2010 in review from WordPress

I received this via email today and enjoyed the overview. WordPress gave me the offer to directly post it to my blog, so for your interest:

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:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 7 days for that many people to see it.

 

In 2010, there were 407 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 566 posts. There were 37 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 3mb. That’s about 3 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was April 16th with 35,976 views. The most popular post that day was Apple removes Scratch from iPad/iPhone/iTouch.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were reddit.com, news.ycombinator.com, Google Reader, twitter.com, and lambda-the-ultimate.org.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for mark guzdial blog, scratch ipad, ipad scratch, computing education blog, and mark guzdial.

Attractions in 2010

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

1

Apple removes Scratch from iPad/iPhone/iTouch April 2010
114 comments

2

Cleaving Computer Science: A Time for New Degrees February 2010
12 comments

3

Stanford finds cheating increasing, especially among CS students February 2010
15 comments

4

Alan Kay on Hoping That “Simple” is not “Too Simple” April 2010
23 comments

5

Scratch for iPhone! March 2010
3 comments