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My year in blogging in 2010, by the numbers

I received this e-mail from WordPress.com and thought I’d share it with you in the interest of full disclosure…or at least partial disclosure:

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

Featured image

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.

 

In 2010, there were 272 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1383 posts. There were 91 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 16mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was September 1st with 130 views. The most popular post that day was I am stuck on this ditty and this ditty’s stuck on me.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were networkedblogs.com, Google Reader, ow.ly, unfinishedrambler.com, and facebook.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for glasgow smile, vulgar songs, nerd porn, poop drops, and benton air force station. (How’s that for scary?)

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

I am stuck on this ditty and this ditty’s stuck on me September 2010
13 comments

2

Rachael Ray and her Glasgow smile April 2010
24 comments

3

Margaret Bourke-White: Bread Line during the Louisville flood, Kentucky 1937 July 2008

4

About this blog August 2009
1 comment

5

Famous people who share their birthday with me (redux) June 2010
10 comments

September: The month of monkeys, book bloggers, Rachael Ray and Margaret Bourke-White

It’s been a slow month for Unfinished Person and Unfinished Rambler. This month so far, and counting today’s post, we’ve only had 18 posts. That doesn’t mean, though, that it hasn’t been a quality month, especially with Unfinished Person writing posts for Book Blogger Appreciation Week.

The top two posts for that week, based on number of views, were:

Unfinished Rambler, meanwhile, led the way with posts with the most views with three:

  1. Rachael Ray and her Glasgow smile: Again, this post just continues to climb the stats and now is the No. 4 post (counting “Home Page”) in number of views all-time on the blog. Go visit it now and maybe it will reach No. 2 soon.
  2. I am the Monkey King, I can do anything: Where Unfinished Rambler sees the image of a monkey king in…well, you’ll just have to read the post to find out where.
  3. The post where I disillusion myself that I am a blogger: Unfinished Rambler finds humor in a situation that at least one commenter didn’t think was so funny. For the record, at least, one of us (ahem, Unfinished Person) thought the commenter had a point.

We also want to give a special shout-out to our most popular post in views all-time next to the ever-present “Home Page”:  Margaret Bourke-White: Breadline during the Louisville Flood, Kentucky 1937.  We didn’t even write it. All that it is is a reposting of a photo from a site called Masters of Photography, reposted with permission under the policies of the site. Just thinking out loud: If we reposted more photos like this, with the appropriate permission, of course, maybe it would catapult us into the blogosphere stratosphere. Oh, well, we can dream anyway.