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2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings’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 230,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 10 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 203 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 771 posts. There were 667 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 127 MB. That's about 2 pictures per day.
The busiest day of the year was March 23rd with 3,788 views. The most popular post that day was "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." ~ Coco Chanel.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for what dreams may come, kim kardashian fat, marvin the martian, elizabeth taylor eyes, and andrew wyeth.
Where did they come from?
- 88.8% The United States
- 9.4% Canada
- 1.1% Mexico
- 0.2% Puerto Rico
- 0.1% Trinidad & Tobago
- 29.4% United Kingdom
- 8.6% Germany
- 5.8% France
- 5.0% Italy
- 4.4% Spain
- 80.1% Australia
- 19.2% New Zealand
- 0.5% Guam
- 0.1% New Caledonia
- 0.0% Northern Mariana Islands
- 20.6% Philippines
- 20.5% India
- 6.6% Malaysia
- 5.5% Pakistan
- 5.4% Singapore
- 53.4% Brazil
- 15.8% Argentina
- 9.4% Colombia
- 8.2% Chile
- 5.2% Peru
- 41.3% South Africa
- 22.7% Egypt
- 8.8% Kenya
- 5.6% Morocco
- 3.6% Algeria
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings in 2011.
- 1 "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." ~ Coco Chanel 6 comments March 2009
- 2 "Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart" ~ Kahlil Gibran 14 comments February 2009
- 3 Buying Silk Flowers 6 comments March 2009
- 4 "You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own." ~ Antonio Porchia 11 comments March 2009
- 5 "Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever." ~ Aristophanes 0 comments December 2010
See you in 2012
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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 “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” ~ e. e. cummings
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: