After posting Backspin's top 5 posts, it's time to check Google Analytics and HonestReporting's top content for the year.
1. UN Hypocrisy
This video about the UN Human Rights Council's embrace of the Goldstone report had more than 108,000 views, making it by far HonestReporting's most widely-seen content.
That's tremendous traffic for our web site, but the stat is bittersweet. Had we instead hosted the video on our YouTube channel, we would've lost all that web traffic to YouTube, but it probably would've gone viral.
This was part of a subscription drive, so attracting clicks wasn't the only consideration on where to host the video. In hindsight, we should've put this video on YouTube. Readers would've been able to more readily spread the word since it's so easy to post YouTube videos on Facebook, blogs, etc.
2. The Photo That Started It All
To our surprise, constant traffic in small numbers throughout the year added up to make the story of Tuvia Grossman and a botched photo-caption our highest ranking text material.
It's one of our oldest pages; StumbleUpon accounted for 40 percent of this year's clicks. Whoda thought?
Tuvia's now 29; last we heard, he made aliyah, got married, and is now a corporate lawyer in Tel Aviv.
3. Dishonest Reporter Award 2009
Only published a week ago, the annual awards are always popular. Interested bloggers and improvements in our email format boosted the awards.
4. The Big Lies
After a very successful launch during the Gaza war, this interactive feature looking at the decade's biggest Mideast media manipulations is another example of the cumulative power of small amounts of daily web traffic.
5. Moderate or Hardline?
Spotlighting the MSM's descriptions of Bibi and Abbas as "hardline" and "moderate," I think this video, like "UN Hypocrisy," should've been hosted on YouTube too.
