A weekly report tracking the top stories and other associated analytic
points for Inforum.com. This report covers the week of 10.12.12 – 10.19.12.

Inforum.com Analytics Report
10.12.12 - 10.19.12 | @ ~ 08:30am

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Inforum.com
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Inforum.com Pageviews [Google Analytics]

Total for date range: 2520068

Oct 12, 2012         | Visitors: 368814
Oct 13, 2012         | Visitors: 260232
Oct 14, 2012         | Visitors: 271469
Oct 15, 2012         | Visitors: 406269
Oct 16, 2012         | Visitors: 396586
Oct 17, 2012         | Visitors: 444342
Oct 18, 2012         | Visitors: 341552


Inforum.com Absolute Unique Visitors [Google Analytics]

Total for date range: 216288

Oct 12, 2012         | Visitors: 61679
Oct 13, 2012         | Visitors: 46642
Oct 14, 2012         | Visitors: 46891
Oct 15, 2012         | Visitors: 63751
Oct 16, 2012         | Visitors: 61841
Oct 17, 2012         | Visitors: 66108
Oct 18, 2012         | Visitors: 63671


Top Days [based on article views only | internal metric]

Oct 12, 2012         | Views: 077564  |  Articles - 581
Oct 13, 2012         | Views: 054188  |  Articles - 501
Oct 14, 2012         | Views: 056480  |  Articles - 578
Oct 15, 2012         | Views: 089206  |  Articles - 683
Oct 16, 2012         | Views: 090991  |  Articles - 638
Oct 17, 2012         | Views: 105303  |  Articles - 654
Oct 18, 2012         | Views: 094098  |  Articles - 642


Top 5 Stories [based on article views | internal metric]

Ulen man killed in crash north of Glyndon was recently
retired 'workaholic'
By: Patrick Springer and Erik Burgess
Viewed: 27306
Emailed: 11

Leia Bohl shares what it's like to be the coach's wife
By: Anna G. Larson
Viewed: 11674
Emailed: 10

Oh deer: Local radio show call approaches 2 million YouTube views
By: Forum staff report
Viewed: 11178
Emailed: 99

Investigators trying to figure out why Fairmount freshman shot
himself; student expected to recover
By: Patrick Springer
Viewed: 8860
Emailed: 03

Authorities identify man killed in Casselton train accident
By: Forum staff report
Viewed: 8768
Emailed: 03


Worst Of The Week - Stories with ZERO views [BETA | internal metric]

Scouts Honors: Zachary Miller
posted: October 14, 2012

Mildred Mertens
posted: October 14, 2012

Beef Talk: To seek knowledge is good
posted: October 11, 2012

More than 100,000 Minnesotans request absentee ballots
posted: October 12, 2012

Legals 10-15-12
posted: October 15, 2012

Transcendentalists topic of talk
posted: October 12, 2012

NDSU releases beef research findings
posted: October 17, 2012

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Brightcove Video
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Total weekly views: 51177
Average per day: 6397

Total viewed minutes: 165265
Average per 20658


Top 5 Videos [based on views | Brightcove analytics]

Video Shows Police Rescue at Fiery Car Crash
Views: 7348

The Forum DowntownCam
Views: 5512

WDAY Towercam South
Views: 3152

WDAY Studio Towercam
Views: 3044

Minnesota Fatal Crash
Views: 2393

Top 5 Videos [based on minutes viewed | Brightcove analytics]

The Forum DowntownCam
Minutes Viewed: 32496

Video Shows Police Rescue at Fiery Car Crash
Views: 17403

WDAY Towercam South
Minutes Viewed: 17114

WDAY Studio Towercam
Minutes Viewed: 16995

Bison Video Blog: NDSU vs. USD preview
Minutes Viewed: 6520

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Areavoices.com
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Areavoices.com Pageviews [Google Analytics]

Total for date range: 503553

Oct 12, 2012         | Visitors: 76000
Oct 13, 2012         | Visitors: 57870
Oct 14, 2012         | Visitors: 60988
Oct 15, 2012         | Visitors: 82672
Oct 16, 2012         | Visitors: 70169
Oct 17, 2012         | Visitors: 66649
Oct 18, 2012         | Visitors: 75157


Areavoices.com Absolute Unique Visitors [Google Analytics]

Total for date range: 240522

Oct 12, 2012         | Visitors: 37362
Oct 13, 2012         | Visitors: 28211
Oct 14, 2012         | Visitors: 31140
Oct 15, 2012         | Visitors: 40507
Oct 16, 2012         | Visitors: 37905
Oct 17, 2012         | Visitors: 37525
Oct 18, 2012         | Visitors: 42274


Top Areavoices content [based on pageviews | Google Analytics]

University of North Dakota Hockey
Pageviews: 23869

Bison Media Blog
Pageviews: 10700

News Tribune Attic: Superior Street before the I-35 tunnels, 1983
Pageviews: 10080

Astro Bob
Pageviews: 9456

Topics: Politics in the parish: Some Holy Rosary parents
protest school’s ‘Vote Yes’ signs for marriage amendment
Pageviews: 5401

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Misc.
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Top Searches [across the week | internal metric]

crystal sugar     | 369
Kira Larson       | 305
DUI               | 279
bankruptcies      | 221
bar fight         | 207

Attached word cloud .PDF that expands upon the top searches of the week by showing the top 25 terms searched on Inforum.com. Each word is weighted by the number of times it was searched relative to the other terms in the cloud.