2011 NaNoWriMo Stats

These are courtesy of the NaNo blog at http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/13851021182, but partially recited here because I had mentioned wanting these numbers in an earlier posting of my own.  Here's the pertinent scoop: 

General Stats Round Up!

For NaNoWriMo main [does not include Young Writers Program]:

• 256,618 participants, up roughly 28% from 2010’s total of 200,530 writers.
• We wrote a total of  3,074,068,446 words, up 7% from 2010’s collective word count of 2,872,682,109.
• This averaged out to 11,979 words per person!
• We had 36,774 winners, giving us a 14% win rate!

Our site traffic was way off the charts this year, as well. In November, we had 5,384,040 visits, up 12% from 2010’s 4,796,947. We had 42,915,395 pageviews, up 58% from 2010’s 27,215,323.

Top 50 NaNoWriMo Cities (according to Google Analytics, based on number of November visits from these fine places)

1. New York 77,947
2. London 62,286
3. Seattle 55,205
4. Toronto 46,413
5. Sydney 46,390 
6. Los Angeles 45,806
7. Chicago 42,720
8. Melbourne 40,588
9. Portland 38,898
10. Denver 37,972
11. San Francisco 36,808
12. Minneapolis 28,521
13. Austin 28,095
14. Houston 25,863
15. Washington 25,812
16. Brisbane 23,033
17. Calgary 22,294
18. Edmonton 21,618
19. Ottawa 21,583
20. San Diego 19,815
21. Helsinki 19,793
22. (not set) 19,435
23. Phoenix 18,556
24. Salt Lake City 18,347
25. Vancouver 18,082
26. Boston 17,850
27. Philedelphia 17,664
28. Columbus 17,558 
29. Tucson 17,551
30. Kensington 17,262
31. Ballinger 16,159
32. Dublin 16,022
33. Dallas 15,761 
34. Albuquerque 15,069
35. Perth 14,949 
36. St Louis 14,910
37. Auckland 14,873
38. Edinburgh 14,575 
39. Montreal 14,260
40. Singapore 13,993
41. Colorado Springs 13,933
42. Indianapolis 13,680 
43. Manchester 13,549
44. Adelaide 13,477
45. Sacramento 13,256
46. San Antonio 13,170
47. Atlanta 13,065
48. Grand Rapids 12,939
49. San Jose 12,925
50. Madison 12,650

Top 50 NaNoWriMo Countries (according to Google Analytics, based on number of November visits from these fine places)

1. United States 3,605,003 
2. United Kingdom 508,260 
3. Canada 385,383      
4. Australia 160,936 
5. Germany 99,752 
6. Netherlands 66,174
7. Finland 51,164
8. France 44,186
9. Sweden 41,244
10. New Zealand 32,109
11. Norway 21,368      
    
12. Ireland 21,365    
    
13. Philippines 20,333
    
14. Spain 18,887
    
15. Denmark 15,888        
    
16. Japan 15,859
    
17. Singapore 14,007
    
18. South Africa 13,861
    
19. Austria 13,436
    
20. India 12,828
    
21. Belgium 12,494
    
22. Mexico 11,762
    
23. (not set) 11,483
    
24. Brazil 11,170
    
25. Italy 10,820
    
26. Portugal 10,261
    
27. Poland 9,711
    
28. South Korea 9,685
    
29. Switzerland 8,956
    
30. Indonesia 6,918
    
31. Malaysia 6,618
    
32. Israel 6,014
    
33. Hungary 5,945
    
34. Latvia 5,303
    
35. China 4,665
    
36. Romania 4,454
    
37. Greece 4,262
    
38. Russia 3,943
    
39. Hong Kong 3,799
    
40. Croatia 3,135
    
41. Argentina 3,067
    
42. United Arab Emirates 3,021
    
43. Puerto Rico 2,949
    
44. Thailand 2,719
    
45. Estonia 2,655
    
46. Taiwan 2,457        
    
47. Turkey 2,089
    
48. Ukraine 1,974
    
49. Czech Republic 1,914          
    
50. Malta 1,850

How fun was that?!? We’ll be adding top wordiest regions by total word count and by average words written per Wrimo, too.

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I look forward to seeing the wordiest regions stats and will report them here when I know.

NaNo is a force. A power.  A blessing.  And lives on past November each year.