First off a very belated happy new year to everyone out there!

I hope to get to have a beer with as many of you as possible during 2013, on which note if anyone hasn't seen the plans for a meet in Leicester on March 22nd then they should check out this thread. To anyone who hasn't been to a PG meet before it is well worth considering, there are likely to be around 20 of us and we'll spend the afternoon (usually midday-ish till about 7pm) going round 8-10 pubs. There is clearly no obligation to drink in all of them, I'm usually the biggest lightweight and will stick to halves with the odd coke at some pubs. So if you think you might fancy it do come along, we are a friendly bunch.

Anyway following on from the 2011 stats round up I've been thrashing away at my calculator to add the 2012 stats to the lists. And here they are....

Reviews written
2012 8672
2011 11978
2010 17116
2009 5454
2008 3942
2007 2887
2006 1089
2005 266
2004 625

Photos uploaded
2012 36922
2011 46474
2010 40133
2009 55801
2008 15040
2007 9923
2006 4308
2005 443
2004 565

Pubs suggested
2012 3305
2011 3859
2010 4550
2009 3344
2008 8404

Map points corrected
2012 8251
2011 8260
2010 5916
2009 4267
2008 2665

Links submitted
2012 1424
2011 3799
2010 5861
2009 3643
2008 1960
2007 802
2006 168

Pubs marked as open
2012 411
2011 419
2010 270

Pubs marked as closed
2012 1905
2011 2343
2010 1627

Area corrections suggested
2012 6054
2011 38119

Users joined
2012 1252
2011 2821
2010 3991
2009 1450
2008 1573
2007 1000
2006 1150
2005 1692
2004 2720


The 8,672 reviews were of 7,162 different pubs and written by 691 different reviewers. As quite a few people were on a mission to try new pubs it is interesting to see that 2,831 pubs that were previously unreviewed got their first review in 2012.

The 36,922 photos were of 15,734 different pub and taken by 219 different photographers.

There are 65,947 pubs on the site of which 53,554 are marked as open. Of those open pubs 23,385 (43.7%) have at least one review and 40,138 (74.9%) have at least one photo.

During the year there were a total of 2.1 million visits to the site, up a bit from the 1.9 million in 2011. To put that into context there are an average of around 5,750 visits to the site every day.