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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 Overflow’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 66,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 54 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 508 posts. There was 1 picture uploaded, taking a total of 101 KB.
The busiest day of the year was October 21st with 1,040 views. The most popular post that day was The Real Reason Why Mars Hill Seattle is Threatening Legal Action: Art Work & Brand, Not Name.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for francis chan calvinist, is francis chan a calvinist, bad church websites, taming the tongue, and hobbit feet.
Where did they come from?
- 95.6% The United States
- 3.6% Canada
- 0.2% Mexico
- 0.1% Jamaica
- 0.1% Costa Rica
- 44.6% United Kingdom
- 4.9% Iceland
- 4.8% Germany
- 4.1% Netherlands
- 3.9% France
- 82.5% Australia
- 13.8% New Zealand
- 1.9% Guam
- 0.7% New Caledonia
- 0.7% Fiji
- 29.9% Philippines
- 13.6% India
- 7.6% Malaysia
- 6.4% Singapore
- 4.5% Thailand
- 38.8% South Africa
- 14.6% Nigeria
- 13.3% Kenya
- 5.4% Ghana
- 2.9% Uganda
- 52.6% Brazil
- 10.3% Chile
- 9.3% Colombia
- 9.3% Peru
- 8.2% Argentina
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on The Overflow in 2011.
- 1 The Real Reason Why Mars Hill Seattle is Threatening Legal Action: Art Work & Brand, Not Name 31 comments October 2011
- 2 Top Party Schools - 2010 Princeton Review 7 comments July 2009
- 3 Top Party Schools - 2011 Princeton Review 4 comments August 2010
- 4 What's the Difference Between the Old Covenant & New Covenant in the Bible? 24 comments September 2009
- 5 Francis Chan: Are Your Beliefs Biblical? 35 comments September 2010
See you in 2012
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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 Beer Church: Yes or No?
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: