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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 The Reading Zone’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 250,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 11 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 128 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,178 posts. There were 48 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 15 MB. That's about 4 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was September 5th with 1,647 views. The most popular post that day was My Middle School Language Arts Classroom....
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for john busby, chains by laurie halse anderson, reading zone, and the hunger games summary.
Where did they come from?
- 92.2% The United States
- 7.2% Canada
- 0.2% Mexico
- 0.1% Puerto Rico
- 0.0% Bermuda
- 33.4% The United Kingdom
- 12.5% Spain
- 8.3% IE
- 5.5% Germany
- 5.5% Sweden
- 81.1% Australia
- 15.6% New Zealand
- 2.2% Guam
- 0.8% Northern Mariana Islands
- 0.2% Papua New Guinea
- 25.7% Philippines
- 12.5% South Korea
- 11.9% India
- 5.3% Thailand
- 4.4% Pakistan
- 30.4% Brazil
- 23.6% Colombia
- 13.5% Argentina
- 8.8% Venezuela
- 6.8% Peru
- 25.3% Egypt
- 19.9% South Africa
- 8.9% Tunisia
- 8.9% Morocco
- 8.9% Uganda
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on The Reading Zone in 2011.
- 1 My Middle School Language Arts Classroom... 37 comments July 2008
- 2 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 183 comments May 2008
- 3 Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson 20 comments October 2008
- 4 Found (The Missing Book 1) by Margaret Peterson Haddix 93 comments May 2008
- 5 Where I'm From poems 15 comments September 2008
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 RELIC MASTER SERIES BOOK RELEASE + GIVEAWAY!
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: