As always, not unlike other media houses, The SA Jewish Report Online published the stories most read during the year. Today, we publish the full list of the 35 stories that our readers read most during 2016. The year turned out more one of issues than of individual stories – with eleven of the Top-35 most read stories on the ongoing saga of father-and-son fugitive lawyers Ronald and Darren Bobroff. Every one of the Top-35 include links to the original stories…
Other issues trailing the Bobroffs and that feature multiple times on the list, in order of frequency, were the arrest, extradition and trial of Rabbi Eliezer Berland; men refusing their wives Gets; women singing at Jewish communal events – the so-called Kol Isha matter; and the perennial favourite read – the Sunday Times’ Rich Lists from 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
As the annual publication of the SA Rich List indicates, a number of the stories on this list were not published during 2016. The list refers to those stories READ during 2016.
This anomaly occurs due to users searching or following links we may highlight which look back to previous years. As the website enjoys a very high level of search engine optimisation, often the reading of a story is the result of someone, somewhere, researching something on Google.
RIGHT: Jews on the Rich List – all four annual stories feature on users’ favourite reads of 2016
RIGHT: The 2016 Top-Reads series will be represented for the first time with a colour-coded specific branding of a collage of stories from the website during the year. Purple will represent SA Jewish stories or topics; Red for generic or World News stories or topics while Blue will be used for Israeli stories or topics.
Each of these will have the topic of the story in a Red Strip across it to make it easier for user identification.
MORE TO COME…
Watch the website for ongoing reads in the series which will include categories such as South Africa, Israel, World, All-Time Top-Reads as well as some of our favourite writes.
The information extracted is from Google Analytics and represents over 30,000 stories that have been posted in just over three years since the website started publishing (life-of-site),
JR Online will also include the statistics on the readership of the website, who they are, where they live, how many return, how often, how long they spend on the website and how many pages they access on an average visit?