Devil’s Slide news leads to record day on Coastsider

I wanted to take a few minutes out from the craziness to thank everyone for coming to Coastsider during the Devil’s Slide outage.

Monday was the biggest day in Coastsider’s history. We delivered more than 4,000 pages to 1,200 unique users, and a bunch of people registered on the site or signed up for Coastsider Alerts.  This is above and beyond a recent spurt in our traffic. In typical week, we host about 2,500 different readers viewing 7,500 pages. This is no typical week.

We did our best to meet your expectations by being the first source with detailed photos of the damage, the first source anywhere to report that the Slide would not be open Monday afternoon, and the first site to post detailed video of the damage.  Compare our footage to the repurposed video that you get from the local TV news shows.

Now would be a good time to let your friends know about Coastsider.  You can send them our URL (https://coastsider.com), recommend that they subscribe to our Alerts , or use the "email" link at the top of every story to recommend a particular story, such as our exclusive video of the Slide.