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Making Hay
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Making Hay’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 8,800 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 125 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 346 posts. There were 27 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 8mb. That's about 2 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was January 13th with 199 views. The most popular post that day was Marketing your Charity.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for heads on stakes, making hay, pictures of dead terrorists, illegal immigration in australia, and paul mcmullan scar.
Where did they come from?
- 97.8% Australia
- 2.2% New Zealand
- 90.0% The United States
- 7.8% Canada
- 1.9% Mexico
- 0.3% The Bahamas
- 43.2% The United Kingdom
- 15.9% France
- 15.4% IE
- 4.9% Germany
- 2.6% Sweden
- 25.3% India
- 16.9% Singapore
- 12.0% Pakistan
- 9.6% Japan
- 8.4% Hong Kong
- 84.0% South Africa
- 8.0% Morocco
- 8.0% Kenya
- 50.0% Brazil
- 41.7% Argentina
- 8.3% Ecuador
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Making Hay in 2011.
- 1 Marketing your Charity 12 comments January 2011
- 2 Whispers from Egypt or Revolutions of Trust? 4 comments January 2011
- 3 Pictures of dead terrorists are Heads on Stakes for the civilised 0 comments May 2011
- 4 Your bleeding hearts on the floor of the abattoir 0 comments May 2011
- 5 FACTS on "Illegal" Immigration in Australia 1 comment August 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 Marketing your Charity
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: