April Stats

Even more plateauing, with some peak early in the month.

The Raw Numbers
April total views: 51,909 (March: 67,351, February: 117,524)
April total visitors: 35,790 (March: 47,049, February: 84,229)
April average views/day: 1,398 (March: 2,173, February: 4,197)
Daily High Score: 5,270 (Best ever: 78,064 views, March: 3,319)
Lowest Score (for a full day): 1,274 (March: 1,401, February: 3,009)
Number of 100+ days: 30 (March: 31, February: 31)

Image of hits/day:

Unfortunately I was just slightly too late to capture April 1st in the first screenshot. No matter; the number is in the second image! 5,000 in one day is quite good in this period of news quietness, and it's thanks to the April Fools articles we did (with one in particular).

Otherwise things calmed down since then, with the usual weekly cyclic behaviour (peaking on the American weekend).

Articles visited since start of month until 1st May:
(Note that articles posted in the month have the orange tab to the left. Those with < 25 hits in the month were cut for image size.)

The Slowpoke event article for AF (yes guys, it was a prank) rated very well. Well done with the idea and execution, gimmepie! It was by far the most viewed new article.

News was not that exciting in April either, with Mega stone and Marshadow events articles only in the 200s or so. Pity everyone knew about Marshadow thanks to SM leaks anyway, but the two articles on it do combine to near 600 views. Kostas' anime anniversary article was well received, and yet about a fan feature ranked highly (the Places on Earth as regions article). GO didn't rank quite as highly this time around, but anti-spoofing news did seem to be of some interest.

Google-specific stats ('clicks' = views, lower than total stats):
These matched up pretty well this month. Duel still gives the most clicks out of any single search term (makes sense given all those impressions; means the article still ranks highly on google!)

Search engines terms (what people put in anything but Google to get to the magazine.
(Removed those that gave only one click.)

Google search terms by clickthrough rate (CTR; top 50):
(Removed those that gave only one click.)

The usual suspects here.

The funny and weird searches (that got clicks, and including google) include:

rowlet I choose you
pokmon duel geams
japanese rap
ash greninja gif
dexमूबी
tapu z cryst
there any chances that ash and greninja going to alola in sun and moon anime
why use mr hyper
japneg rap video
how to draw lunala easy
dfestival plaza.guide.sun moon

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Google's top clicked pages (top 50):
(Removed those that gave only one click.)

Referrers (what sites people came from to visit the magazine):
Wow, facebook was huge for us this month. Twitter similar to March.

Clicks (links clicked in articles)
i#.wp.com are images we uploaded and host. People click them to see e.g. bigger versions!

Country breakdown:
US on top. Brazil and Netherlands dropped out of the 1000 club this time around.