Q: How many individuals viewed the Bluffton Icon in 2015?
A: Would you believe 138,203? 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 138,203 viewers clicked on the Icon almost one-half million times, or an average of 1,220 total visits per day!
 
2015 viewer summary
 
1,159,103 pages visited
445,600 total visits (many viewers visiting more than once a day)
138,302 individuals visiting
2.6 pages opened per visit
2:01 average session duration
37,133 average total visits per month
11,525 average individuals viewers per month
 
Visitors were from
161 countries
50 states
521 Ohio cities and villages
 
Top three Ohio visitor locations
1 – Bluffton
2 – Lima
3 - Findlay
 
Top 10 state visitor locations
1 – Ohio
2 – Florida
3 – Michigan
4 – Illinois
5 – Indiana
6 – California
7 – Texas
8 – New York
9 – North Carolina
10 – Virginia
 
Top pages viewed
1 – Home page
2 – Classified/display ad page
3 – News in Bluffton
4  - Obituaries
5 – Photo gallery
6 – Advertiser index
7 – Calendar
 
Most viewed stories
4,076 Flooding in June
3,476 Accident at Lincoln Highway and 235
2,766 Lu Lu’s opening
2,112 Flooding closes I -75
2,042 Chinese restaurant opens
1,661 Mexican restaurant opens
1,629 BHS homecoming court
 
Days with highest number of individual views
4,517 – June 16, flooding in Bluffton and Ada
3,462 – Sept. 22, Former Owlsburg bar announces plays to open a family restaurant corner of 235 and Old 30
2,757 – June 27, flooding in Bluffton
 
Week with the highest number of individual views
8,508 – July 12-18
8,276 – June 14-20
7,085 – Sept. 20-26
 
Most popular YouTube videos
1,204 – June 27, Bluffton flooding
1,181 – Feb. 14, Whiteout on Interstate 74
   704 – June 27, Harmon Field flooding
   612 – Jan. 20, accident at Lincoln Highway and 235
   440 – July 24 – Turf laid on university football field
 
Social media
2,057 Facebook followers
   634 Twitter followers
   233 Instagram followers
   113 YouTube followers
      24 Pinterest followers
 
Top five Icon browser users
139,997 Chrome
102,095 Internet Explorer
98,516 Safari
45,153 – Safari (in-app)
33,679 Firefox
 
Top five networks
149,556 Time Warner
62,189 Embarq Corp.
60,772 Not known
14,030 Cellco dba Verizon
13,472 Watch TV
 
Viewers use
229,336 Desktops
149,123 Mobile
 67,334 Tablets