Same as last year, in 2012, in 2011 and in 2010 we think this is a good moment to look back on the past year for U2start. 2013 was a great year for U2start with the start of changes to our recording system and major improvements to features like LiveTopics. Time to look back!
U2start per timeframe
Most popular day to visit U2start: Tuesday
Most busiest month: January (least: April)
Visitors that only comes once: 30%
Visitors that come back more than 200 times: 24%
Visitors that visit with a mobile device: 22% (last year 13%)
Visitors that visit with a tablet: 9%
User statistics
New registrations: 1,756 (+ 4%)
Date with most new users: 2013-01-06
Countries with most new users: United States, Brazil, Great Brittain (Brazil is new in this top 3)
United States with most new users: California, New York, Florida (same as last year)
Registered genders: Male (75%), Female (25%)
Most popular translations chosen by users: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Farci, Turkish and Macedonian (in this order)
u2start visitor breakdown, darker means more: you come from all over the world!
Browsers that visitors use
1. Chrome (28%) (new number one, previously 4th)
2. Safari (24%)
3. Firefox (21%)
4. Internet Explorer (20%) (in order from high to low: version 9, 10, 8, 7 & 11)
5. Android browser (3%)
Most popular referers (where do visitors come from)
1. Direct (favorite, URL)
2. Google
3. Facebook
4. Twitter
5. Bing
(same top 5 as last year)
Most popular keywords in search engines to get here
1. u2 the edge catwalk
2. drewhiggins membera photos
3. u2 lausanne 1993 flac
(keywords like u2start and u2 start are omitted from this list)
Forum in 2013
New forum topics: 224
Total forum posts: 30,302
Most popular U2start liveshow: August 4: 2000 - Irving Plaza
Top forum posters
1. LikeASong (4534) (last year's top poster with 5387 posts, in 2013 averaging 12,42 posts per day)
2. clover68 (2528)
3. RUMMY (1988)
4. patou2 (1796)
5. dylbagz (1647)
6. iTim (1424)
7. Buttons (1076)
8. ade (1037)
9. Risto (914)
10. KieranU2 (882)
11. EDDMB (786)
12. wtshnnfb01 (735)
13. MoFoNYR15 (707)
14. bartajax (674)
15. fabian (601)
Misc. 2013 statistics
Most popular site pages: Forum overview, Catalogue, Active topics
Average time on site per visitor: 5m40 (2 seconds longer than last year)
Most popular mobile devices: Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Samsung Galaxy S II, Google Nexus 7
That's it! If you need any other number, please let us know!
To end this message, I wish you all the best in 2014, let's hope it will be a wonderful U2014 for all of us!
Some of these stats scare me - like knowing what device is being used to connect to this site. Someone is probably watching me type this write now...watching each character appear on the screen as they come...I'm freaking out.