THE ATTIC INDEX -- 2022
Number of weekly issues since January 20, 2017 — 252
Number of articles currently available in The Attic — 196
Average length of an Attic article — 800 words
Largest sections in The Attic — Creatives — 32 articles; Heroes & She-roes, 30 articles
Number of American Lists — 53
Number of reader comments — 475
Articles in 2021 that drew the most comments — “The Mystery Woman with the Camera Eye,” “Philadelphia Burning — An Abolitionist Wedding,” and “Master of Pace and Rhyme” — 5 each
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 in 2019 — 51,333
Number of visitors 2020 — 104,895
Number of visitors in 2021 — 88,469 (some of you just aren’t sharing)
Most crowded month — January 2021 — 13,321 visitors
Total number of visitors — 286,418
Number of subscribers to weekly newsletter — 2,189
Number of social media followers — 3,597
Number of U.S. states visited for American Places — 21
Number of U.S. states where The Attic has been read — 50
Rank of Massachusetts, California, 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, the U.K., Canada, and the Philippines in readership — 1, 2, 3, 4
Number of visitors from Pakistan — 1,715
Number of visitors from Nigeria — 1,339
Number of visitors from Cameroon — 74
Most Popular Section — Creatives (7 articles in the top 20)
Number of articles with more 1,000 readers — 24
Most Read Articles from 2021
— “America’s Favorite Footpath” — 1,074
— “Good Mornin’, America” — 731
— “Walkin’ NYC — Every Last Inch” — 598
Most popular device used to read The Attic — Mobile phone — 70%
Original slogan of The Attic — “Know Your Country!”
How long The Attic will continue — Until we have a kinder, cooler America.
