Our countdowns of the top 12 athletes and events of 2008 appear to have been fairly successful. The number of page views on GoPrincetonTigers.com for each of the stories was very high, especially considering that late December is a slow traffic time.
Despite the fact that the releases were only up for two weeks, the countdown of the Top 12 athletes was the second most-viewed story on GoPrincetonTigers.com in the entire year of 2008, while the countdown of events was fifth. The most read release of the past year? The announcement of the football class of 2012.
The rest of the 10 most viewed stories for 2008 were the football story after the Princeton-Citadel game in third place, followed by the first day of the men's lacrosse trip to Spain and Ireland, the countdown of the Top 12 events, the women's soccer incoming class and fall schedule announcement, the preview of the men's hockey NCAA game against North Dakota, the announcement of the men's lacrosse Class of 2012, the football story after Jordan Culbreath ran for 276 yards against Dartmouth and the story of the first men's lacrosse game of the season.
As an aside, the most viewed bio of the year was that of freshman Jonathan Meyers. The most viewed bio of all-time on GoPrincetonTigers.com is that of Meagan Cowher, which TigerBlog has long believed was due to the fact that people from all over the country wanted to see if she had her father's chin.
Interestingly, of the top eight most viewed stories, only one was a postgame recap. This goes along with what TigerBlog has long suspected; namely, that readers aren't as interested in reading about events after the fact. This, TigerBlog also suspects, has a great deal to do with the demise of newspapers.
Anyway, happy new year to all.
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