NewCanaanite.com Hits All-Time Traffic High for Month of November

NewCanaanite.com hit its all-time high for a single month of traffic in November.

Anchored by election coverage at the start of the month and the arrests by warrant of three Darien teens on the even of the Turkey Bowl at the end of the month, the local news site reached 144,903 pageviews.

The figure narrowly beats the prior all-time high of 144,685, set in July. Seven of the 10 highest-traffic months for NewCanaanite.com have come in 2017.

Here’s a look at the top-10 months since NewCanaanite.com launched in January 2014, with the single-most-read story from each month:

Highest-Ever Traffic Months, NewCanaanite.com

Month	Pageviews	Top Story
November 2017	144,903	Three Darien Teens Arrested after Assault in New Canaan; Trio Includes At Least Two DHS Football Players
July 2017	144,685	‘Patio and Lawn Covered in Vomit’: New Canaan Dad, Son, Daughter Arrested after Underage Drinking Party
May 2017	134,891	Interfering Charge for New Canaan Man, 59, in Oenoke Ridge Underage Drinking Party Case; Felony Charge for Teenage Son
October 2017	127,670	Police: Darien Man Charged with Animal Cruelty; New Canaan Woman Says Her Dog Died in Care of ‘Terry’s House of Pets’
June 2017	126,040	Police on Untimely Death: New Canaan Man, 56, Appears To Have Shot Himself in Parking Lot at Talmadge Hill Train Station
August 2017	121,633	New Canaan Boy, 5, Remains in Intensive Care After Near Drowning in Stamford
September 2017	120,914	Chilling Details of New Canaan Boy’s Drowning Emerge in Arrest Warrant Application
April 2016	119,632	‘She Was the Best Soul I Knew’: Friends, Colleagues, Students and Parents Remember Kelly Devine
December 2016	114,761	After Profound Loss, New Canaan Dad Launches Support Group To Help Parents of Kids Struggling with Addiction
March 2016	114,170	After Angry Woman Throws Ice Cream Sundae, ‘BOGO Tuesdays’ at Baskin Robbins in Jeopardy

Source: Google Analytics

 

Created, published, reported and edited by 1993 New Canaan High School graduate Michael Dinan, with a team of freelancer contributors, NewCanaanite.com focuses on quality-of-life matters for New Canaanites, including pets, parks, traffic, land use, parking, the downtown, resident profiles and local history. For work published in its first calendar year, NewCanaanite.com earned eight ‘Excellence in Journalism’ awards from the Connecticut Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, then 18 the next, including eight first-place awards.

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