ATTIC INDEX -- 2024
THE ATTIC INDEX — 2024
Number of weekly issues since January 20, 2017 — 412
Number of articles currently available in The Attic — 341
Average length of an Attic article — 850 words
Largest sections in The Attic — Heroes & Sheroes — 58 articles; Book-ish, 54 articles
Number of American Lists — 66
Number of visitors on The Attic’s first weekend (Jan. 20-22, 2017) — 39
Number of visitors in The Attic’s first month — 399
Number of visitors in 2017 — 4,596
Number of visitors in 2018 — 19,355
Number of visitors 2020 — 104,895
Number of visitors in 2024 — 88,139 (some of you need to share more articles)
Total number of visitors — 554,143
Most crowded month in 2024 — April — 9,211 visitors
Number of subscribers to weekly newsletter — 3,003
Number of U.S. states visited for American Places — 21
Number of U.S. states where The Attic has been read — 50
Rank of California, Massachusetts, and New York in readership — 1, 2, 3
Number of countries where The Attic has been read — 99
After the U.S., rank of India, Canada, the U.K., and the Philippines in readership — 1, 2, 3, 4
Percentage of Attic visitors living outside the US — 36 percent
Number of visitors from Australia — 5,445
Number of visitors from Nigeria — 3,125
Number of visitors from Iran — 272
Most Popular Articles from 2024:
“The Poet and Her Wild Geese” (Mary Oliver) — 3,049
Hemingway’s Magical Memoir — 549
“The Hysterical Historian” (Sarah Vowell) — 572
Most PopularArticles of All-time:
“A Poem and Its Parodies” — 25,335
“Pat Paulsen for President!” — 21,187
“If You Can Read This. . .” — 14,552
Number of articles with more 1,000 readers — 90
Most popular device used to read The Attic — Mobile phone — 59 percent
Original slogan of The Attic — “Know Your Country!”
How long The Attic will continue — Until we have a kinder, cooler America. (Stay tuned!)
