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I am so There
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on I am so There’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 810,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 35 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 93 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 163 posts. There were 104 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 330 MB. That's about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was August 8th with 8,202 views. The most popular post that day was News *This* Big.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for i am so there, michael wilson blog, im so there, michael wilson wordpress, and there.com reopening.
Where did they come from?
- 92.5% The United States
- 6.9% Canada
- 0.3% Mexico
- 0.1% