076
8. seacoastcareers.com 1,482
9. careercast.com 1,192
10. stumbleupon.com 1,125

Saturday, Feb. 9

Uniques 44,617, Page views 122,062

1. Article: Landlord: Clinton staff stiffed me on rent 29,024
2. Article: Clinton campaign doesn't pay, others say 2,294
3. Article: Flags, war medal trashed by business, man says 1,223
4. Article: Clinton doesn't pay, others say 878
5. Article: Police Log 727
6. Article: Brothel boss: The secret files 612
7. Article: Hungry owls take beating on roads 600
8. Article: Sailor's widow: 'I did a bad thing' 570
9. Article: Sports Radja's hat trick lifts UNH past Maine 509
10. Article: Police say toll evader is nabbed 445

1. Flash Gallery: Celeb Watch 17 2,531
2. Flash Gallery: Epping/Sanborn Boys Basketball 2,086
3. Flash Gallery: Clinton at Winnacunnet H.S. 642
4. Flash Gallery: Clintons in Portsmouth 478
5. Flash Gallery: 9th Annual Penguin Plunge 411

Sunday, Feb. 10

1. Article: 'He is the heart of me' 2,244
2. Article: Opinion Spotlight's on Maine Democrats 1,881
3. Article: Landlord: Clinton staff stiffed me on rent 1,409
4. Article: Evidence against Dodds' story piles up 718
5. Article: Opinion Superdelegate conundrum 685

1. Flash Gallery: Division II Swimming and Diving 5,926
2. Flash Gallery: Karaoke Idol Auditions 2,014
3. Flash Gallery: Creek Man reaches Shoals 1,004
4. Flash Gallery: Epping/Sanborn Boys Basketball 482
5. Flash Gallery: Pamela Smart Murder Trial 1991 354

Colleagues,

Yesterday was a bit sluggish with 24,921 uniques and 129,249 page views. Today, Karen Dandurant's story on the Clinton campaign stiffing a local landlord has been picked up by just about every political site in the country including the DrudgeReport. We already have more than 70,000 uniques and the day is still young. At this pace we will beat our traffic from the NH Primary Day.

1. Article: Superintendent tops school salaries at $162K 1,140
2. Article: Police Log 1,032
3. Article: Judge in Dodds trial issues gag order 1,013
4. Article: Snowmobile accident claims life of 22-year-old 1,000
5. Article: Business Warren's Lobster House has loyal following 906
6. Article: Opinion Dining Out: Ruby Tuesday 880
7. Article: Teen who hit boy on scooter pleads guilty 725
8. Article: City salaries: from $25.00 to $187K 686
9. Article: AP Hosted 615
10. Article: Portsmouth housing market doing well 599


1. Flash Gallery: Night of 1,000 Points for Petzy 2,775
2. Flash Gallery: 9th Annual Penguin Plunge 1,025
3. Flash Gallery: Epping/Newmarket Girls B-Ball 409
4. Flash Gallery: Class L Track Championship 395
5. Flash Gallery: Danish Health Club 373
6. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Jan.28-Feb3 267
7. Flash Gallery: Class I-M-S Track Championship 190
8. Flash Gallery: Pamela Smart Murder Trial 1991 173
9. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Jan.21-27 160
10. Flash Gallery: Fall photos 143

Web traffic Feb. 6

Unique visitors 25,331 and page views 144,711.

Well, there's nothing like brothel secrets to get people reading. Great job by Beth to stay on top of the this story and pounce on the records once they were unsealed. A big scoop translated into big traffic.

Adam Leech did a real nice job on the story about the Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and then greatly increased his audience by submitting the story to icasualties.com, a website that lists those killed in combat. How did he find this site? He Googled Iraq and Death and this was the first thing that came up. Brilliant.

Lighthouse Award Winner (it's like the newsroom Oscars, you keep the title forever) Ken Stejbach brought us another 4,000 page views with his photo gallery "Night of 1,000 points for Petzy."

