T-Squared: The Six-Month Stats

Last week we celebrated our six-month birthday (it's not too late to send a card - or a gift). It seems like only yesterday, blah, blah, cliché, blah - but, actually, it does seem like only yesterday that the Texas Trib went live. More than 5.3 million page views since our debut on November 3, 2009. Our databases are responsible for just over a third of those views -- a big wow that validates our data-as-journalism strategy. To put that percentage in context, data is getting nearly three times the amount of traffic of our stories. And the trend line on page views in general is hockey-sticking: more than 1 million in March and more than 2 million in April."