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Posted on December 23, 2008 at 06:12 PM.

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With Christmas only one day away (it is New Year's eve already here in Australia) and the year quickly coming to an end, I wanted to take this opportunity to look back at 2008 from a personal and professional perspective. I also wanted to thank everyone who has visited OS over the past 12 months and share with you some of our successes.

Personally, 2008 has been a huge year for me. Not only did I drastically increase my involvement with OS, but I also left my job at EA after having spent 4 years there. My wife and I also relocated from Canada back to my original home country of Australia. 2008 was very exciting for me, in large part thanks to the success and growth of Operation Sports.

Here are some interesting stats:

Over 3 million unique people visited Operation Sports in 2008
They generated over 100 million page views
They spent an average of 9.52 minutes on the site each time they visited
82% were from the USA, 5.5% from Canada, 2.2% from UK and 1.2% from Australia
47% used Internet Explorer to browse, 43% Firefox and 5% Safari
91% were used Windows while 6.6% were on a Mac
1024x768 was the most popular screen resolution (30%) followed by 1280x800 (20%)
30% of our traffic came from Google
Top search words that led to OS were �operation sports� (9%), �nba 2k9� (4%) and maddenmania (2.5%)
Over 27,000 new members registered at Operation Sports
Over 55,000 new threads were posted in the Operation Sports Forums
Over 1 million new posts were posted in the Operation Sports Forums

I've just recently sent emails to all OS team members thanking them for their contribution to the site. So to Steve, Chris, Chase, Dave, Ben, HD, all of the writers, forum admins including Mill, Fishepa, TJ I'd like to thank you for your dedication and commitment to OS over the past 12 months. Some of you I have worked with closer than others, but as a whole it has been a great deal of fun growing OS with you.

2009 will be a big year for OS, there is no doubt about it. We're well positioned to expand even further based off of the ever increasing interest and quality of the new sports games scheduled for release. We're busy expanding our site's feature set to build off of the new generation of sports games that focus heavily on online interaction.

In closing, I wanted to thank everyone who made OS a regular destination in 2009. It has been a great experience being heavily involved with OS over the past 12 months, and I look forward to continuing this into 2009 and beyond.

Merry Christmas!

Comments

# 1 RAZRr1275 @ Dec 23

Nice stats. Merry Christmas to you and everyone else!

# 2 rspencer86 @ Dec 24

OS should be proud of what it's accomplished over the past 12 months, a lot of new members and the addition of some great features (arenas and podcasts!) have made it a very good year.

# 3 rudyjuly2 @ Dec 28

Those stats are pretty neat. I didn't even know you could determine some of that stuff. The fact that IE and FF are evenly split surprises me. I didn't realize that might MS had been hit that hard yet. The Arena is cool and I'm enjoying it.