The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018; sounds reasonable enough, right?
In 2018, the fourteenth year of The Signpost, a total of 157 articles have been published spanning 12 issues from January to December. Collectively these 157 articles, created by 64 Wikipedia users, have received a total of 353,134 pageviews until 7 December. After including views from the first page and the single-page edition the pageviews sum reaches 388,484. These 12 issues have also seen a total of 1,222 comments, totaling 96,473 words.[a]
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The Signpost statistics 2018, an effort to understand The Signpost, throws up various other findings, such as:
- The article in The Signpost which has the highest all-time pageviews in 2018 is "Death knell sounding for The Signpost?". Out of the 157 articles it is the only article to have crossed 5,000 views this year. However, when considering highest page views attained in one week, the article "News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend" has the most with 2,290 pageviews.
- On average, an article in 2018 got 848 pageviews in one week and 2,387 all-time page views.
- Only five articles in 2018 have crossed 4,000 page views (all time), listed below:
| Date | Article title | Pageviews (all-time) |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Mar | Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost? | 4,988 |
| 29 Jun | From the editor: The Admin Ship is still barely afloat, while a Foundation project risks sinking | 4,068 |
| 30 Aug | News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend | 4,061 |
| 20 Feb | News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators | 4,054 |
| 29 Jun | Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page | 4,038 |
- Average views per article (one week total) for the first six months – January to May – is 780, and for the last six months – June to December – is 906. Although this indicates a general increase in readership per article from the beginning of 2018 to the end of the year, this increase in readership cannot be observed when average all-time views per article are considered.
- Over 80% of all page views of any given Signpost article come in the first four weeks.
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