When historians look back over the 00's, November 2009 will be remembered for three news headlines that changed our lives forever:
1) Claims and Risk Management Service Provider Avizent Appoints Shirley Collinsworth to Lead Newly Created Transportation Liability Unit
2) Accuvant Named One of the Best Places to Work in Denver
3) NaNoWriMo Goes All Kinds of Crazy
Seriously.
General Stats Round Up!
(This is just for NaNoWriMo.org---NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program was also absolutely enormous this year, and will have its own round-up).
- This year, we had 167,150 participants, up 40% from 2008's total of 119,301.
- We wrote a total of 2,427,190,537 words, up 48% from 2008's collective word count of 1,643,343,993.
- This averaged out to 14,531 words per person.
- We had 32,173 winners, up 48% from 2008's total of 21,683.
- This gave us a 19.2% win rate, the highest in modern NaNoWriMo history. (Last year we had an 18.2% win rate; in 2007 it was 15.1%).
1. Seattle
2. Maryland
3. Los Angeles
4. Germany and Austria
5. New York City
6. Chicago
7. Holland and Belgium
8. Twin Cities
9. London
10. Dallas/Ft. Worth
11. Portland
12. Atlanta
13. Denver
14. Austin
15. East Bay
16. Toronto
17. Northern Virginia
18. Boston
19. Melbourne
20. England, Elsewhere
21. Vancouver
22. Houston
23. Sydney
24. Sacramento
25. South Bay
26. New Hampshire
27. Finland
28. New Zealand
29. Philly
30. San Francisco
31. San Diego
32. St. Louis
33. Salt Lake City
34. Detroit
35. Birmingham-West Midlands
36. Sweden
37. Phoenix
38. Edmonton
39. Pennsylvania, Elsewhere
40. Pittsburgh
41. Michigan, Elsewhere
42. Central New Jersey
43. Kansas City
44. France
45. Raleigh-Durham
46. Maine
47. Ottawa
48. Orlando
49. Columbus
50. Australia, Elsewhere
1. Margaret River, Australia
2. Tanzania,
3. Quebec, Quebec
4. Thailand
5. Emsdale, Ontario
6. Daytona Beach, Florida
7. Russellville, Arkansas
8. Moses Lake, Washington
9. Malta
10. Ridgecrest, California
11. Brevard County, Florida
12. Isle of Skye, Scotland
13. Fulton, Missouri
14. Kingsland, Georgia
15. Northern Ireland
16. Sebring, Florida
17. Latvia
18. Kewanee-Henry County, Illinois
19. Northeast Ireland
20. Sudbury, Ontario
21. Chadron, Nebraska
22. Lewisville, North Carolina
23. Cornwall, England
24. Oxford, Ohio
25. Dickinson, North Dakota
26. Plymouth, Massachusetts
27. Micronesia
28. Longview, Texas
29. Chattanooga, Tennessee
30. Richmond, Indiana
31. Central Iowa
32. Lake County, Ohio
33. Emporia, Kansas
34. Marion, Ohio
35. Lewis County, Washington
36. Exeter and Devon, England
37. Oxfordshire, England
38. Naperville, Illinois
39. France
40. Taiwan
41. Elsewhere, South Carolina
42. Key West, Florida
43. Niagara, Ontario
44. Gloucester and Cheltenham, England
45. Tiffin, Ohio
46. North Bay, Ontario
47. Bulgaria
48. McMinnville, Oregon
49. Elsewhere, Idaho
50. Switzerland
Our site traffic was also off the charts. Thanks to a generous educational grant covering our fall quarter, we were able to move to Amazon Web Services EC2, which completely rocked our pancakes, and allowed us to add dozens of servers in the blink of an eye. Which we did. Oh, did we ever. Site slowness was effectively ended. We rejoiced.
In November, we had 4,014,203 visits, up 44% from 2008. We had 25,710,491 pageviews, up 48% from 2008.
Top 50 NaNoWriMo Cities according to Google Analytics, based on Number of November Visits from those Fine Places
City/Visits
1. London 109,608
2. New York 53,280
3. Seattle 46,252
4. Los Angeles 44,234
5. Portland 39,124
6. San Francisco 38,047
7. Melbourne 33,916
8. Sydney 33,042
9. Denver 32,369
10. Chicago 32,237
11. (not set) 30,774
12. Minneapolis 24,113
13. Austin 20,101
14. Washington 19,305
15. Atlanta 18,880
16. Edmonton 17,392
17. Brisbane 16,332
18. St Louis 15,951
19. Sacramento 15,712
20. Houston 15,165
21. Calgary 15,107
22. Don Mills 15,026
23. Dallas 14,907
24. Salt Lake City 14,116
25. Manchester 13,957
26. Tucson 13,732
27. Vancouver 13,619
28. Columbus 13,381
29. Ottawa 13,182
30. Albuquerque 12,797
31. Phoenix 12,673
32. Helsinki 12,558
33. Philadelphia 12,295
34. Eugene 12,293
35. Raleigh 12,121
36. Perth 11,809
37. Indianapolis 11,377
38. San Antonio 11,294
39. Colorado Springs 11,167
40. Auckland 10,884
41. Dublin 10,788
42. Singapore 10,671
43. San Diego 10,639
44. Brooklyn 10,573
45. Pittsburgh 10,351
46. Madison 10,276
47. Honolulu 9965
48. Adelaide 9946
49. Birmingham 9908
50. Kansas City 9893
Top 50 NaNoWriMo Countries according to Google Analytics, based on Number of November Visits from those Fine Places
Country/Visits
1. United States 2,818,077
2. United Kingdom 314,267
3. Canada 282,009
4. Australia 117,785
5. Germany 64,368
6. Netherlands 52,598
7. Finland 29,774
8. Sweden 25,940
9. New Zealand 23,171
10. France 23,163
11. (not set) 18,304
12. Ireland 14,818
13. Norway 13,691
14. Japan 12,583
15. Philippines 11,383
16. South Africa 10,983
17. Singapore 10,717
18. Spain 10,626
19. Belgium 10,518
20. Denmark 10,193
21. India 10,172
22. Austria 8800
23. Mexico 8542
24. Italy 7572
25. Switzerland 7173
26. South Korea 6592
27. Malaysia 5731
28. Brazil 4657
29. Portugal 4450
30. Israel 3907
31. China 3513
32. Indonesia 3280
33. Poland 3205
34. Hong Kong 3085
35. Romania 2826
36. Hungary 2568
37. Argentina 2535
38. Russia 2427
39. Puerto Rico 2366
40. Estonia 2347
41. Latvia 1957
42. Turkey 1945
43. United Arab Emirates 1796
44. Czech Republic 1743
45. Chile 1652
46. Greece 1629
47. Thailand 1465
48. Iceland 1136
49. Guam 1127
50. Taiwan 1111
Yay, stats geeking!
So, if this was your first time, how did it go? If you're a returning Wrimo, how did this NaNoWriMo feel different from previous years? Did the bigger crowds make for a more exciting event? Or just bigger crowds? Did you meet any interesting characters at write-ins? Did your region move up the list of wordiness? We'd love to hear your thoughts, impressions, and highlights of NaNo 2009!
Chris
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