Articles:
1. Article: Brothel boss: The secret files 3,157 8.1%
2. Article: Durham mourns Naval officer 1,846 4.7%
3. Article: Police Log 999 2.6%
4. Article: Sports UNH celebrates life of Holly Young 971 2.5%
5. Article: Winter Storm Warning for Coastal Rockingham County 887 2.3%
6. Article: Business Seacoast moms find employment resource 848 2.2%
7. Article: Superintendent tops school pay list at $162K 828 2.1%
8. Article: City salaries: from $25.00 to $187K 589 1.5%
9. Article: Prosecutors question Dodds' whereabouts 568 1.5%
10. Article: Durham mourns Navy SEAL killed in Iraq 522 1.3%


1. Flash Gallery: Night of 1,000 Points for Petzy 4,005 27.7%
2. Flash Gallery: Danish Health Club 2,289 15.9%
3. Flash Gallery: 9th Annual Penguin Plunge 1,628 11.3%
4. Flash Gallery: Class L Track Championship 626 4.3%
5. Flash Gallery: Epping/Newmarket Girls B-Ball 611 4.2%
6. Flash Gallery: Class I-M-S Track Championship 601 4.2%
7. Flash Gallery: Winnacunnet/Exeter Girls B-Ball 355 2.5%
8. Flash Gallery: Creek Man reaches Shoals 338 2.3%
9. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Jan.28-Feb3 329 2.3% 1
0. Flash Gallery: Super Bowl Patriots vs Giants 268 1.9%

web traffic Feb. 5

Seacoastonline traffic Feb. 5, 2008

An average day with 25,154 uniques, 148,362 page views.

Kudos to Sue Morse for her Sailor's widow story that garnered more than 3,000 page views.

As many of you know we are now using youtube as our video platform. Yesterday we posted videos related to the Danish Health Club brothel. Unfortunately youtube links related videos so you can only imagine what linked to our brothel-bust videos. We got the "chicken ranch" and other videos down quickly and Deb and Andrew are working on a solution. Youtube mavens please contact them if you know how to stop this from happening. There is a button you can click that is supposed to block the attachment of related videos but it doesn't seem to be working.

More details at www.seacoastonlinenews.blogspot.com

Articles:
1. Article: Sailor's widow: 'I did a bad thing' 3,298

2. Article: Drug suspect: 'Cops said I had killed a police officer' 1,480

3. Article: Cutts Mansion tunnels no myth, say sisters raised there 1,379

4. Article: Man guilty in knifepoint sex assault 1,304

5. Article: Kittery brothel records unsealed; details revealed 1,203

6. Article: Police Log 1,181

7. Article: City salaries: from $25.00 to $187K 774

8. Article: Dodds' river trek earns credibility 713

9. Article: U.S. DOT ready to pull Boston-Maine’s license to fly 605

10. Article: Business Professor: Lent can help Catholics make financialadjustments 593

Photo galleries

1. Flash Gallery: 9th Annual Penguin Plunge 3,315

2. Flash Gallery: PHS Girls Basketball vs Kennett 1,656

3. Flash Gallery: Class I-M-S Track Championship 1,352

4. Flash Gallery: Danish Health Club 1,330

5. Flash Gallery: Class L Track Championship 1,330

6. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Jan.28-Feb3 1,155

7. Flash Gallery: Winnacunnet/Exeter Girls B-Ball 935

8. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Jan.21-27 299

9. Flash Gallery: Super Bowl Patriots vs Giants 258

10. Flash Gallery: Winter photos 236

Seacoastonline traffic report Feb. 4

Despite a slow news day our traffic was strong with 25,821 unique visitors and 150,443 page views, driven largely by our photo galleries.

Cheryl Senter's Penguin Plunge gallery got more than 10,000 page views and Ken Stejbach's galleries contributed another 11,000.

