I really should try to keep up with my email. Jetpack, the WordPress stats add-on sent me an email with a report on what I did in 2011, and I only noticed it today. It had some interesting statistics. Enjoy.
Regards
Wayne Borean
January 11, 2012
Your 2011 year in blogging
WordPress.com presents
Wayne Borean
2011 in blogging
Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
About the fireworks
Each rocket represents a post published on this blog in 2011. And because we like to share, we made the fireworks available as a jQuery plugin on Github.
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on your blog’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 58,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 21 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 71 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 464 posts.
The busiest day of the year was February 8th with 1,538 views. The most popular post that day was Anonymous v. Computer Insecurity Expert Aaron Barr – Updated.
This report only shows data since you connected Jetpack.
How did they find you?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for libre office vs openoffice, aaron barr, anatomy, libre office vs open office, and libreoffice vs openoffice.
Where did they come from?
- North America
- 64.4% The United States
- 34.5% Canada
- 0.6% Mexico
- 0.1% Puerto Rico
- 0.1% The Bahamas
- Europe
- 28.2% The United Kingdom
- 8.4% Germany
- 8.0% France
- 4.0% Sweden
- 3.8% Spain
- Oceania
- 89.4% Australia
- 10.2% New Zealand
- Asia
- 23.0% India
- 13.3% Indonesia
- 8.7% Malaysia
- 8.5% Japan
- 6.2% Philippines
- South America
- 60.9% Brazil
- 17.4% Argentina
- 6.5% Chile
- 4.3% Bolivia
- 4.3% Uruguay
- Africa
- 39.7% South Africa
- 19.0% Egypt
- 9.5% Kenya
- 4.8% Sudan
- 4.8% Tanzania
Most visitors came from The United States. Canada & The United Kingdom were not far behind.
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views in 2011. You can see all of the year’s most-viewed posts in your Site Stats.
- 1 Anonymous v. Computer Insecurity Expert Aaron Barr – Updated 18 comments February 2011
- 2 Libre Office VS Open Office – Looks And Stability 7 comments January 2011
- 3 Server Operating System Market Share – Lies, Lies, And More Lies 3 comments November 2010
- 4 One Soul Thrust – Who Is Lying To Them 45 comments March 2011
- 5 The Anatomy of Anonymous – An Analysis Of Probable Future Actions 2 comments February 2011
Some of your most popular posts were written before 2011. Your writing has staying power! Consider writing about those topics again.
See you in 2012
If you like what you saw in this summary and want to know more about how your blog is doing, you can always visit your Site Stats, where our helper-monkeys are working day and night to provide you with pages and pages of detail on how your blog is doing.
Thanks for flying with WordPress.com in 2011.
We look forward to serving you again in 2012! Happy New Year!
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