U2start per timeframe
Most popular day to visit U2start: Monday
Most busiest month: September (least: December)
Visitors that only comes once: 48%
Visitors that visited U2start at least 30 days in the year: 36% of total visitors
Returning visitors versus new visitors: 56% returning vs 43% new
Users versus non-users in visitors: 50% users vs 50% non-users
Visitors that visit with a mobile device: 20% (same as last year)
Visitors that visit with a tablet: 7% (2% decrease)
visitor graph in 2015, with a huge spike on that day in May!User statistics
New registrations: 5,265 (3 times as many as in 2014)
Total users: 63,909 (forum posters: 4,425, show downloaders: 43,355)
Average time on site per visitor: 4m 27s (users: 7m 48s, non-users: 2m 51s)
Date with most new users: 2015-09-10
Countries with most new users: United States, France, Italy (France is new in this top 3)
United States with most new users: California, New York, Massachusetts (Massachusetts is new in this top 3)
Registered genders: Male (80%), Female (20%)
Most popular translations chosen by users: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Farci, Turkish and Macedonian (in this order)
U2start visitor breakdown, darker means more: you come from all over the world!Browsers that visitors use
1. Chrome (31%) (2014: 34%)
2. Safari (19%)
3. Firefox (12%)
4. Internet Explorer (9%)
5. Safari Mobile (2%)
Most popular referrers (where do visitors come from)
1. Direct (favourite, URL)
2. Google
3. Twitter
4. Facebook
5. Yahoo (new in the top 5, in favour of Bing)
Most popular keywords in search engines to get here
1. u2 torrent
2. u2 tour 2016
3. u2torrents
4. larry mullen jr
5. u2 forum
(keywords like u2start and u2 start are omitted from this list)
Forum in 2015
New forum topics: 520
Total forum posts: 112,782 (2014: 32,789)
Top forum posters
1. LikeASong (9023) (fourth year in a row, averaging almost 25 post per day)
2. Remy (7178)
3. cesar_garza01 (5690)
4. iTim (5615)
5. Welsh_Edge (4619)
6. Buttons (4480)
7. DutchU2Fan (3614)
8. patou2 (3014)
9. BigGiRL (2751)
10. Alvin (2487)
11. BelgianBono (2353)
12. thefly108 (2321)
13. treasure (2096)
14. cqleonardo (2089)
15. Ross1441 (1977)
Most popular new topics
1. U2ieTOUR hits New York - All discussions (6936)
2. "The Song Name" game (6005)
3. U2ieTour hits Stockholm - All discussions (3902)
Most downloaded sources
1. 2015-05-14 - Vancouver (Selected broadcast iHeartRadio) (2823)
2. 2015-05-14 - Vancouver (2290)
3. 2015-05-15 - Vancouver (1964)
4. 2015-09-14 - Turin (537)
5. 2015-07-02 - Chicago (My Kind Of Town) (1394)
Users who downloaded the most audio sources
1. Jokinha (1461)
2. Muad_zin (1214)
3. cabal (1162)
Most reviewed shows
1. 2015-05-14 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Rogers Arena (11)
2. 2015-10-18 - Cologne, Germany - Lanxess Arena (8)
3. 2015-07-23 - New York, New York - Madison Square Garden (8)
Most reviews written
1. cesar_garza01 (68)
2. CMIPalaeo (20)
3. fleavox (19)
(same top 3 as last year, although César and CMIPalaeo switched places)
Photos
Total added photos in 2014: 9,371 (in 2014: 880)
Totals: 15,985 photos, 36 GB worth of files (triple of what we had in 2014) and 36 million views!
Photographers who took & shared the most photos
1. Remy (687)
2. Cassieu2pics (554)
3. Peter Hutchins (373)
most viewed photo, added in 2015 (6106 views)Most popular headlines
1. A month on tour with U2 (1591)
2. 'Sons + Fathers' (1317)
3. U2's cancelled shows: the why & when's (1221)
Torrent statistics
Total number of torrents uploaded: 204 (four times as much as in 2014)
Total number of external torrents indexed: 537
Most downloaded torrents
1. 2015-05-14-Vancouver, British Columbia - Rogers Arena (JEMS Master) - (7449)
2. U2 i+eTOUR reports compilation DVD (4504)
3. 2015-05-15-Vancouver, British Columbia - Rogers Arena (JEMS Master)(4318)
Most popular featured content
1. Slideshow: Innocence and Experience captured in 15 spectacular photos (4053 reads)
2. Slideshow: The Evolution of U2's Stage Design (3001 reads)
3. Slideshow: U2's tour opening nights in perspective (2580 reads)
At which shows did we have the most U2start members?
1. 2015-09-09 - Amsterdam (153)
2. 2015-09-08 - Amsterdam (142)
3. 2015-09-13 - Amsterdam (102)
Other 2015 statistics
Most popular site pages: Catalogue, Shows, Active topics, Forums & Torrents
Most popular mobile devices: Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy S III
Average loading time of a page: 3,56 seconds
Number of quotes we have gathered in total: 774
Number of 'did you know' facts in total: 260
Number of tweets posted in 2015: 2283 (2014: 327)
Number of newsletters sent in 2015: 10
Number of songs marked as favourite for a show in 2015: 413
Number of times users added themselves to a show as attendee: 6065
Audio sources with a sample audio clip in total: 961 (more than 50%)
Names that occur the most in audio recording credits: BigGirl, bedoc & JEMS (eternal gratitude!)
You Too poll with the most votes in 2015: What is your favourite second-slot song this tour? (1136 votes)
Number of edits Remy & Chris made to the U2start codebase/files:
3276 files changes, 175308 lines of code added and 98106 lines of code deleted
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 U2016 will feature many more highlights and records.
, I will beat you this year Sergio 
