THE ATTIC INDEX -- 2023
Number of weekly issues since January 20, 2017 — 304
Number of articles currently available in The Attic — 286
Average length of an Attic article — 850 words
Largest sections in The Attic — BOOK-ISH and HEROES & SHE-ROES — 45 articles each
Number of American Lists — 62
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 2022 — 87,608
Number of visitors in 2023 — 92,631
Most crowded month of 2023 — April — 12,469 visitors
Total number of visitors — 420,778
Number of subscribers to weekly newsletter — 2,700
Number of social media followers — 3,398
Number of U.S. states visited for American Places — 19
Number of U.S. states where The Attic is read — 50
Rank of Massachusetts, California, and New York in readership — 1, 2, 3
Attic readership from outside the U.S. — 39.4 percent
Number of countries where The Attic is 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 Kenya — 990
Number of visitors from Taiwan — 695
Number of visitors from Argentina — 648
Most Popular Section — BOOK-ISH and HEROES AND SHEROES (5 articles each in the top 20)
Number of articles with more 1,000 readers — 80
Most Read Articles from 2023:
— “Secretariat is All Alone!” — 946 views
— “The Cathedral of Baseball” — 625 views
— “The Wisdom of Mr. Natural” — 604 views
Most popular device used to read The Attic — Mobile phone — 57 percent
Original slogan of The Attic — “Know Your Country!”
How long The Attic will continue — Until we have a kinder, cooler America, dammit!
