Same as last year, in 2013, in 2012, in 2011 and in 2010 we think this is a good moment to look back on the past year for U2start. 2014 was a great year for U2start with the release of version 7 of our website and of course with a new album and an upcoming tour. Our focus was to make U2start ready for what is up on the horizon and we are very ready!
U2start per timeframe
Most popular day to visit U2start: Wednesday
Most busiest month: December (least: May)
Visitors that only comes once: 33%
Visitors that come back more than 200 times: 22%
Returning visitors versus new visitors: 67% returning vs 33% new
Users versus non-users in visitors: 54% users vs 46% non-users
Visitors that visit with a mobile device: 20% (2% decrease)
Visitors that visit with a tablet: 9%
User statistics
New registrations: 1,754 (just 2 less than 2013)
Total users: 56,579 (forum posters: 3,950, show downloaders: 41,008)
Average time on site per visitor: 5m28sec (users: 8m 52sec, non-users: 3m 22sec)
Date with most new users: 2014-02-20
Countries with most new users: United States, Brazil, Italy (Italy is new in this top 3)
United States with most new users: California, Florida, New York (same as last year, although Florida has switched position with New York)
Registered genders: Male (77%), Female (23%)
Most popular translations chosen by users: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Farci, Turkish, Macedonian (in this order)
u2start visitor breakdown, darker means more: you come from all over the world!
u2start visits in 2014, labels: April, July, October, peak days in: April, September, December
Browsers that visitors use
1. Chrome (34%) (2013: 28%)
2. Safari (24%)
3. Firefox (19%)
4. Internet Explorer (12%) (in order of high to low: v11, v9, v10, v8, v7, v6)
5. Android browser (3%)
Most popular referrers (where do visitors come from)
1. Direct (favourite, URL)
2. Google
3. Twitter
4. Facebook
5. Bing
(same top 5 as last year, Twitter switched position with Facebook)
Most popular keywords in search engines to get here
1. u2 lucifer's hands audio
2. springsteen ade u2start
3. u2 torrent
(keywords like u2start and u2 start are omitted from this list)
Forum in 2014
New forum topics: 267
Total forum posts: 32,789 (slight increase of 2000 posts)
Most popular U2start liveshow: February 9: 1993 - Rotterdam
Top forum posters
1. LikeASong (4224) (third year in a row, averaging 11,5 post per day)
2. Remy (1892)
3. iTim (1771)
4. patou2 (1614)
5. RUMMY (1341)
6. MoFoNYR15 (848)
7. KieranU2 (822)
8. BelgianBono (810)
9. Buttons (764)
10. dylbagz (691)
11. Mr_Trek (659)
12. Andrew_C (652)
13. cesar_garza01 (651)
14. EyesWithPrideB3 (640)
15. RattleandHum1988 (630)
Misc. 2014 statistics
Most popular site pages: Topic, Frontpage, Shows, Photos, Active topics
Most popular mobile devices: Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy S III, Apple iPod (iPhone new number 1, was: iPad)
Average loading time of a page: 2,50 seconds
Number of quotes we have gathered in total: 712
Number of 'did you know' facts in total: 248
Number of tweets posted in 2014: 327
Number of newsletters sent in 2014: 3
Number of songs marked as favourite for a show in 2014: 101
Number of entries added to 'You Too' in 2014: 1608
Audio sources with a sample audio clip in total: 783 (more than 50%)
Names that occur the most in audio recording credits: macphisto & JEMS (eternal gratitude!)
You Too poll with the most votes in 2014: What is your rating of Invisible after a few listens? (778 votes)
Number of files U2start programmers worked on/modified in 2014: 4889
That's it! If you need any other number, please let us know. We'd be happy to share any number or list we can extract. Thank you all and let's hope U2015 will feature many more highlights and records.
Great statistics as usual Remy Thanks for all the work! And thank you all for making this the best U2 community in the world year after year. Here's to an even greater U2015