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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 Wiert Corner - irregular stream of Wiert stuff’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 240,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 10 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 427 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 771 posts. There were 10 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 661kb. That's about a picture per month.
The busiest day of the year was September 10th with 2,069 views. The most popular post that day was Stephen Forte`s Blog - Silverlight is Dead, Long Live XAML.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine and thermostaat wifi.
Where did they come from?
- 84.2% The United States
- 12.5% Canada
- 2.1% Mexico
- 0.2% Costa Rica
- 0.2% Dominican Republic
- 16.7% Netherlands
- 15.6% Germany
- 11.5% The United Kingdom
- 5.4% Italy
- 5.1% Russia
- 29.7% India
- 9.0% Japan
- 6.3% Israel
- 5.8% TW
- 5.8% South Korea
- 66.3% Brazil
- 10.4% Argentina
- 5.1% Paraguay
- 5.0% Colombia
- 4.5% Chile
- 81.1% Australia
- 18.1% New Zealand
- 0.2% French Polynesia
- 0.2% New Caledonia
- 0.1% Papua New Guinea
- 52.8% South Africa
- 9.6% Algeria
- 8.8% Egypt
- 8.0% Kenya
- 3.6% Tunisia
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of Wiert stuff in 2011.
- 1 Stephen Forte`s Blog - Silverlight is Dead, Long Live XAML 6 comments September 2011
- 2 VMware Converter 4.01: "Unable to obtain hardware information" or "Unable to determine Guest Operating System" 18 comments June 2010
- 3 VMware ESXi 4.0 / ESXi 4.1: enable SSH login for non-root users (and only them) 6 comments September 2010
- 4 Delphi - FastMM: Using FastMM4 for debugging your memory allocations - part 1: Introduction 17 comments July 2009
- 5 sun Java JRE 1.6.0.20 direct download for Windows 3 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 Dropbox - Simplify your life - easy way to sync your iOS Delphi XE2 FireMonkey stuff between your Mac and PC
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: