Top 10 articles, stats, and editor's picks: November 2014 report

For the fourth month in a row, we've had over 400k page views each month on Opensource.com. We saw another steady month in November, which garnered 402,689 page views and 233,101 unique visits. We published 72 articles including 11 featured pieces during our Open Food Week.

Highlights

It was amazing to see that 63% (45 articles) of the content published was contributed from the open source community.

For the eleventh month in a row, the top article was "Top 5 open source project management tools in 2014," written by one of our community moderators. It continues to get steady search traffic and was the most visited page on the site with almost 40,000 page views.

Our community moderators contributed 19 articles this month (27% of our published content) as well of lots of great social media support and syndication efforts.

A Wired article: Can Open Source Help Solve Unemployment? mentions our article, What open source means to a young programmer.

Rankings

Our "What is open source?" page maintained the #1 position in organic search results and generated 19,265 page views, a 1,300 view increase and a new monthly record.

The "What is OpenStack" page hit another all-time record receiving 9,413 views (October 8,681). The search rank for the "OpenStack" on Google in steady at the #3 position in organic results.

Editor's pick 6

We had a few later bloomers that made this months pick six very interesting. I've chosen six articles that are must reads. If you haven't found these gems, save a few minutes to see what you've missed. Enjoy.

• This one is for beginners and kids. Community moderator Luis Ibanez provides a great overview of using Raspberry Pi and Coder by Google to learn HTML/CSS and more.
• With so much new technology coming out today, open source is leading the way. See how open source is accelerating the development of software with Gordon Haff.
• Worried about open source security? See why Gunnar Hellekson is calling 2014 the year of open source miracles.
• Although this post is written for the public sector, these 6 tips for adopting open source go beyond government agencies.
• Looking for a fast and flexible open source trip planner? Be sure to discover GraphHopper.
• Our Open Food Week was decilious. If you missed out on seconds, make sure to see how open source is changing our food.

Top 10 articles published in November 2014

1. Do I need OpenStack if I use Docker? - Nati Shalom | 6,312 (page views)
2. Microsoft gets on board with open source - Luis Ibanez (Community Moderator) | 5,931 (page views)
3. You don't know Javascript, but you should - Remy DeCausemaker (Community Moderator) | 5,550 (page views)
4. If you write code, this is your golden age - Remy DeCausemaker (Community Moderator) | 5,087 (page views)
5. 14 fabulous open source gifts for the holidays - Opensource.com (Red Hat) | 4,905 (page views)
6. Linux for lettuce - Lisa M. Hamilton | 3,904 (page views)
7. An open source ERP system built to self-implement - Rushabh Mehta | 3,729 (page views)
8. 8 new tips for getting things done with OpenStack - Jason Baker (Red Hat) | 3,710 (page views)
9. 5 open source projects making the world better you should know - Dave Neary (Red Hat) | 3,672 (page views)
10. Mapping the world with open source - Jason Baker (Red Hat) | 3,042 (page views)

Top 10 articles overall in November 2014

1. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2014 - Robin Muilwijk (Community Moderator) | 39,372 (page views)
2. Top 3 open source business intelligence and reporting tools - Robin Muilwijk (Community Moderator) | 10,471 (page views)
3. Top 5 open source customer relationship management tools - Scott Nesbitt (Community Moderator) | 7,824 (page views)
4. Do I need OpenStack if I use Docker? - Nati Shalom | 6,312 (page views)
5. Microsoft gets on board with open source - Luis Ibanez (Community Moderator) | 5,931 (page views)
6. Four Linux distros for kids - Aseem Sharma (Community Moderator) | 5,646 (page views)
7. You don't know Javascript, but you should - Remy DeCausemaker (Community Moderator) | 5,550 (page views)
8. If you write code, this is your golden age - Remy DeCausemaker (Community Moderator) | 5,087 (page views)
9. 14 fabulous open source gifts for the holidays - Opensource.com (Red Hat) | 4,905 (page views)
10. Linux for lettuce - Lisa M. Hamilton | 3,904 (page views)

Stats

• Opensource.com homepage: 26,067 page views (last month: 28,231 page views)
• What is open source? resource page: 19,265 page views (last month: 17,937 page views)
• What is OpenStack? resource page: 9,413 page views (last month: 8,681 page views)
• Articles published: 72

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