Today we mark seven years since CatSynth first went online!

Here was the photo of Luna from that first post on July 19, 2006.

 

As we do every yeah, we celebrate this occasion with some stats.

2,278 posts.
12,218 comments.
538,771 visitors.
760 “cat-and-synth” posts.

Some overall stats for the past year:

Our top day for visitors was January 26, 2013. This was during NAMM.
The greatest number of visitors came from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany.
The top cities are San Francisco and New York. The top city outside the U.S. is London.
iOS and Android are among the top five platforms used by our visitors, surpassing Linux.

Our top commenters over the past year:

Tillie and Georgia	187
meowmeowmans	142
Gattina	70
Snowcatcher	57
Kitty	56
CatSynth	53
Beth F	45
Sukhmandir Kaur	42
AVCr8teur	42
Louis la Vache	40
Sue St Clair	39
KatzTales	37
Cafe au lait	34
Marilia	33
The Chair Speaks	29
Sweet Purrfections	27
Cats of wildcat woods	25
Marg	24
Team Tabby	23
Beth @ 990 Square	22
SandyCarlson	22

It’s great to see longtime readers continue to participate over the years, and always good to see newcomers as well.  Interestingly, the number of comments has gone down significantly over the past year.  My conjecture is that an increasing amount of the engagement around CatSynth has migrated to our Facebook page, and to Twitter, where we have lively communities of commenters.  In terms of Facebook, here are our most shared/liked posts over the past year:

The Green Wood, an opera by David Samas	64
CatSynth pic: Brian Eno Purina ad	44
Weekend Cat Blogging: Good News from PAWS	38
Pitta of the Mind, Red Thread, and Pet the Tiger at Turquoise Yantra Grotto	36
CatSynth pic: Gary Mew-man	33
CatSynth pic: Moog Little Phatty	31
Superb Owl	29
Outsound Music Summit: Fire and Energy	28
CatSynth pic: Chewie on Ensoniq EPS	26
CatSynth pic: Pinto and Moog Little Phatty	25
Jay Korber Benefit Performance, Berkeley Arts	25
The Fashion World of John Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, De Young Museum	23
CatSynth pic: Maggie Monotron	23
Military Cats	20
CatSynth pic: Schnuffi and Modular	19

It’s gratifying to see a mixture of “cat-and-synth” posts and art/music reviews in this list.  It supports my belief that mixing all the different topics together into one stream is worthwhile.  I particularly enjoy our many cat enthusiasts commenting on the music reviews or highway posts.

We hope to continue this project for a long time, and hope it continues to be a valuable and worthwhile resource.  And a big thank you to all our readers and fans!  You make this a joy to work on.