Top 3 viral secrets uncovered after deep analysis

TOP 3 viral secrets uncovered after analyzing over 10,000 most viral articles from 2016
They analyzed 11,541 top performing viral titles from 2016, plus 20,000 more titles from 2015.

Here are the TOP 3 viral secrets they uncovered:

1. 61% of the top titles include a number (a big part of them are list posts)

2. Some of the most popular common words and phrases (not sorted):
+ “Do you … ?”
+ “Do you agree … ?”
+ “Can you … ?”
+ “Is the … ?”
+ “Video”
+ “How to”
+ “This is what”

3. The top shared articles from 2016 had an average of 343 words!
Some of the articles had no text at all (a headline with an image).