Top 10 Articles:

1. Article: Penguins take plunge 1,564
2. Article: Police Log 1,349
3. Article: Plan for Portwalk project under way 923
4. Article: Giant upset ends perfect run 798
5. Article: Woman charged with trying to steal from police cruiser 792
6. Article: A Super letdown for heartbroken Patriot fans 782
7. Article: Welcome to 236diner 691
8. Article: Property owners raise tax question, demand refunds 674
9. Article: Investigator: Dodds' story, evidence at odds 673
10. Article: Sex offender to serve up to 12 years for restraining,assaulting teen 642

Top 10 Photo Galleries

1. Flash Gallery: 9th Annual Penguin Plunge 10,815
2. Flash Gallery: Class L Track Championship 5,796
3. Flash Gallery: Class I-M-S Track Championship 5,409
4. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Jan.28-Feb3 2,558
5. Flash Gallery: Super Bowl Patriots vs Giants 1,386
6. Article: Photo Zoom: Penguins take plunge 453
7. Flash Gallery: Winnacunnet/Exeter Girls B-Ball 447
8. Flash Gallery: Pamela Smart Murder Trial 1991 252
9. Flash Gallery: Celeb Watch 16 238
10. Flash Gallery: Miss Hampton Beach Pageant 2007 216

Web traffic report Feb. 1 & 2

Friday, Feb. 1

Major thanks and congratulations to Beth for her report on top salaries in Portsmouth. As you can see this story got more than 3,400 hits on Friday and another 3,000-plus on Saturday. Thanks also to Andrew and Claudette who scanned and posted the full report in pdf form for the web. This report was downloaded more than 1,000 times.

This was an example of good reporting and execution that can be duplicated by all of our reporters. I know Adam Leech is doing something similar for Portsmouth's schools and I STRONGLY encourage all our town reporters to get these numbers for their towns and schools, write reports and work with Andrew to get the PDFs online. Please let me know if you have any questions about this.

More praise goes to Ken Stejbach whose photo galleries, singlehandedly, earned us more than 7,000 page views on Friday and 9,300 on Saturday. This tells us that all photographers at sporting events should create galleries. Please see me if you have questions about this.



1. Article: City salaries: from $25.00 to $187K 3,423
2. Article: Dodds trial: Secret tunnel a 'stupid myth' 1,923
3. Article: Stratham teen says Idol judges 'mean' and 'rude' 1,884
4. Article: Maine forecast pleasant for Paul 1,874
5. Article: Stage Neck Inn fires ruled arson 1,317
6. Article: Business Local teens start sporty clothing line 1,177
7. Article: Police Log 920
8. Article: House painter arrested after fight breaks out over loud radio 846
9. Article: Dodds' defense team questions credibility 594
10. Article: Recent Stage Neck Inn fires ruled arson 483

1. Flash Gallery: Exeter/Memorial Boys Basketball 7,158
2. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Jan.21-27 3,773
3. Flash Gallery: Celeb Watch 16 1,058
4. Flash Gallery: Winter photos 320
5. Flash Gallery: Pamela Smart Murder Trial 1991 287
6. Flash Gallery: Newmarket Stars Special Olympics 277
7. Flash Gallery: Pizza Bowl Sunday 276
8. Flash Gallery: UNH Wrestling 222
9. Article: Photo Zoom: Stratham teen says Idol judges 'mean' and 'rude' 215
10. Flash Gallery: Sen Barack Obama at Exeter HS 179


Saturday, Feb. 2
1. Article: Port City salaries top off at $187,000 1,921
2. Article: City salaries: from $25.00 to $187K 1,163
3. Article: Maine forecast pleasant for Paul 871
4. Article: Couple sues after reception disrupted by drunk party crashers 761
5. Article: Police Log 7496. Article: Doctor: Dodds' story is suspicious 601
7. Article: Stratham teen says Idol judges 'mean' and 'rude' 585
8. Article: Police: Painter, tenant fight over radio volume 477
9. Article: Independent voters could tip Maine caucus results 471
10. Article: Super Debate: What's your prediction for the Super Bowl? 459

1. Flash Gallery: Exeter/Memorial Boys Basketball 4,817
2. Flash Gallery: Winnacunnet/Exeter Girls B-Ball 4,496
3. Flash Gallery: Celeb Watch 16 715
4. Flash Gallery: Photos of the Week Jan.21-27 434
5. Flash Gallery: Pizza Bowl Sunday 345
6. Flash Gallery: CFA Dover Cat Show 2008 320
7. Flash Gallery: Exeter/Nashua North Hockey 267
8. Flash Gallery: Miss Hampton Beach Pageant 2007 206
9. Flash Gallery: Winter photos 180
10. Flash Gallery: Creek Man reaches Shoals 170