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the pondering pig
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on the pondering pig’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 35,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 3 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 332 posts. There were 6 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 310kb.
The busiest day of the year was January 5th with 235 views. The most popular post that day was Sixties Survivors #6: Signe Anderson.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for signe anderson, birthday party, robert crumb, joni mitchell, and twiggy.
Where did they come from?
- 92.3% The United States
- 6.1% Canada
- 1.1% Mexico
- 0.1% Puerto Rico
- 0.1% Costa Rica
- 26.0% The United Kingdom
- 12.2% France
- 7.2% Germany
- 6.6% Netherlands
- 5.3% Italy
- 86.6% Australia
- 13.4% New Zealand
- 45.6% Brazil
- 24.0% Argentina
- 10.8% Chile
- 7.1% Colombia
- 5.7% Peru
- 12.0% Japan
- 11.0% India
- 9.8% Indonesia
- 8.5% Philippines
- 8.0% Israel
- 25.0% South Africa
- 16.7% Egypt
- 13.9% Nigeria
- 8.3% Namibia
- 8.3% Morocco
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on the pondering pig in 2011.
- 1 Sixties Survivors #6: Signe Anderson 40 comments September 2008
- 2 Crybaby's Birthday Party 12 comments October 2008
- 3 The Luminaries of the Haight-Ashbury #2: Robert Crumb 9 comments August 2008
- 4 Sixties Survivors #9: Grace Slick 42 comments October 2008
- 5 Baby Beatniks in "Yet Another Reason Not To Smoke" 1 comment April 2006
See you in 2012
Thanks for flying with WordPress.com in 2011.
We look forward to serving you again in 2012! Happy New Year!
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2011 was Leslie In The Crystalline Night
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: