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What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 130,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 39 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 849 posts. There were 34 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 6 MB. That's about 3 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was June 3rd with 1,004 views. The most popular post that day was Finding the truth is a waste of time, scientists say.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for r apply, 23andme review, apply r, php background process, and apply in r.
Where did they come from?
- 88.6% The United States
- 9.8% Canada
- 1.1% Mexico
- 0.1% Trinidad & Tobago
- 0.1% Puerto Rico
- 20.7% United Kingdom
- 14.5% Germany
- 7.4% France
- 5.5% Netherlands
- 5.4% Spain
- 30.3% India
- 13.5% South Korea
- 10.1% Japan
- 6.2% Taiwan
- 4.6% Indonesia
- 84.7% Australia
- 15.0% New Zealand
- 0.1% Guam
- 0.1% Fiji
- 0.1% New Caledonia
- 62.7% Brazil
- 11.7% Argentina
- 8.3% Chile
- 5.7% Colombia
- 4.2% Venezuela
- 49.2% South Africa
- 8.9% Cameroon
- 8.1% Kenya
- 6.0% Nigeria
- 6.0% Egypt
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate in 2011.
- 1 Finding the truth is a waste of time, scientists say 12 comments June 2011
- 2 A brief introduction to "apply" in R 9 comments August 2010
- 3 Running a background process in PHP 11 comments January 2007
- 4 23andme - yes, me - part 3 23 comments June 2010
- 5 MongoDB and Ubuntu 10.04 0 comments May 2010
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 What's more important: the publication or the product?
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: