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OS Perspective: Looking Back on 2009 Stuck

Posted on December 27, 2009 at 07:11 PM.

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As I did last year, I want to take this opportunity to look back on the year that was 2009 and see just how far OS has grown over the past 12 months.

Here are the interesting facts for 2009:

Over 5 million unique people visited OS in 2009 (up from 3 million in 2008)
These people generated 111 million page views (up from 100 million in 2008)
81% were from the USA, 6.5% from Canada, 2.3% from UK and 1.3% from Australia
Firefox took over from IE as the preferred browser for OS visitors in 2009 (42% Firefox, 39% IE, 9% Safari, 5% Chrome)
85% were on Windows (down from 91% in 2009) and 10% on Mac (up from 6.6% in 2008)
1280x800 took over as the preferred screen resolution (1024x768 was top in 2008)
41% of our traffic came direct from Google (up from 30% in 2008)
Over 60,000 new members registered at OS (up from 27,000 in 2008)
Over 98,000 new threads were started in the OS Forums (up from 55,000 in 2008)
Over 1.6 million new posts were posted in the OS Forums (up from 1 million in 2008)
The front page of OS was visited 3.8 million times in 2009 (up from 2.6 million in 2008)
1 million Reviews were read in 2009 (up from 520,000 in 2008)
Blogs were read 461,000 times in 2009 (up from 30,000 in 2008)

2009 also saw the launch of two very big new features here at OS. OS Instant Messenger (aka Meebo) was launched in April, with OS Fantasy Football kicking off in August.

A big personal thanks to everyone who contributed to the growth of OS over the past 12 months, in particular Steve, Chris, Chase, Chris, Trent all staff members, forum mods and everyone who has OS bookmarked as one of their daily websites. See you all in 2010.