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What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate
2012 in blogging
Annual Report
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About the fireworks
Each rocket represents a post published on this blog in 2012. 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 What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate’s activity in 2012. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 160,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2012, there were 22 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 874 posts. There were 17 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 893 KB. That's about a picture per month.
The busiest day of the year was July 24th with 2,954 views. The most popular post that day was We really don't care what statistical method you used.
Attractions in 2012
These are the posts that got the most views on What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate in 2012.
- 1 A brief introduction to "apply" in R 9 comments August 2010
- 2 Running a background process in PHP 11 comments January 2007
- 3 We really don't care what statistical method you used 13 comments July 2012
- 4 Easy visualisation of database schemas using SQLFairy 9 comments January 2009
- 5 Linux tip: sort a tab-delimited file 3 comments January 2008
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2012 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for r apply, apply r, apply in r, 23andme review, and php background process.
Where did they come from?
That's 176 countries in all!Most visitors came from The United States. United Kingdom & Germany were not far behind.
See you in 2013
Thanks for flying with WordPress.com in 2012. We look forward to serving you again in 2013! Happy New Year!
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2012 was Comments at journal websites: just turn them off
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: