Start
of a new year? That means it's time for the annual count of the
pageviews of articles created through the Australian Paralympic history
project in 2018, courtesy of Ross Mallett.
And it was a new record for a non-summer Games year - 1,971,930
pageviews! That's an average of 5,402 for every day of 2018.
Why the record? The winter Games in March bumped it up a bit, but more important appear to have been the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast and the profiles of two Paralympians in particular - Kurt Fearnley and Dylan Trillan Alcott. Kurt carried the flag for Australia in the closing ceremony of the Comm Games and was subsequently named as the NSW Australian of the Year for 2019 and Dylan became even more of a superstar at the Australian Open in January and then through his media roles and by seeming to appear in every ANZ Bank ad for the year.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who contributed to the project in 2018 - you are amazing people and you make this a wonderful project.
For the first time in a few years, classification articles didn't dominate the top 10, although they did make up half of the top 30 articles. Once again, this illustrates the need to do some serious work on those articles and the importance of a project through the International Paralympic Committee.
Here are the figures, separated out into the top 15 articles of people, and then the top 15 about other topics:
Why the record? The winter Games in March bumped it up a bit, but more important appear to have been the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast and the profiles of two Paralympians in particular - Kurt Fearnley and Dylan Trillan Alcott. Kurt carried the flag for Australia in the closing ceremony of the Comm Games and was subsequently named as the NSW Australian of the Year for 2019 and Dylan became even more of a superstar at the Australian Open in January and then through his media roles and by seeming to appear in every ANZ Bank ad for the year.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who contributed to the project in 2018 - you are amazing people and you make this a wonderful project.
For the first time in a few years, classification articles didn't dominate the top 10, although they did make up half of the top 30 articles. Once again, this illustrates the need to do some serious work on those articles and the importance of a project through the International Paralympic Committee.
Here are the figures, separated out into the top 15 articles of people, and then the top 15 about other topics:
People
Dylan
Alcott 182,838
Kurt
Fearnley 125,933
Madison
de Rozario 44,716
Isis
Holt 37,824
Jan
Cameron (coach) 35,185
Ashley
Adams 30,387
Ellie
Cole 25,627
Timothy
Disken 22,654
Damien
Thomlinson 22,049
Lakeisha
Patterson 18,928
Evan
O'Hanlon 17,331
Heath
Davidson 16,145
Katie
Hill 14,087
Kelly
Cartwright 12,390
Matt
Levy 11,680
Total pageviews people 617,774
Other
articles
T38
(classification) 101,506
T35
(classification) 36,828
Disability
sport classification 23,685
Para-alpine
skiing 21,503
Para-swimming
classification 20,055
T44
(classification) 19,974
S9
(classification) 19,312
Para-athletics
classification 15,926
S10
(classification) 13,308
T54
(classification) 12,323
S7
(classification) 12,290
S8
(classification) 11,857
BC2
(classification) 11,777
S14
(classification) 11,291
Total pageviews other 331,635
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