From the Office of Letters and Light

Excerpts from the blog, OLL, with Lindsey writing and my comments in bold. Link is at http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/2068578620/the-great-nanowrimo-stats-party


Holy pants and shirts, Wrimos! What an event. I hope you enjoy reading this statsy analysis of NaNoWriMo 2010 as much as I enjoyed compiling it.

General Stats Round Up!

For NaNoWriMo main:

200,530 participants, up 20% from 2009’s total of 167,150.
We wrote a total of 2,872,682,109 words up 18% from 2009’s collective word count of 2,427,190,537.
This averaged out to 13,960 words per person.
We had 37,479 winners, up 16% from 2009’s total of 32,173.
This gave us an 18.6% win rate!
For NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program:

45,000 participants, up 29% from 2009’s total of 35,000.
We wrote a total of 262,303,074 words up 58% from 2009’s collective word count of 166,218,038.
This averaged out to 5,578 words per person.
We had 11,000 winners, up 58% from 2009’s total of 6,941.
This gave us an 24% win rate
Our Top 50 Wordiest NaNoWriMo Regions

1 Seattle

2 Los Angeles

3 Germany

4 London

5 New York City

6 Maryland

7 Holland & Belgium

8 Twin Cities

9 Chicago

10 Dallas/Ft. Worth

11 Portland

12 Toronto

13 Boston

14 Denver

15 Atlanta

16 East Bay

17 Austin

18 Northern Virginia

19 Melbourne

20 Vancouver

21 Houston

22 Finland

23 Salt Lake City

24 San Francisco

25 Sydney

26 Elsewhere in England

27 Phoenix

28 Detroit

29 Sacramento

30 Pittsburgh

31 France

32 District of Columbia

33 St. Louis

34 South Bay

35 New Hampshire

36 Philadelphia

37 Ottawa

38 Yorkshire

39 Raleigh-Durham

40 Kansas City

41 Indianapolis

42 Birmingham-West Midlands

43 Sweden

44 Edmonton

45 Philippines

46 Northeast New Jersey

47 San Diego

48 Cleveland

49 Columbus

50 Central New Jersey

Our Top 50 Wordiest NaNoWriMo Regions by Average Words Per Person i.e., the people who spent time writing----some of them over 100,000 words!!!

1 Sri Lanka

2 Lithuania

3 Elsewhere in Asia

4 Chadron, Nebraska

5 Vero Beach, Florida

6 Port Elizabeth, South Africa

7 Fulton, Missouri

8 Quebec, Quebec

9 Isle of Skye, Scotland

10 Elsewhere in Scotland

11 Putnam County, Florida

12 Thailand

13 Dickinson, North Dakota

14 Eureka Springs, Arkansas

15 Haifa, Israel

16 Tuolumne County, California

17 Lincoln County, Oregon

18 Sudbury, Ontario

19 Darlington and Tees, England

20 Elsewhere in Alabama

21 Russellville, Arkansas

22 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

23 Brantford-Norfolk, Ontario

24 Liverpool, England

25 Clemson/Anderson, South Carolina

26 Stillwater, Oklahoma

27 Switzerland

28 Elsewhere in Quebec

29 Moscow, Idaho

30 Southern Illinois

31 Elsewhere in Nebraska

32 Oswego, New York

33 Elsewhere in South Carolina

34 Austria

35 Busan, South Korea

36 Dundee, Scotland

37 France

38 Ashland, Ohio

39 Platteville, Wisconsin

40 Las Cruces, New Mexico

41 Cambridge, England

42 Snoqualmie Valley, Washington

43 Bahamas

44 Pretoria, South Africa

45 Gloucester & Cheltenham,England

46 Hungary

47 Lewisville, North Carolina

48 Bowling Green, Kentucky

49 Portsmouth, England

50 Northern Ireland

Our site traffic was also way off the charts this year.

In November, we had 4,970,589 visits, up 23% from 2009’s 4,014,203. We had 28,469,340 pageviews, up 11% from 2009’s 25,710,491.

Top 50 NaNoWriMo Cities (according to Google Analytics, based on number of November visits from these fine places)

City/Visits

1. London 126,290

2. New York 70,368

3. Seattle 55,528

4. Los Angeles 48,950

5. Sydney 43,442

6. Melbourne 42,257

7. Portland 42,049

8. San Francisco 35,278

9. Chicago 33,625

10. Denver 33,369

11. Minneapolis 33,108

12. Brisbane 26,179

13. Austin 25,080

14. Atlanta 24,312 HEY, a Southern city!!!

15. Toronto 23,659

16. Washington 22,557

17. Salt Lake City 21,999

18. Edmonton 21,979

19. Houston 19,994

20. Calgary 19,585

21. Tucson 17,604

22. Dallas 17,549

23. St Louis 17,350

24. Helsinki 16,739

25. Vancouver 16,515

26. (not set) 16,206

27. Albuquerque 15,357

28. Columbus 15,035

29. Phoenix 14,914

30. Indianapolis 14,866

31. Colorado Springs 14,828

32. Auckland 14,697

33. Sacramento 14,688

34. Dublin 14,666

35. Singapore 14,606

36. Ottawa 14,122

37. Adelaide 13,978

38. Raleigh 13,943

39. San Jose 13,794

40. Philadelphia 13,770

41. San Diego 13,519

42. Perth 13,410

43. Manchester 13,055

44. Glasgow 12,830

45. Madison 12,341

46. Pittsburgh 11,828

47. San Antonio 11,810 ------>>Good old San Antone!





Top 50 NaNoWriMo Countries (according to Google Analytics, based on number of November visits from these fine places)

Country/Visits

1. United States 3,394,953 -----THIS WAS WHERE I SPENT A LOT OF TIME: at PROCRASTINATION STATION!!!!

How fun was that?!?

So, if this was your first time, how did it go? If you’re a returning Wrimo, how did this NaNoWriMo feel different from previous years? Did the bigger crowds make for a more exciting event? Or just bigger crowds? Did you meet any interesting characters at write-ins? Did your region move up the list of wordiness? We’d love to hear your thoughts, impressions, and highlights of NaNo 2010!

Lindsey