Q: What story on the Icon received the greatest number of views in 2018?
How many pages were viewed on Ada Icon in 2018?
Go ahead. Guess. Answer: 323,438.
That is according to Google Analytics, which keep track of lots of things happening on the Icon.
Here’s some addition interesting viewer facts covering 2018:
An average of 5,414 individuals view the Icon in a typical 30-day period. The average time spent on the Icon by a viewer is 1 minute 16 seconds.
What were the top viewed stories in 2018?
1 – April 9 – New water park, 3,119 views
2 – Feb. 25 – Walk outs not sanctioned by Ada school, 2,082 views
3 – Jan. 29 – Susan Putt, retired ONU professor wins
$24,168 on Wheel of Fortune, 1,408 views
4 – Dec. 23 – 3 Brothers Pizza has new owners, 1,349 views
5 – May 3 – Requiem for Clark Hall, 1,234 views
6 – Feb. 21 – Seth Conley will play football at ONU, 1, 044 views
Here's more stats:
People from 536 Ohio villages and cities (that’s nearly all Ohio towns) viewed the Icon. Most viewers live in:
1. Ada
2. Kenton
3. Lima
4. Findlay
5. Bluffton
6. Wapakoneta
7. Bellefontaine
8. Alger
9. Forest
10. Dunkirk
Nearly every month, the Ada Icon has viewers from all 50 states. The majority are from Ohio. Here are the top 10 states with viewers in 2018:
1. Ohio
2. Michigan
3. Massachusetts
4. Florida
5. Oregon
6. Texas
7. Illinois
8. New York
9. Pennsylvania
10. Indiana
Viewers in the U.S. represent the greatest number of viewers. These countries round out the top 10 in viewers:
2. Norway
3. Peru
4. Australia
5. India
6. France
7. Philippines
8. Canada
9. United Kingdom
10. South Korea
The most viewed pages on the Icon:
1 – News in Ada
2 – Obituaries
3 – Classified ads
4 – Photo gallery
5 – Classified ads
6 - Sports
Top 6 browsers used to view The Icon:
1 – Chrome
2 – Safari (in-app)
3 – Android Webview
4 – Safari
5 – Internet Explorer
6 – Foxfire
7 – Edge
Top 4 web providers used to view The Icon:
1 – Time Warner
2 – Verizon
3 – Quest
4 – Ohio Northern University
Facebook is the primary social media used in attracting viewers to the Icon. As of Dec. 31, 2018, the Icon has the following number of friends:
2,422 Facebook followers
158 Instagram followers (launched in October)
60 Twitter followers (launched in October)
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