Which Chart Reference Pages are the Most Popular?

The Data Visualisation Catalogue website was launched on December 26^th 2013 and has been running for 3 years now (from writing this post). Since then, the site has grown considerably, both in terms of traffic and content.

But what parts of the website have drawn in people the most? I thought this would be interesting to look into and share.

Using the data collected from Google Analytics and AddThis (from the site launch till the beginning of Feb 2017) I can find what chart reference pages have been shared the most and have the most page views.

Before seeing the results, you have to bare in mind that newer reference pages will have less views and shares then the older ones, for obvious reasons. Next year, it would be a good idea to get the data from the published date of the final chart reference page (Parallel Coordinates Plot on Jan 6 2017) to a year later. That way, I would be able to get a “fairer” assessment.

Anyway, here are the top 10 most viewed chart reference pages based on page views:

	1st – Bar Chart (38K page views) Page
	2nd – Box & Whisker Plot (35K page views) Page
	3rd – Timeline (32K page views) Page
	4th – Bubble Chart (31K page views) Page
	5th – Area Graph (28K page views) Page
	6th – Arc Diagram (27K page views) Page
	7th – Donut Chart (23K page views) Page
	8th – Choropleth Map (23K page views) Page
	9th – Histogram (22K page views) Page
	10th – Sankey Diagram (22K page views) Page

In terms of sharing on social media, these are the top 10 most shared chart reference pages:

	1st – Chord Diagram (28 shares) Page
	2nd – Choropleth Map (20 shares) Page
	3rd – Parallel Sets (19 shares) Page
	4th – Donut Chart & Stem and Leaf Plot (18 shares) Page 1, Page 2
	5th – Treemap (17 shares) Page
	6th – Dot Matrix Chart (16 shares) Page
	7th – Arc Diagram (15 shares) Page
	8th – Histogram (13 shares) Page
	9th – Radial Bar Chart (12 shares) Page
	10th – Word Cloud (11 shares) Page