I’d like to extend my heartfelt thanks to readers of The Locker Room and JLF’s other blogs. Traffic to our blogs has continued to soar during the second quarter of 2008. For the first time in our history, visits and page views at our blogs now make up more than half of all the traffic across our suite of 13 websites.
Here’s the 2nd quarter report at a glance:
? JLF sites attracted a daily average of about 6,000 visits and 18,000 page views. These measures are up 35 percent and 57 percent over this time last year.
? JLF blog traffic is up between 62 percent and 100 percent from the second quarter of 2007, depending on the measure.
? While our Charlotte, Triangle, and Triad blogs have continued to maintain their sizable audiences, our fastest-growing blog sites are Squall Lines (Wilmington/Coastal NC) and The Wild West (Asheville/WNC). The former doubled its page views and posted a 72 percent rise in unique visitors over 2007. The Wild West hasn’t been around a full year, but in recent months its average visits have been nearly twice as high as last fall’s.
? JohnLocke.org, which includes Locker Room, accounts for about a quarter of JLF’s total page views. CarolinaJournal.com draws about one-fifth. Our regional blog sites account for one-third, and our Outreach sites ? including NorthCarolinaHistory.org and other special projects ? make up the final fifth.
