Here are BikePortland’s traffic stats from the month of June. Two topics dominated the public’s interest this month (and both brought in considerable traffic from outside our usual readership): The World Naked Bike Ride and last Thursday’s Michael Jackson memorial karaoke dance party on wheels.
Visits – 200,902
Average visit length – 02:55
Pages viewed – 493,795
Front page stories posted – 105
Top Five Stories (*In terms of pageviews analyzed by Google Analytics):
1. “An estimated 5,000 take part in Portland’s World Naked Bike Ride”
2. “Doing the World Naked Bike Ride this year? Read this first”
3. “BikeSnobNYC on our MJ Memorial Ride: ‘Enough already!'”
4. “Tonight we ride, sing, and dance for Michael Jackson”
5. “You know it’s a ‘Cycling Circus’ when a bunch of naked people show up”
Check out our past traffic stats and top stories here.
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The formula for success… naked people and Michael Jackson.