Bumper month on Argus website (From The Argus)
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Bumper month on Argus website
6:00pm Sunday 3rd February 2013 in News
January was a record-breaking month for The Argus online, with hundreds of thousands of people coming to us for the news.
The combination of snow, the Brighton and Hove Albion players trial and the thrill of transfer deadline day contributed to the record numbers.
During January, 565,516 individuals visited the site 1,535,742 times to view 4,793,271 pages.
There was a whopping 86,959 views of The Argus live snow blogs, which provided an invaluable service to readers who wanted to keep up-to-date with the latest traffic, travel and weather news, as well as school closures.
Tuesday, January 22, the night drivers had to abandon their vehicles in Falmer Road due to heavy snow, was the busiest day with almost 297,000 page views.
This was followed by Wednesday, January 23, when the live blog received 10,000 views between 6am and 7am.
It is never too early for reporters to start live updates when snow is on the ground, and we know people want their information first before they head off for work or the school run.
We also strive to engage with our readers, and our picture gallery of your snow photographs attracted 107,643 views.
Adding to this was our video collection bringing you a different perspective.
And we even had one of our reporters fitted with a headcam as he cycled through the snow, to give you another viewpoint.
The site also had a social media feed making sure your Tweets were included in the debate and updates.
But it is not just for the snow that we have used live blogs to bring you the latest news.
A total of 86,102 people have followed our daily live updates of the Brighton and Hove Albion players’ trial at the Old Bailey.
The four players are accused of sexual assault and the trial continues into early February.
Our sports team also used a live blog to capture the real-time thrills and spills of the January window transfer deadline.
The live blog ran for 15 hours until 11pm on January 31, attracting 38,220 views.
Comments(12)
leobrighton
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7:30pm Sun 3 Feb 13
worthingite
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8:23pm Sun 3 Feb 13
Nobody has come up with an answer to this yet,a paywall will not work ?
Any ideas ?
inadaptado
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9:38pm Sun 3 Feb 13
worthingite wrote:There's seven ad banners in this page alone, what else do you want?
How does a regional paper turn this into revenue,this is the problem,paper sales are falling across the UK and more people on the web,TV audiences are 450,000 to 500,000 for the 18.00 news so puts these figures to shame for the whole month....
Nobody has come up with an answer to this yet,a paywall will not work ?
Any ideas ?
Hovegeek
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9:48pm Sun 3 Feb 13
Hovegeek
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9:50pm Sun 3 Feb 13
BHAFC151
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10:50pm Sun 3 Feb 13
Poccypoc
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6:20am Mon 4 Feb 13
Fourth par: It should be "There WERE a whopping 86,959 views of The Argus live snow blogs."
Fifth par: There should be a comma between "day" and "with."
Ninth par: It should be "added," not "adding," at the start.
Tenth par: Never start a sentence with "and."
Twelfth par 12: Why have you written "tweets with a capital "t"?
Par 13: Never start a sentence with "but."
worthingite
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7:27am Mon 4 Feb 13
inadaptado wrote:Thats not really going to pay the overheads is it,have you seen the cost of one of these ads,given away.
worthingite wrote:There's seven ad banners in this page alone, what else do you want?
How does a regional paper turn this into revenue,this is the problem,paper sales are falling across the UK and more people on the web,TV audiences are 450,000 to 500,000 for the 18.00 news so puts these figures to shame for the whole month....
Nobody has come up with an answer to this yet,a paywall will not work ?
Any ideas ?
Come on,all the ads on every page of the Argus pay only the Editors wage.
Lets wait for Junes ABC figures to see the real truth.
If The Argus continue putting news about burnt out motorbikes on the web,its also had it.
nosolution
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9:49am Mon 4 Feb 13
Poccypoc wrote:You are not playing golf matey.What the dickens is "twelfth par 12"?Here's a tip,keep your sentence starts when quoting the same,it looks and sounds very scruffy otherwise and there's no natural pause between day and with either(paragraph 5) I could have marked your comment as 5/10,in other words "could do better" but no one really gives a hoot..
Still often badly-written, however. Fourth par: It should be "There WERE a whopping 86,959 views of The Argus live snow blogs." Fifth par: There should be a comma between "day" and "with." Ninth par: It should be "added," not "adding," at the start. Tenth par: Never start a sentence with "and." Twelfth par 12: Why have you written "tweets with a capital "t"? Par 13: Never start a sentence with "but."
Wiggsy
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12:33pm Mon 4 Feb 13
nosolution wrote:Would suggest you review your own grammatical shortcomings before commenting on others.
Poccypoc wrote: Still often badly-written, however. Fourth par: It should be "There WERE a whopping 86,959 views of The Argus live snow blogs." Fifth par: There should be a comma between "day" and "with." Ninth par: It should be "added," not "adding," at the start. Tenth par: Never start a sentence with "and." Twelfth par 12: Why have you written "tweets with a capital "t"? Par 13: Never start a sentence with "but."You are not playing golf matey.What the dickens is "twelfth par 12"?Here's a tip,keep your sentence starts when quoting the same,it looks and sounds very scruffy otherwise and there's no natural pause between day and with either(paragraph 5) I could have marked your comment as 5/10,in other words "could do better" but no one really gives a hoot..
Sarah Booker Lewis
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6:14pm Mon 4 Feb 13
Hovegeek wrote:Argus reporters have neither the time or inclination to comment on their own stories.
Are there any stats on how many article comments were from the authors themselves attempting to stimulate debate?
Comments are written by the general public.
Occasionally, such as now, Argus staff will respond to comments and we always use our own names.
Ohnotagain ! says...
7:04pm Sun 3 Feb 13
How about the circulation figures since the increase please !!