Q: How many individuals viewed the Ada Icon in 2015?
A: Would you believe 42,684? That’s the answer, according to Google Analytics.

The analytic program tracks more statistics that we know what to do with. Needless to say, it reveals lots of significant information.

We’d like to share some of our 2015 facts and figures with viewers. For starters, those 42,684 viewers clicked on the Icon almost 100,000 times, or an average of a little over 8,000 total visits each month.

2015 viewer summary

178,933 pages visited
98,350 total visits (many viewers visiting more than once a day)
42,684 individuals visiting
1.8 pages opened per visit
1:15 minutes average session duration
8,195 average total visits per month
3,557 average individual viewers per month

Visitors were from:
127 countries
50 states
447 Ohio cities and villages

Top three Ohio visitor locations:
1 – Ada
2 – Kenton
3 – Lima
4 - Findlay

Top 10 state visitor locations:
1 – Ohio
2 – Michigan
3 – Florida
4 – Illinois
5 – Texas

Top pages viewed:
1 – Home page
2 – News in Ada
3 – Classified/display ad
4  - Vivia Maria menu page
5 – Photo gallery
6 - Obituaries

Most viewed stories
1,731 Former Owlsburg bar will become family restaurant
1,621 Police investigate 22-year-old death
1,213 Vancrest will build in Ada
1,208 Community support for Amelia Griffin
1,055 54 million gallons of water fell on Ada in 30 minutes
1,048 Cadets food feature
1,034 Cedar Cove closes

Days with highest number of individual views
(includes one major story plus all other visits on that date)
2,036 – Dec. 26 - Police investigate 22-year-old death
1,981 – Sept. 22 - Former Owlsburg bar will become family restaurant
1,523 – July 17 – Flooding in Ada
1,451 – May 26 – Cedar Cove closes, Ada HS graduation
1,302 – Sept. 30 – Owlsburg update

Week with the highest number of individual views
5,746 – Sept. 20-26
5,053 - June 14-20
5,168 – Oct. 4-10
2,487 – June 21-27

YouTube Video of 2015
2,453 – The Cadets performance

1,149 Facebook followers