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Gay Spirit Diary
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Gay Spirit Diary’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 71,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 22 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 254 posts. There were 57 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 16mb. That's about a picture per week.
The busiest day of the year was June 2nd with 695 views. The most popular post that day was Tornado Alley: So Far, So Good.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for tornado, tomato, sean hayes, tornado pictures, and broccoli.
Where did they come from?
- 85.1% The United States
- 12.8% Canada
- 0.7% Mexico
- 0.3% Jamaica
- 0.2% Guatemala
- 31.8% The United Kingdom
- 5.4% Netherlands
- 5.2% Germany
- 4.8% Italy
- 4.3% Sweden
- 26.8% India
- 14.0% Philippines
- 8.1% Indonesia
- 6.3% Malaysia
- 6.0% Israel
- 84.4% Australia
- 15.1% New Zealand
- 0.3% Papua New Guinea
- 0.2% Guam
- 55.3% South Africa
- 12.2% Egypt
- 5.7% Nigeria
- 4.9% Ghana
- 4.5% Kenya
- 63.1% Brazil
- 9.4% Colombia
- 6.9% Argentina
- 5.0% Peru
- 4.4% Ecuador
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Gay Spirit Diary in 2011.
- 1 Tornado Alley: So Far, So Good 4 comments May 2011
- 2 First Tomato a Total Bust, but Ice-Licking Dog Makes Up For It 3 comments July 2010
- 3 Sean Hayes, Broadway Star, Knocks 'Em Dead as Tony Host 6 comments June 2010
- 4 It's Pansy Time! 4 comments April 2009
- 5 Garden Wrapup, and I've Got Broccoli! 0 comments October 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 Forgiving the Murderers, Part 2
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: