(Image: Monthly AO3 traffic for 2020 and 2021, in billions of page views. 2020 shown in a light blue
(Image: Monthly AO3 traffic for 2020 and 2021, in billions of page views. 2020 shown in a light blue, 2021 in dark blue. Lowest number: 1.13 billion page views in February, 2020. Highest number: 2.04 billion page views in August and December, 2021.) As discussed in our look back at 2020, AO3 traffic increased significantly in April of 2020, stabilized in the following months, and reached new record highs in November and December. 2021 continued in this vein, breaking all 2020 records and surpassing 2 billion page views in May, July, August, and December. All traffic data can be found in this Google Spreadsheet: AO3 Traffic 2021 -- source link