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Covering January 1, 2025 – December 29, 2025.

This page is for the people who asked, “Is anyone actually reading this?” — and for the part of me that wants to answer honestly, without turning human attention into a scoreboard.

So consider this a listening report: anonymous, aggregated patterns that help me understand what readers needed this year, where they found it, and what they stayed with.

If you’d rather start with the story and the gratitude behind the data, read the main wrap-up first: A Year of Listening: Consent Culture 2025 Wrap-Up.

The headline (without the hype)

  • Active users: 97,643
  • Engaged sessions: 50,027
  • Countries & territories represented: 204

These are aggregated analytics numbers (not personal data), and location data is approximate.

Where readers showed up from

Readers came from everywhere. Here are the top countries by active users:

Country Active users
United States 40,291
United Kingdom 8,066
Germany 4,219
Canada 3,881
China 3,431
Australia 2,929
Netherlands 2,612
Singapore 2,288
Philippines 2,171
India 1,993

And here are the top towns/cities (excluding “(not set)”):

Town/City Active users
Singapore 2,212
Ashburn 2,183
London 1,983
New York 1,795
Chicago 1,191
Los Angeles 1,065
Sydney 851
Dallas 849
Columbus 828
Seattle 772

What people stayed with

Instead of ranking pages purely by views, I’m sharing a list of pages where people tended to spend meaningful time (measured as average engagement time per reader, with a minimum traffic threshold so it’s not dominated by one‑off outliers).

The quiet corners that mattered

Some pages didn’t have huge traffic, but the people who found them stayed. These are a few “quiet performers” that deserve a little more light:

How people found the site (Google search entry points)

Many people arrived via Google search — often because they were trying to define a word or make sense of a dynamic. Here are some of the top landing pages from organic search:

What we published (library size as of late December)

One more context note: the library has grown into multiple formats, because different people need different entry points.

  • Posts / articles: 358
  • Glossary entries: 4,151
  • FAQs: 1,782

If you’re new here, the easiest entry points are:

What I’m taking into next year

The numbers are interesting, but the meaning is the real point:

  • People aren’t only searching for “rules” — they’re searching for language that reduces confusion and conflict.
  • Readers spend time with pages that slow down the story and make room for nuance.
  • Some of the most important work happens in the “small” pages: definitions, FAQs, and the uncomfortable topics people don’t always know how to ask about out loud.

Next year’s goal is to keep writing in a way that’s grounded, careful, and updateable — and to keep building routes through the site so that the right page can find the right person at the right time.

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About the Author: Gareth Redfern-Shaw

Gareth is the founder of Consent Culture, a platform focused on consent, kink, ethical non-monogamy, relationship dynamics, and the work of creating safer spaces. His work emphasizes meaningful, judgment-free conversations around communication, harm reduction, and accountability in practice, not just in name. Through Consent Culture, he aims to inspire curiosity, build trust, and support a safer, more connected world.

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