Here we are, 39 million page views on Autocade, as the stats’ counter ticked over to 11,361,125 earlier today (which we add to the previous installation’s 27,647,011).
It’s two months, 16 days since we were at 38 million, and as July and August were leap months, that’s 78 days. Last time it was 50 days.
We managed the milestone last time despite having fewer additions to the site: 24 models were added then, whereas 49 were added since my last post on this subject.
Admittedly, there were more Chinese SUVs and MPVs among that latest 49, none of which set the heart racing. We also added a bunch of Mercurys recently, and I doubt there’s much interest in a defunct marque. In so many cases, I feel we’re filling in gaps now, of niche vehicles. Lots of sporting models are to be added—plenty of exotica from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Monteverdi, Iso Rivolta and the like—but sometimes I feel we need to cover as much of the mass market as possible.
With 5,108 models on the site, the latest is the unexciting first-generation BMW X3.
It’s a bit of a worry to see the page views tick over more slowly.
Though hopefully with fewer disinformation posts going up about me—how interesting, this happened after I put this on Semrush’s Reddit—I can devote more time to the websites again.
The leaderboard has changed a little, but not much: the patterns are settling in now that we’ve had this new installation for a couple of years. Previous positions from the last post are in parentheses.
Ford Taunus 80 (1) 15,750
Opel Astra J (2) 11,540
Daewoo Winstorm (3) 11,214
Ford Fiesta Mk VII (4) 10,677
Renault Mégane II (6) 10,566
IKCO Samand (7) 10,367
Renault Mégane III (5) 10,353
Peugeot 206+, 207 (8) 10,251
Daewoo Lacetti (J300) (10) 10,250
Rover SD1 (11) 9,874
If little interesting happens on the leaderboard going forward, I might drop this from the next update, since traditionally I didn’t talk about it. It was only interesting when you saw the models jostle for positions, likely based on who did better in the search engines. Though that never really explained the Iranian surge last year (when the IKCO Samand and other Iranian cars shot up the table in a very short space of time).
More for the numerophiles:
March 2008: launch
April 2011: 1,000,000 (three years for first million)
March 2012: 2,000,000 (11 months for second million)
May 2013: 3,000,000 (14 months for third million)
January 2014: 4,000,000 (eight months for fourth million)
September 2014: 5,000,000 (eight months for fifth million)
May 2015: 6,000,000 (eight months for sixth million)
October 2015: 7,000,000 (five months for seventh million)
March 2016: 8,000,000 (five months for eighth million)
August 2016: 9,000,000 (five months for ninth million)
February 2017: 10,000,000 (six months for 10th million)
June 2017: 11,000,000 (four months for 11th million)
January 2018: 12,000,000 (seven months for 12th million)
May 2018: 13,000,000 (four months for 13th million)
September 2018: 14,000,000 (four months for 14th million)
February 2019: 15,000,000 (five months for 15th million)
June 2019: 16,000,000 (four months for 16th million)
October 2019: 17,000,000 (four months for 17th million)
December 2019: 18,000,000 (just under three months for 18th million)
April 2020: 19,000,000 (just over three months for 19th million)
July 2020: 20,000,000 (just over three-and-a-half months for 20th million)
October 2020: 21,000,000 (three months for 21st million)
January 2021: 22,000,000 (three months for 22nd million)
April 2021: 23,000,000 (three months for 23rd million)
June 2021: 24,000,000 (two months for 24th million)
August 2021: 25,000,000 (two months for 25th million)
October 2021: 26,000,000 (two months for 26th million)
January 2022: 27,000,000 (three months for 27th million)
April 2022: 28,000,000 (three months for 28th million)
August 2022: 29,000,000 (four months for 29th million)
December 2022: 30,000,000 (three months, 10 days for 30th million)
April 2023: 31,000,000 (four months for 31st million)
August 2023: 32,000,000 (four months for 32nd million)
October 2023: 33,000,000 (two months for 33rd million)
December 2023: 34,000,000 (two months for 34th million)
February 2024: 35,000,000 (one month, 10 days for 35th million)
March 2024: 36,000,000 (two months for 36th million)
May 2024: 37,000,000 (two months for 37th million)
July 2024: 38,000,000 (two months for 38th million)
September 2024: 39,000,000 (two months for 39th million)
At this rate, I’ll update you in December, but hopefully sooner. I’d hate to lose any more momentum on the site.
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