Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
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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We made beautiful, animated fireworks to celebrate your blogging! Unfortunately this browser lacks the capability. We made a slide show to fill in but we hope you will come back to this page with an HTML5 browser. In our tests, Safari or Chrome worked best.
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!
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.
These are the posts that got the most views on What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate in 2012.
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.
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: