NaNoWriMo’s Gasp-Inducing 2011 Stats!
The end-of-event stats blog post has become one of my favorite NaNoWriMo traditions (and I derive great pleasure from looking at these stats posts from years past, too…). I hope you enjoy devouring this year’s numbers as much as I enjoyed compiling them!
General Stats Round Up!
For NaNoWriMo main:
- 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!
For NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program:
- 81,040 participants, up 19% from 2010’s total of 68,710.
- We wrote a total of 368,143,078 words up 40% from 2010’s collective word count of 262,303,074.
- This averaged out to 7,199 words per person.
- We had 16,334 winners, giving us a never-before-precedented 32% 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)
- New York 77,947
- London 62,286
- Seattle 55,205
- Toronto 46,413
- Sydney 46,390
- Los Angeles 45,806
- Chicago 42,720
- Melbourne 40,588
- Portland 38,898
- Denver 37,972
- San Francisco 36,808
- Minneapolis 28,521
- Austin 28,095
- Houston 25,863
- Washington 25,812
- Brisbane 23,033
- Calgary 22,294
- Edmonton 21,618
- Ottawa 21,583
- San Diego 19,815
- Helsinki 19,793
- (not set) 19,435
- Phoenix 18,556
- Salt Lake City 18,347
- Vancouver 18,082
- Boston 17,850
- Philadelphia 17,664
- Columbus 17,558
- Tucson 17,551
- Kensington 17,262
- Ballinger 16,159
- Dublin 16,022
- Dallas 15,761
- Albuquerque 15,069
- Perth 14,949
- St Louis 14,910
- Auckland 14,873
- Edinburgh 14,575
- Montreal 14,260
- Singapore 13,993
- Colorado Springs 13,933
- Indianapolis 13,680
- Manchester 13,549
- Adelaide 13,477
- Sacramento 13,256
- San Antonio 13,170
- Atlanta 13,065
- Grand Rapids 12,939
- San Jose 12,925
- Madison 12,650
Top 50 NaNoWriMo Countries (according to Google Analytics, based on number of November visits from these fine places)
- United States 3,605,003
- United Kingdom 508,260
- Canada 385,383
- Australia 160,936
- Germany 99,752
- Netherlands 66,174
- Finland 51,164
- France 44,186
- Sweden 41,244
- New Zealand 32,109
- Norway 21,368
- Ireland 21,365
- Philippines 20,333
- Spain 18,887
- Denmark 15,888
- Japan 15,859
- Singapore 14,007
- South Africa 13,861
- Austria 13,436
- India 12,828
- Belgium 12,494
- Mexico 11,762
- (not set) 11,483
- Brazil 11,170
- Italy 10,820
- Portugal 10,261
- Poland 9,711
- South Korea 9,685
- Switzerland 8,956
- Indonesia 6,918
- Malaysia 6,618
- Israel 6,014
- Hungary 5,945
- Latvia 5,303
- China 4,665
- Romania 4,454
- Greece 4,262
- Russia 3,943
- Hong Kong 3,799
- Croatia 3,135
- Argentina 3,067
- United Arab Emirates 3,021
- Puerto Rico 2,949
- Thailand 2,719
- Estonia 2,655
- Taiwan 2,457
- Turkey 2,089
- Ukraine 1,974
- Czech Republic 1,914
- 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.
If this was your first NaNoWriMo, how did it go? If you’re a returning Wrimo, how did this NaNoWriMo feel different from previous years? Did the faster site make it easier to get where you needed to go? Did you meet any interesting characters at write-ins? We’d love to hear your thoughts, impressions, and highlights of NaNo 2011!
And please include your site username in your comment; we’re giving away a spot in Lani Diane Rich’s StoryWonk Revision Class! (We thought that was the perfect way to kick off the season of novel revision that lies ahead.) We’ll announce the randomly selected giveaway winner on December 20.
– Lindsey
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