May Stats

[bobandbill]

The short but sweet version - same sort of cyclic weekly pattern with a minor decrease each week... and then Magikarp Jump happened.

The Raw Numbers
May total views: 48,992 (April: 51,909, March: 67,351)
May total visitors: 34,583 (April: 35,790, March: 47,049)
May average views/day: 1,580 (April: 1,398, March: 2,173)
Daily High Score: 4,730 (Best ever: 78,064 views, April: 5,270)
Lowest Score (for a full day): 1,167 (April: 1,274, March: 1,401)
Number of 100+ days: 31 (April: 30, March: 31)

Image of hits/day:

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Partly a shame, the cyclic weekly pattern was nice to look at and then it got broken. :V Also I actually managed to screenshot just before the month ended!

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As you can see, steady but small decreases (bar the middle of the month; pretty much on par to the previous week there) until we did the guide article. Note that the news about Magikarp Jump releasing was a week before... but then hard to excite people on that when it was Italy and iOS only at the time.

Articles visited since start of month until 1st Jun:

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(Note that articles posted in the month have the orange tab to the left. Those with < 30 hits in the month were cut for image size.)

Note that the article was released barely a couple days before the month ended. It could have taken top spot with another day! Cheers to Soapy and Kyle for helping write up.

TCG Set Review: Rising Rivals v2.0 should have a orange tab next to it btw as it was released right at the end of April by Daily time. So it's also done pretty well with a couple thousand views in May. Then we had the SM update article and Lycanroc distribution followed by other news. My speculation article on Marshadow did better than the news from Coro Coro... guess it was nothing actually new in it for people to care. Feel justified in doing that article nonetheless. :V

Note that although overall we are a touch below April stats, that's partly down to downward views across the board for the SM/Duel guide articles. Which makes sense. MJ guide helps but that will decrease in a couple months too.

Google-specific stats ('clicks' = views, lower than total stats):

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You can see just how stark the difference is between the brand new guide and the months-old one (MJ and Duel respectively). Neat too that the 3 of the first 4 searches had to do with MJ, before the most-click-giving SM search.

Of course that's Google: Search engines terms (what people put in anything but Google to get to the magazine.

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(Removed those that gave only one click.)

Duel remained king on other search engines. And then Eevee.

Google search terms by clickthrough rate (CTR; top 50):

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(Removed those that gave only one click.)

'Shiny eevee names' must be for the nickname article we have. Most are SM-related search terms, but there's exceptions like 'pokemon jump canada' and 'make a mega'.

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

qeneretion 's last episode
shaymin ex overpowered
whats the new nickname for eevee
why solgaleo has its basic form
12 october 2016 dailysun control
android 7.1.1 mock location
why muk so colourful in alola
xvedo japan rap vedo
japiness girls rap videos
pokemon tucan
scans daily

Google's top clicked pages (top 50):

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Bulk of the MJ Guide article coming from google searches then!

Referrers (what sites people came from to visit the magazine):

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Google wins of course. We lost that huge spike from FB we got for April alone (think 3,000 extra referrals from there!)

Clicks (links clicked in articles)

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Official Pokemon sites topped again.

Country breakdown:

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US on top. Brazil (just) snuck into the 1000 club for the month, while the Philippines dropped out of it.

 

[blue]

Had a feeling Magikarp jump would have a heavy impact on the stats. Great to see the SM guides still attracting a lot of views too!

 

[ddrox13]

If people are searching for Pokemon nicknames we should do more articles in that vein :P

Nice to see the TCG article doing well.

And my reactions to the weird searches:

qeneretion 's last episode - T Y P O S.
shaymin ex overpowered - Well, he's not wrong. This is actually a decently common search.
whats the new nickname for eevee - The NEW Nickname(tm)
why solgaleo has its basic form - PLOT DEVICES!
12 october 2016 dailysun control - Do I even want to know what this linked to?
android 7.1.1 mock location - ByeBye Go Spoofing!
why muk so colourful in alola - Because RAINBOW POISON WOOOOO
xvedo japan rap vedo - ...Pass.
japiness girls rap videos - Arceus know what these two linked to.
pokemon tucan - Ummmmm... Toucan, and the Pokemon is Toucannon.
scans daily - Probably went TCG as well.