1. Same as last year, in 2013, in 2012, in 2011 and in 2010 we think this is a good moment to look back on the past year for U2start. 2014 was a great year for U2start with the release of version 7 of our website and of course with a new album and an upcoming tour. Our focus was to make U2start ready for what is up on the horizon and we are very ready!

    U2start per timeframe
    Most popular day to visit U2start: Wednesday
    Most busiest month: December (least: May)
    Visitors that only comes once: 33%
    Visitors that come back more than 200 times: 22%
    Returning visitors versus new visitors: 67% returning vs 33% new
    Users versus non-users in visitors: 54% users vs 46% non-users
    Visitors that visit with a mobile device: 20% (2% decrease)
    Visitors that visit with a tablet: 9%

    User statistics
    New registrations: 1,754 (just 2 less than 2013)
    Total users: 56,579 (forum posters: 3,950, show downloaders: 41,008)
    Average time on site per visitor: 5m28sec (users: 8m 52sec, non-users: 3m 22sec)
    Date with most new users: 2014-02-20
    Countries with most new users: United States, Brazil, Italy (Italy is new in this top 3)
    United States with most new users: California, Florida, New York (same as last year, although Florida has switched position with New York)
    Registered genders: Male (77%), Female (23%)
    Most popular translations chosen by users: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Farci, Turkish, Macedonian (in this order)


    u2start visitor breakdown, darker means more: you come from all over the world!


    u2start visits in 2014, labels: April, July, October, peak days in: April, September, December

    Browsers that visitors use
    1. Chrome (34%) (2013: 28%)
    2. Safari (24%)
    3. Firefox (19%)
    4. Internet Explorer (12%) (in order of high to low: v11, v9, v10, v8, v7, v6)
    5. Android browser (3%)

    Most popular referrers (where do visitors come from)
    1. Direct (favourite, URL)
    2. Google
    3. Twitter
    4. Facebook
    5. Bing
    (same top 5 as last year, Twitter switched position with Facebook)

    Most popular keywords in search engines to get here
    1. u2 lucifer's hands audio
    2. springsteen ade u2start
    3. u2 torrent
    (keywords like u2start and u2 start are omitted from this list)

    Forum in 2014
    New forum topics: 267
    Total forum posts: 32,789 (slight increase of 2000 posts)
    Most popular U2start liveshow: February 9: 1993 - Rotterdam

    Top forum posters
    1. LikeASong (4224) (third year in a row, averaging 11,5 post per day)
    2. Remy (1892)
    3. iTim (1771)
    4. patou2 (1614)
    5. RUMMY (1341)
    6. MoFoNYR15 (848)
    7. KieranU2 (822)
    8. BelgianBono (810)
    9. Buttons (764)
    10. dylbagz (691)
    11. Mr_Trek (659)
    12. Andrew_C (652)
    13. cesar_garza01 (651)
    14. EyesWithPrideB3 (640)
    15. RattleandHum1988 (630)

    Most popular new topics
    1. Innocence and Experience Tour - (Pre-)sales & Gene... (1838)
    2. Promo tour - all dates and discussions (1577)
    3. Songs of Innocence: general album thread (1228)

    Most downloaded sources
    1. 2014-10-15 - London (FM Cable Broadcast) (619)
    2. 2014-10-21 - Maidstone (Webcast) (590)
    3. 2014-10-21 - Milan (Webcast) (537)

    Users who downloaded the most audio sources
    1. Katelina (1371)
    2. Jeeeeee (1250)
    3. heavyd2007 (876)

    Most reviewed shows
    1. 1987-04-29 - Rosemont, Illinois (4)
    2. 2010-09-12 - Zurich, Switzerland (4)
    3. 2001-11-09 - Salt Lake City, Utah (3)

    Most reviews written
    1. CIPalaeo (65)
    2. cesar_garza01 (32)
    3. fleavox (30)

    Photos
    Total added photos in 2013: 880 (more than doubled from 2013)
    Totals: 9,545 photos, 13,4 GB of filesize and 22 million views!

    Users who uploaded the most photos
    1. Nanazoca (323)
    2. martahU2 (274)
    3. Remy (212)


    most viewed photo, added in 2014

    Most popular headlines
    1. Bass & Guitar(2526)
    2. 'Give and Take'(2485)
    3. 'I Wore these Shoes...'(2449)

    Torrent statistics
    Total number of torrents uploaded: 45 (doubled from 2013)
    Total number of torrents indexed: 202

    Most downloaded torrents
    1. 2014-03-02 - Los Angeles, California - Kodak Theatre (5666)
    2. 2014-02-17 - New York, New York - NBC Studios (4366)
    3. The Edge: The Break (Documentary & Interviews) (4033)

    Most popular featured content
    1. Timeline: A history of U2's health problems and accidents (2307 reads)
    2. Article: The origins of the Songs of Innocence (2104 reads)
    3. Slideshow: 50 shows in The Netherlands (1459 reads)

    Shows with most U2start members
    1. 2010-09-18 - Paris (251)
    2. 2010-09-22 - Brussels (180)
    3. 2010-10-08 - Rome (165)

    Most U2start members expected in 2015 at these shows
    1. 2015-09-09 - Amsterdam (47)
    2. 2015-09-08 - Amsterdam (40)
    3. 2015-10-13 - Antwerp (23)

    Misc. 2014 statistics
    Most popular site pages: Topic, Frontpage, Shows, Photos, Active topics
    Most popular mobile devices: Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy S III, Apple iPod (iPhone new number 1, was: iPad)
    Average loading time of a page: 2,50 seconds
    Number of quotes we have gathered in total: 712
    Number of 'did you know' facts in total: 248
    Number of tweets posted in 2014: 327
    Number of newsletters sent in 2014: 3
    Number of songs marked as favourite for a show in 2014: 101
    Number of entries added to 'You Too' in 2014: 1608
    Audio sources with a sample audio clip in total: 783 (more than 50%)
    Names that occur the most in audio recording credits: macphisto & JEMS (eternal gratitude!)
    You Too poll with the most votes in 2014: What is your rating of Invisible after a few listens? (778 votes)
    Number of files U2start programmers worked on/modified in 2014: 4889

    That's it! If you need any other number, please let us know. We'd be happy to share any number or list we can extract. Thank you all and let's hope U2015 will feature many more highlights and records.


  2. Great statistics as usual Remy Thanks for all the work! And thank you all for making this the best U2 community in the world year after year. Here's to an even greater U2015
  3. Always a pleasure this topic. The site continues to go from strength to strength.

    Now we just need to knock Sergio off his perch.
  4. very good information
  5. Less new members than in 2013? That's strange, isn't it?

    I should post more
  6. About the same, usually a new album doesn't attract as much new members as a tour will do. Expect quite an increase this year
  7. Thanks for these interesting statistics
  8. Nice statistics...
  9. These stats are always interesting to read. Like The Edge, I am also a man who takes sexual pleasure in the collection of data.
  10. Not with a new tour upcoming
  11. Nice to know!