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Three years of Typos, Things That Look Like Ireland and Stolen Bikes Wednesday 17 July 13

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• A Brief History • Traffic • Comments • Apps • Future • Questions Wednesday 17 July 13

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• Software developer, mainly native mobile apps these days • Originally involved to ‘just’ set up the site (a single day of work he said) • Sucked in to help maintain the site/apps and write the occasional post • Do it out of the goodness of my soft heart And You Are...? Wednesday 17 July 13

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The Hamster In The Cage • WordPress with a scattering of plugins • Single server running Apache and MySQL • Varnish and CloudFlare provide caching Wednesday 17 July 13

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Headline Items • Covering from 29th of July 2012 to 16th of July 2012 • Visits up 31% (13m vs 9.8m) • Pageviews up 43% (31.4m vs 21.9m) • Unique visitors up 12% (2.9m vs 2.6m) Wednesday 17 July 13

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Where are your people from? 10% 1% 1% 5% 10% 73% Ireland UK USA Germany Australia ROW Wednesday 17 July 13

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How Do They Arrive 40% 27% 33% Direct Search Referral Wednesday 17 July 13

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Social Referrers • Primarily Facebook/Twitter • Google+ barely registers • Most shared story • 12,723 Facebook likes • 1,135 shares on Twitter • 36 +1s Wednesday 17 July 13

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What are people Searching for • Some variation on ‘Broadsheet.ie’ is 9 of the top 25 searches • We’re going to ignore them Wednesday 17 July 13

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Hello, Is Me You’re Looking For? • rosanna davison • katie talyor • electric picnic 2013 • niamh horan • property tax calculator • stubbs gazette • kate fitzgerald • tayto chocolate • johnny depp • mikey clancy • exchequer street boy • irish daily star Wednesday 17 July 13

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Variations On A Theme • rosanna davison • rosanna davison playboy • rosanna davison playboy europe • rosanna davison playboy 2012 • rosanna davison playboy spread Wednesday 17 July 13

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Top of the Posts Wednesday 17 July 13

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Meanwhile, At The Smithfield Horse Fair http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/04/02/meanwhile-at-the- smithfield-horse-fair/ Wednesday 17 July 13

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Daisy: The Cutest Kitten In The World http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/09/22/daisy-the-cutest-kitten- in-the-world/ Wednesday 17 July 13

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Nasty Dublin Bike Rope Trick http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/07/01/nasty-dublin-bike-hate/ Wednesday 17 July 13

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Opposite The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/06/27/opposite-the-dublin- rape-crisis-centre/ Wednesday 17 July 13

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Rosanna Davison’s Playboy Cover http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/09/12/rosanna-davisons- playboy-cover-nsfw/ Wednesday 17 July 13

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The Bottom Half Of The Internet 211,491 comments from 11,743 authors Wednesday 17 July 13

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Comments Per Author 0.1% 3% 7% 7% 35.9% 47% 1 2 - 10 11-25 25-100 100-1000 1000+ Wednesday 17 July 13

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What Got People Going? Wednesday 17 July 13

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Are You From Dublin? http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/09/21/are-you-from-dublin/ 211 comments Wednesday 17 July 13

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Are The Irish Anti- Semitic? http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/11/24/are-the-irish-anti- semitic/ 218 comments Wednesday 17 July 13

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Give Them Enough Grope http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/07/11/give-them-enough- grope/ 255 comments Wednesday 17 July 13

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The Other Side Of Parasite http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/04/18/a-sponger-writes/ 306 comments Wednesday 17 July 13

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Who Is In The Right? http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/05/17/who-is-in-the-right/ 318 comments Wednesday 17 July 13

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http://www.somethingofthatilk.com/index.php?id=400 The Browser Wars Wednesday 17 July 13

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The Browser Wars 3% 4% 5% 16% 16% 19% 37% Chrome Firefox IE Safari Safari (in-app) Android Everything Else Wednesday 17 July 13

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The Apps • iPhone 2.0 app released March 2013 • Windows Mobile released April 2013 • Android 2.0 app released in June 2013 Wednesday 17 July 13

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Downloads iPhone 9,087 Android 1,882 Windows Mobile 1,200 Wednesday 17 July 13

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App Usage • 5.5m screenviews (12.4m pageviews in same period) • 14,184 active users • 86% Irish users • ~ half the time spent in app compared to site at 2:52 average session length Wednesday 17 July 13

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Devices Top Android App Devices • Samsung Galaxy SIII • Samsung Galaxy SIV • HTC One • Samsung Galaxy SII • Nexus 4 Top Android Web Devices • Samsung Galaxy SIII • Samsung Galaxy SII • Samsung Galaxy S • Google Nexus 7 • SonyEricsson Xperia Arc Wednesday 17 July 13

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Code Available • iPhone: https://github.com/kmonaghan/ KMWordPress • Android: https://github.com/kmonaghan/ Broadsheet.ie-Android • MIT License (i.e. you’re free to use it, credit me and don’t blame me if it sets anything on fire) Wednesday 17 July 13

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The Future • Keep going as long as people are reading • From a technical prospective • Fresher look for the site • iPad app • updates for the iPhone/Android apps Wednesday 17 July 13

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• We love your submissions • broadsheet@broadsheet.ie • @broadsheet_ie • http://facebook.com/broadsheet.ie Don’t Forget Wednesday 17 July 13

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FAQ • Why do posts disappear? • Not funny/legal issue/wrong end of the stick • Can you tell us about [some specific legal issue] • Nope - I either don’t know enough to comment properly or can’t as part of the resolution • Why do apps over a responsive website? • I’m doing this for free so there’s limited time to spend on it. I prioritize things I like and will benefit from personally first (i.e. apps) and pick away at the things I don’t (HTML/CSS/JS) Wednesday 17 July 13

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FAQ • Don’t you just get everything from Reddit? • No • How do I get an avatar? • Goto Gravatar.com and sign up with the email address you use to post • Why was my comment held for moderation? • This is an automatic process. 2 links, first time using an email address, being a sweary mary, talking about prescription drugs are the usual reasons Wednesday 17 July 13

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FAQ • Aren’t the Apps just RSS readers? • No, no they’re not. • How many buttons are open on that shirt? • Just two. Not four. Wednesday 17 July 13

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@karlmonaghan http://karlmonaghan.com http://github.com/kmonaghan Wednesday 17 July 13