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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 Active Voice’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 120,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 59 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 205 posts. There were 148 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 41 MB. That's about 3 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was July 11th with 3,837 views. The most popular post that day was The only Jamaican paper with balls--The Sunday Herald.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for cake soap, what is cake soap, patrick powell jamaica, dog paw, and cakesoap.
Where did they come from?
- 55.5% The United States
- 22.5% Jamaica
- 10.3% Canada
- 4.3% Trinidad & Tobago
- 1.9% St. Vincent & Grenadines
- 55.8% United Kingdom
- 7.4% Germany
- 7.4% France
- 5.0% Netherlands
- 2.2% Poland
- 52.2% India
- 9.7% Philippines
- 4.3% Malaysia
- 4.3% Indonesia
- 3.4% United Arab Emirates
- 81.6% Australia
- 17.4% New Zealand
- 0.7% Fiji
- 0.3% Guam
- 38.1% Brazil
- 17.5% Guyana
- 10.8% Colombia
- 9.2% Suriname
- 6.9% Argentina
- 24.8% South Africa
- 23.6% Kenya
- 15.5% Ghana
- 5.2% Egypt
- 4.7% Nigeria
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Active Voice in 2011.
- 1 The only Jamaican paper with balls--The Sunday Herald 23 comments July 2011
- 2 Cake Soap and Creole: The Bleaching of the Nation... 30 comments January 2011
- 3 Of Dog Paw and Leah Tavares-Finson... 18 comments January 2011
- 4 "I decided to make my skin a living, breathing canvas": Vybz Kartel at UWI 16 comments March 2011
- 5 Emperor Haile Selassie's 1966 visit to Jamaica, Coral Gardens, Kerala and more... 10 comments April 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 Cake Soap and Creole: The Bleaching of the Nation...
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: