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

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           

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           

48. Manila 11,557           

49. Grand Rapids 11,523                  

50. Winnipeg 11,477

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

2. United Kingdom 427,287

3. Canada 355,954     

4. Australia 159,212

5. Germany 86,672

6. Netherlands 62,006

7. Finland 41,386

8. France 35,438

9. Sweden 33,550

10. New Zealand 33,340

11. Ireland 19,012      

12. Norway 18,784    

13. Japan 17,846

14. Philippines 17,743

15. Spain 14,923        

16. Singapore 14,644

17. Denmark 13,348

18. South Africa 12,658

19. Belgium 11,944

20. Austria 11,241

21. Mexico 10,203

22. South Korea 9,657

23. Switzerland 9,356

24. India 9,146

25. Italy 8,956

26. Malaysia 8,551

27. Brazil 8,166

28. Portugal 7,764

29. China 6,556

30. Israel 6,282

31. Hungary 5,823

32. Poland 5,474

33. Indonesia 5,247

34. (not set) 4,970

35. Romania 4,236

36. Latvia 3,942

37. Russia 3,713

38. Taiwan 3,590

39. Hong Kong 3,541

40. Czech Republic 2,816

41. Argentina 2,601

42. Estonia 2,526

43. Turkey 2,360

44. Greece 2,326

45. Puerto Rico 2,269

46. United Arab Emirates 2,224        

47. Croatia 1,872

48. Thailand 1,757

49. Saudi Arabia 1,690          

50. Egypt 1,674

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