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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 Its always better to hack around than...’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.
In 2011, there were 14 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 23 posts. There were 22 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 4 MB. That's about 2 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was January 20th with 48 views. The most popular post that day was Chromeshelf - A chrome extension to keep track of ebooks you want to read..
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for samsung r528, shia labeouf transformers, tg motocross 4 pro, smarty mod_rewrite, and invite someone to google+.
Where did they come from?
- 74.8% India
- 3.2% Indonesia
- 2.7% Pakistan
- 2.1% Taiwan
- 2.1% Malaysia
- 90.8% The United States
- 7.3% Canada
- 1.0% Mexico
- 0.6% Costa Rica
- 0.3% Dominican Republic
- 21.2% United Kingdom
- 11.9% Germany
- 6.1% Netherlands
- 4.6% Spain
- 4.1% Russia
- 56.4% Brazil
- 12.8% Peru
- 10.3% Colombia
- 5.1% Argentina
- 5.1% Chile
- 81.8% Australia
- 13.6% New Zealand
- 4.5% New Caledonia
- 55.6% Egypt
- 27.8% Morocco
- 11.1% South Africa
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Its always better to hack around than... in 2011.
- 1 Chromeshelf - A chrome extension to keep track of ebooks you want to read. 0 comments January 2011
- 2 Url Rewriting using php, smarty and mod_rewrite 19 comments June 2008
- 3 Transformers lead actor Shia LaBeouf got his duplicate in India 0 comments October 2011
- 4 Sort & Save ordering of JqueryUI Tab: An hack 4 comments September 2009
- 5 Hurrey!!! Got a new SAMSUNG R528 Notebook 0 comments June 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 A Tribute to Steve Jobs
These were the 4 most active commenters on this blog: