Dezeen had its most successful year in 2018, with 25 million visitors to the site and more than 56 million total visits.
In our 11th successive year of growth, we saw our audience size increase across all our key metrics.
According to figures from Google Analytics, the number of unique visitors to the website increased by seven per cent, while the total number of visits grew by six per cent. We also saw page views to the site, often called clicks, reach 110 million for the first time.
March 2018 was the best-ever month for traffic on Dezeen too, with the total number of visits to the site just shy of 5.3 million.
Awards for "inspirational and aspirational" Dezeen
We also won several awards for the high quality of our journalism in 2018. Founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs was named Digital Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors, who described Dezeen as "inspirational and aspirational, understanding and doing fresh, original web journalism".
Dezeen was then named Digital Service of the Year at the International Building Press Awards, with editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs also picking up the Multi-Media Journalist of the Year gong.
We also picked up two two accolades at the Lovie Awards 2018, in recognition for our documentary film Elevation, which explores how drones will change our cities.
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