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The Reading Zone
2012 in blogging
Annual Report
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 The Reading Zone’s activity in 2012. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 3 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
In 2012, there were 118 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,299 posts. There were 21 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 4 MB. That's about 2 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was September 3rd with 1,225 views. The most popular post that day was My Middle School Language Arts Classroom....
Attractions in 2012
These are the posts that got the most views on The Reading Zone in 2012.
- 1 My Middle School Language Arts Classroom... 44 comments July 2008
- 2 Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson 21 comments October 2008
- 3 Picture Books for Older Readers 30 comments February 2010
- 4 Article of the Week with Middle Schoolers 15 comments January 2010
- 5 Nuts and Bolts of the Read Aloud in my Middle School Classroom 30 comments April 2009
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2012 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for reading zone, the reading zone, picture books for older readers, john busby, and article of the week middle school.
Where did they come from?
That's 168 countries in all!Most visitors came from The United States. Canada & The United Kingdom were not far behind.
See you in 2013
Thanks for flying with WordPress.com in 2012. We look forward to serving you again in 2013! Happy New Year!
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2012 was Why Can't We Be Friends? The Common Core, Informational Text, and Literature
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: