Crime & Safety

Top Five Topics of 2011 on JP Patch

You'll never guess what the biggest topic was in 2011, as judged by page views here on JP Patch.

2011 was a big news year for our neighborhood. I took a look at the 50 most-viewed stories on JP Patch. When several stories were about the same topic, I combined them.

It will surprise no reader of JP Patch to learn that Whole Foods' arrival was far away the leading topic.

Topic % of top 50 stories' page views 1 Whole Foods Comes to JP (18 stories) 33 percent 2 Amber DeVoe Goes Missing (six stories) 19 percent 3 7 percent 4 Kenny Soto Stabbed to Death at 7-Eleven (three stories)
6 percent 5 Hurricane Irene (three stories) 5 percent

The methodology here was I took a list of the top 50 stories by page views and combined the page views for stories on the same topic. The percentage you see in the right-hand column is the percentage of total page views among the top 50 stories. Each time a user visits a given Web page, a page view is generated.

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