Summit County Citizens Voice

Google News, Facebook and Twitter drive traffic

A snapshot of daily Summit Voice page views.

Summit Voice, independent online journalism in Colorado.

By Bob Berwyn

SUMMIT COUNTY —A new study suggesting that Greenland’s ice cap may not melt as quicky as anticipated quickly raced to the top of the most-viewed story list on the weekend, once again driven by Google News. Both the top stories illustrate an interesting trend (interesting if you’re an online journalism geek, anyway) of peak page views on the weekend, which is not in line with most data showing that web-browsing, especially on news sites, goes down on Saturday and Sunday.

Our second most-viewed story just posted this morning and picked up more than 1,500 page views thanks to a posting on Slashdot.org. Facebook played a bigger role than usual in the weekly count, as a story about wolves in Wyoming was posted and reposted on several Facebook pages. As always, click the headlines to read and share your favorites with the social media buttons at the end of each post.

• Climate: Greenland’s glaciers going, going … not so fast! 3,465 views
• Rogue waves, not tsunamis, move Aran Island rocks 929 views
• Drought means triage for endangered Colorado River fish 900 views
• Global warming: Plants respond faster than expected 886 views
• Arctic sea ice — It has to be the greenhouse gases 825 views
• Colorado: ‘Supermoon’ to light up the sky this weekend 755 views
• Colorado: Reactions vary on new roadless rule 536 views
• Colorado roadless rule details revealed 527 views

State and local

• Drought means triage for endangered Colorado River fish
• Colorado: Snowpack and runoff near record lows
• Colorado: New life for the Arkansas River
• Colorado: Climbing La Plata Peak
• Summit County: Sampling the Blue River
• Colorado: SOS youth prep for London Olympics trip
• Colorado: Reactions vary on new roadless rule

Environment & climate

• Environment: Oil from Deepwater Horizon spill causes serious developmental and sensory defects in fish
• Stream temps not warming as fast as atmosphere
• Global warming: Plants respond faster than expected
• Arctic sea ice — It has to be the greenhouse gases
• Climate: Bark beetles on the rise in Europe
• Researchers see changes in wandering albatross breeding
• Environment: Ovarian disease caused by exposure to common toxins can be passed through generations
• Morning photo: Moonshine
• Earthquakes destroy, but can also restore ecoysystems
• Energy: Wind farms have localized heating effect
• Wyoming plans to kill most wolves outside Yellowstone

Photography

• Morning photo: Best of April
• ‘Supermoon’ May 2012
• Morning photo: Flower power!
• Morning photo: half-light

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