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Second Star To The Right
2011 in blogging
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About the fireworks
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Second Star To The Right’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,100 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 52 trips to carry that many people.
In 2011, there were 17 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 59 posts. There were 198 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 378mb. That's about 4 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was June 13th with 91 views. The most popular post that day was Barcelona, Day Two: The Zoo, Tapas and Flamenco!.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for balandra, carnival magic, balandra beach, dublin zoo, and mona lisa louvre.
Where did they come from?
- 78.4% The United States
- 12.1% Mexico
- 8.6% Canada
- 0.2% Puerto Rico
- 0.2% Dominican Republic
- 21.4% The United Kingdom
- 7.2% Spain
- 6.2% Czech Republic
- 6.2% Hungary
- 6.2% Russia
- 18.3% Indonesia
- 15.0% Hong Kong
- 10.0% South Korea
- 10.0% Japan
- 10.0% Thailand
- 71.4% Australia
- 21.4% New Zealand
- 7.1% Papua New Guinea
- 33.3% Brazil
- 29.2% Argentina
- 20.8% Colombia
- 12.5% Ecuador
- 4.2% Chile
- 66.7% South Africa
- 33.3% Nigeria
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Second Star To The Right in 2011.
- 1 Barcelona, Day Two: The Zoo, Tapas and Flamenco! 1 comment June 2011
- 2 Balandra Beach and the Legend of Yemayá 1 comment June 2010
- 3 The Carnival "Magic" 0 comments June 2011
- 4 Musee du Louvre 2 comments December 2009
- 5 Marseilles, France - Arles & St. Remy 0 comments June 2011
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 Old Napoli, the Birth Place of Pizza
These were the 4 most active commenters on this blog: