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Lighting the Fuse
2011 in blogging
Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
About the fireworks
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Lighting the Fuse’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 60,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 22 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 97 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 217 posts. There were 517 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 200mb. That's about a picture per day.
The busiest day of the year was December 16th with 572 views. The most popular post that day was The Best Way to Advertise a Push-up Bra.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for mukesh ambani yacht, panda, harrods, new york taxi, and christmas tree.
Where did they come from?
- 67.2% The United Kingdom
- 4.0% France
- 3.1% Germany
- 3.0% Netherlands
- 2.1% Belgium
- 83.2% The United States
- 14.3% Canada
- 1.4% Mexico
- 0.3% Trinidad and Tobago
- 0.2% Puerto Rico
- 50.8% India
- 5.3% Malaysia
- 4.4% Philippines
- 4.3% Singapore
- 3.6% Indonesia
- 87.9% Australia
- 11.1% New Zealand
- 0.5% Guam
- 0.4% French Polynesia
- 0.1% Fiji
- 60.4% Brazil
- 14.3% Argentina
- 9.8% Colombia
- 4.5% Peru
- 4.1% Chile
- 51.1% South Africa
- 13.9% Egypt
- 7.2% Kenya
- 5.6% Morocco
- 4.4% Tunisia
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Lighting the Fuse in 2011.
- 1 The Best Way to Advertise a Push-up Bra 3 comments December 2011
- 2 Mukesh Ambani's Yacht 6 comments March 2011
- 3 Evolution Of Iconic Taxi's (New York City) 3 comments December 2010
- 4 Special Christmas Trees 1 comment December 2010
- 5 Crazy Pandas 1 comment March 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 Mukesh Ambani's Yacht
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: