All time high for BarentsObserver
BarentsObserver had 160,000 pageviews in December 2009, twice as much as the month before.
2009 was a good year for BarentsObserver. The numbers of readers increase from month to month with an all time peak in December. The single most popular article in 2009 was about the failed Russian Bulava missile launch visible over Northern Norway on December 9th. That article got more than 57,000 clicks.
Today, the BarentsObserver archive consists of 27,000 articles with news related to the Barents Region and the High North. BarentsObserver went online in the autumn 2002. The total numbers of pageviews since then have passed 23,6 million, including both the English and Russian pages.
BarentsObserver is published by the Norwegian Barents Secretariat and is today the only multi-language news-site covering Europe’s northernmost region.
The most numerous readers are actually living outside the Barents Region. Norwegian readers count for some 25 percent of the total followed by readers from Russia with some 20 percent. Number three on the readers’ origin list is the United States with some 15 percent and Finland with around five percent. The rest is mainly from other European nations and Canada.
Russian visitors are in average reading most articles when they visit BarentsObserver, with 3,3 articles per/visit.
Oslo is the city with most BarentsObserver readers, followed by Murmansk, Moscow and Helsinki.
