The State of the Hardy Boys Encyclopedia - 2020 Edition

[SkyWarp]

Below are a few interesting tidbits taken from the site's web statistics during 2020 based upon most visits to these sections of the website.   

An asterisk(*) denotes that a particular item was not in the top list last year.


Most Popular Books and TV Episodes of 2020

CASEFILES
Casefiles #1: Dead On Target
Casefiles 35: The Dead Season*
Casefiles #11: Brother Against Brother
Casefiles #34: Final Cut*
Casefiles #2: Evil, Inc.

NANCY DREW AND HARDY BOYS SUPERMYSTERY
SuperMystery #1: Double Crossing
SuperMystery #2: A Crime for Christmas
SuperMystery #30: Nightmare in New Orleans
SuperMystery #5: The Last Resort
SuperMystery #25: Secrets of the Nile*

UNDERCOVER BROTHERS
UB #1: Extreme Danger
UB 7: Operation: Survival*
UB #5: Rocky Road
UB #11: Hurricane Joe
UB #2: Running on Fumes*

NANCY DREW AND THE HARDY BOYS SUPERMYSTERY
SuperMystery #2: Danger Overseas
SuperMystery #1: Terror on Tour
SuperMystery #4: Gold Medal Murder
SuperMystery #5: Bonfire Masquerade
SuperMystery #3: Club Dread

UNDERCOVER BROTHERS GRAPHIC NOVELS
Graphic Novel #9: To Die or Not to Die
Graphic Novel #15: Live Free, Die Hardy!*
Graphic Novel #2: Identity Theft
Graphic Novel #1: The Ocean of Osyria*
Graphic Novel #3: Mad House

ADVENTURES
Adventure #1: Secret of the Red Arrow
Adventure #5: Peril at Granite Peak*
Adventure #20: Return to Black Bear Mountain*
Adventure #16: Stolen Identity
Adventure #19: Dungeons & Detectives*

CLUE BOOKS
Clue Book #1: The Video Game Bandit
Clues Book #5: Scavenger Hunt Heist
Clues Book #2: The Missing Playbook
Clues Book #8: The Time Warp Wonder
Clues Book #10: The Great Pumpkin Smash

SECRET FILES
Secret Files #1: Trouble at the Arcade
Secret Files #3: Mystery Map
Secret Files #2: The Missing Mitt
Secret Files #11: Robot Rumble*
Secret Files #8: Sports Sabotage

MYSTERIES/DIGESTS
Mystery #1: The Tower Treasure
Mystery #67: The Outlaw's Silver*
Mystery #2: The House on the Cliff
Mystery #124: Mystery with a Dangerous Beat*
Mystery #190: Motocross Madness

CLUES BROTHERS
Clues Brother #1: The Gross Ghost Mystery
Clues Brother #17: The Bike Race Ruckus
Clues Brother #2: The Karate Clue
Clues Brother #11: The Monster in the Lake
Clues Brother #3: First Day, Worst Day

TELEVISION 1995
Episode #1: Jazzman*
Episode #11: Love Birds*
Episode #2:  All That Glitters*
Episode #10: The Debt Collectors*
Episode #7: Say Cheese*

TELEVISION 2020
Episode #1: Welcome to Your Life*
Episode #2: Where the Light Can't Find You*
Episode #7:  A Figure in Hiding*
Episode #3: Of Freedom and Pleasure*
Episode #4: Secrets and Lies*


Most Popular Wallpapers of 2020

CASEFILES (wallpapers found at the bottom of each casefile 1-36 page)
Casefile #1: Dead On Target
Casefile #4: The Lazarus Plot*
Casefile #30: The Deadliest Dare*
Casefile #2: Evil, Inc.*
Casefile #34 Final Cut*


Most Popular Off-site Links of 2020

WEBSITES
The Hardy Boys Adventures
The Hardy Boys Online
the hardy boys unofficial home page
Simon and Schuster
The Hardy Boys Series Facebook Page*


Most Popular Database Entries of 2020

CHARACTERS
Frank Hardy
Joe Hardy
Callie Shaw
Aunt Gertrude Hardy
Fenton Hardy
Iola Morton
Chet Morton
Biff Hooper
Vanessa Bender
Laura Hardy

PLACES and THINGS
Barmet Bay
Lacey's Department Store*
Hardy Van
Hurricane Miranda
Bayport
American Teens Against Crime "ATAC"*
Hardy house*


Most Popular Forum Topics of 2020

FORUM TOPICS MOST VIEWED
Reading Levels
Free Casefiles
Quotes
Brotherly Moments*
Where is Bayport*

[SkyWarp]

With Covid and the new Television show things were a little more lively in 2020.  And although the TV show came out late in 2020, you can start to see a little bit of its influence on the stats.  It will be interesting to see if that influence continues into 2021. 

A few notes of interest.   

Aunt "Trudy" Gertrude Hardy became much more popular this year. 

"Where is Bayport" also brought more traffic to the site. 

The "Assassins" lost interest this year. 

[MacGyver]

Interesting to see as always. Some of the old threads make sense to be popular again, like the question about Bayport's location with the rise of the new TV show. Other old threads seem to come back up out of nowhere. I'm glad things have been a bit more lively on the forums this last year though. Hopefully that will continue this year.