Happy New Year and thankyou to all our readers!

Here are a few statistics which sum up the past year on LDV:

384 authors have written a total of 3239 posts. (For more on how to write for us, click here.)

Readers have visited our site 1,473,760 times, making 3,140,977 pageviews.

Our busiest day was Friday 7th May, the day after the General Election. This is typical for political websites the day after an election, and a reminder to defer that lie-in until after you’ve updated your site with results and commentary. The surge in readers the day after Polling Day is often greater than the steady trickle who’ve been visiting a site during an election campaign.

The 5 most-read stories on LDV in 2010:

We write on a wide variety of topics here at LDV, but the most popular ones of the past year reflected the particular interest in the Coalition and elections.

1. What should the party do next? Have your say by 2pm on Saturday (396 comments) by Mark Pack on 7th May
2. Opinion: Richard Huzzey – “I resign” (225 comments) by Richard Huzzey on 9th December
3. Thirsk & Malton election delayed after candidate dies (17 comments) by Mark Pack on 24th April
4. Deal or no deal? Here’s what I think (300 comments) by Stephen Tall on 8th May
5. Election purdah period: what can and can’t be done? (1 comment) by Mark Pack on 8th March

The biggest sources of traffic to www.LibDemVoice.org (apart from readers visiting direct):

1. Google
2. Twitter. Follow @libdemvoice here.
3. Guido Fawkes
4. The Lib Dem Voice Daily email. Sign up here.
5. Lib Dem Blogs. For a daily roundup of all posts by Liberal Democrat bloggers click here.

The 5 top reader search returns to get to LDV in 2010:

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
These Google search terms overlap slightly with our most popular posts, but also show an interest in personalities:

1. purdah period
2. colin firth lib dem
3. thirsk and malton
4. luciana berger
5. nick clegg

5 most retweeted tweets from @libdemvoice:

The most retweeted tweet was not even a link to a post, but a quick bit of news that I sent from inside the Presidential election count.

1. Tim Farron has won the Liberal Democrats Presidential contest – on 13th November

Full results post here.

2. Andrew Stunell MP Writes: Your Chance to Influence Coalition’s Housing Policy http://ldv.org.uk/22165 – on 22nd November
3. Chris Huhne puts £60 million into offshore wind turbine manufacture http://ldv.org.uk/21770 – on 25th October
4. In Government for all the right reasons: the David Laws interview http://ldv.org.uk/22174 – on 23rd November
5. Michael Meacher faces legal action for repeating Phil Woolas’s claims http://ldv.org.uk/21992 – on 8th November

Finally, an update from the online campaigns beyond Lib Dem Voice, which are a vital part of the Party’s local work:

5 most active local parties with online petitions in 2010:

1. Kingston and Surbiton
2. Richmond Park
3. Esher and Walton
4. Hornsey and Wood Green
5. Chippenham

Thanks to all who helped make 2010 our site’s most successful year yet, and if you’d like to help keep Lib Dem Voice running in 2011, then (*rattles bucket*) please donate here.