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December 2009 stats and top stories

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Here are BikePortland’s traffic stats from the month of December, 2009.

The most popular posts of the month included the report of a traffic court judge’s controversial and existential ruling about bike lanes which stirred up over 200 reader comments. Also popular was the report confirming the first decrease in city bike traffic counts in five years. Top five posts are listed below

Here are the overall stats for the month:
Visits – 161,703 (+20% over Dec. 2008)
Average visit length – 02:39
Pages viewed – 334,025
Front page stories posted – 91
Stolen Bike Listings – 32

Here are BikePortland’s traffic stats from the month of October, 2009.

The most popular post of the month (counted by page views using Google Analytics) was our story covering the Oregon Manifest Constructor’s Design Challenge. That was followed by the unusual mention of a story outside our region highlighting the death of a Texas couple while riding their tandem and the leniency given to the person who killed them due to limited rules on distracted driving.

Following on a lighter and long sustained note came the Hopworks Beerfiets story we published back in September which rattled around the web enough to place it as the third most popular post during October. In fourth was the Mayor’s proclamation of October 9th as Bicycle Messenger Appreciation Day following in the footsteps of San Francisco and Toronto.

Here are BikePortland’s traffic stats from the month of July. Two of our stories — an editorial about the “Should Cyclists Pay a Road Tax?” ad on the MAX, and an article about a bid to convert the Memorial Coliseum into a venue for bike racing, were picked up and spread widely among local news media; our story about credit card fraud at an online retailer gained national attention.

Our third most popular story this month was actually posted in mid-June — the World Naked Bike Ride is, apparently, always news.

Finally, Jonathan’s story about a three-family bike camping trip he went on a few weeks ago was the sleeper story of the month, earning a lot of enthusiastic traffic and expanding the public view of just what’s possible with kids, and without a car.

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.