Thanks for a great year!

No don’t worry I’m not shutting down for the year – I usually do an end of year recap of the numbers and a thank you to all the readers..but with January 1 being on a weekend I figured I’d rather say thanks while a few folks are still killing time in the office.

I found this graph interesting because some of the big spikes came at the same times as last year, including an annual Thanksgiving-ish uniform news bump.  Naturally interest in the Mets picks up in March and then stays hot until the team cools off.  (Take a look at how jazzed people were in May when the scrappy team was hanging in there.)

Page views were up 69% again this year – just around 1.2 million for the year depending on how the weekend goes (1,117,542 right now if you are curious. Those are Google Analytics numbers, if you want me to wow you with some stats from other sources that are less accurate I can, but spyders don’t read articles.)

Here’s a cool ego-graph.  Using Alexa I punched in a few blogs you’ve heard of.  Mets Police is the one in blue.  So while that red site is still 60 times more popular, we’re kinda hanging in there with that one in yellow which ain’t bad at all.

These two make me laugh…

• Relative to the general internet population, 25-34 year olds are over-represented at metspolice.com. Confidence: medium
• Relative to the general internet population, 35-44 year olds are greatly under-represented at metspolice.com. Confidence: medium

I’m not sure what that means.  I guess “you kids” like listening to an old man (in his 40’s) rant, and the people my own age don’t?  Nope, must be a Mets thing because I pulled the same data for that red website and the yellow one and they have the same breakdowns.

The site is also over-indexed for people making over $100,000…I just mention that in case youre’a prospective advertiser and want to contact me at [email protected]

Thanks to our great partners at TiqIq, FanvsFan and the Mets Police Store on Amazon for helping me make a few bucks….as Media Goon says, it’s jersey money..we don’t get rich doing this.

Thank you for incoming links, especially Matt and Paul.

Thank you Mets for letting me be part of some cool events especially the uniform unveiling.

Thanks to Dan for writing here and there (great series with the old newspapers he found) and especially for Media Goon for always being on-call when all hell broke loose.

And most importantly thank YOU for reading the site.  It makes it fun to do when you know there’s a community on the other side of the router.

MP has come a long way from that first year of 8,000 or so visitors.  With the way information-sharing is changing and the old-guard media giving way to idiots in their own basements (my mom doesn’t have a basement) typing away, I find the future exciting.  When it’s easy to stream live video (or pictures or text…) from just about anywhere things are really starting to change.

Plugs:

Mets Police on twitter @metspolice.  Thanks if you are one of the 2391 (up from 700 in April!)  I miss the in-game hangouts and those will be back for 2012.

Mets Police on Facebook