CityPages.com Traffic Jam: April 2009
By Jen Boyles in The Traffic Jam
Wednesday, May. 13 2009 @ 8:00AM
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April brought our much-anticipated Best Of The Twin Cities issue to newsstands, and we offered some exclusive store tours and previews online. By month's end, we had superseded March by about 55,000 pageviews, with April coming in at a CityPages.com best-ever record of 2,588,271 -- up from 2.2 million at this time in 2008 (These numbers are pulled from our internal ad tracking server, 24/7 OAS, which doesn't count a pageview if there's no ad served on it).
Breaking down those hits further, our news blog, Blotter, grew by about 40,000 views this month with a total of 494,294 pageviews. Heavy hitters proved to be a post about the MN Zoo's new baby camels , the airline industry's cracking down on fat passengers, and a disturbing story about a baby in Wisconsin who overdosed on cocaine (all three finding favor with Digg users). And, not to outdo herself, Rep. Michelle Bachmann showed up in three of our top ten posts.
Meanwhile, music blog Gimme Noise slipped a bit, finishing April with about 141,000 pageviews.Top posts included a theory about UK Idol's Susan Boyle, a facetious post about Britney wedding one of our own icon artists, Scott Seekins, and a video interview with Mark Wheat, who won our Best FM Personality award.
Hot Dish mostly held steady this month with 109,000 pageviews (down a barely detectable 5K from last month) -- again hitting big with deal seekers and Punch Pizza lovers across the cities, even offering up food scene gossip (from Trader Joes vs the Wedge to a lawsuit filed by the meat handlers at Fogo).
Slideshows were a hit as usual this month -- and while most of the time photos of national bands' local shows or our Club Shots series are the ones with the biggest impact, this time our top ten saw many a fashion photoset -- including recaps of both Envision and Voltage. Hey, it was a fashiony month in Minneapolis.
Giving us a nice push at month's end was staff writers Bradley Campbell and Matt Smith's national feature on the Craigslist murders and Erin Carlyle's piece about St. Paul publishing giant Westlaw (both will give May an added boost as well).
Stay tuned next month for May's roundup, and if you're wondering what we're up to in between, find us at our respective blogs or on twitter at /citypages, /gimme_noise, and /hotdishblog. We'll be buried under cans of Jolt and half-eaten TV dinners, barely illuminated by the glow of our laptops, trying to beat that elusive high score.
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