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Paying Attention To The Sky
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Paying Attention To The Sky’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 190,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 8 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 232 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 637 posts. There were 310 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 41mb. That's about 6 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was December 16th with 2,122 views. The most popular post that day was Michael Novak and Christopher Hitchens.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for christopher hitchens, angels, the french revolution, angels of god, and michelangelo.
Where did they come from?
- 88.2% The United States
- 10.2% Canada
- 0.7% Mexico
- 0.2% Jamaica
- 0.1% Trinidad and Tobago
- 37.4% The United Kingdom
- 5.3% Italy
- 4.7% France
- 3.9% Germany
- 3.8% IE
- 36.6% Philippines
- 20.5% India
- 5.2% Indonesia
- 4.5% South Korea
- 3.1% Singapore
- 88.6% Australia
- 10.4% New Zealand
- 0.4% Fiji
- 0.3% Guam
- 0.1% FM
- 59.4% Brazil
- 11.0% Argentina
- 8.4% Colombia
- 6.7% Chile
- 5.2% Peru
- 31.5% South Africa
- 20.1% Egypt
- 8.5% Kenya
- 8.0% Nigeria
- 7.9% Ghana
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Paying Attention To The Sky in 2011.
- 1 Michael Novak and Christopher Hitchens 5 comments September 2010
- 2 Michelangelo's Fresco of the Last Judgment 0 comments July 2010
- 3 The Reason God Created Angels – Mortimer J. Adler 1 comment June 2011
- 4 The French Revolution And Catholicism In The 18th Century by Christopher Dawkins 3 comments July 2011
- 5 Judaism, Christianity and Islam 0 comments May 2010
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 On Conservative Catholics
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: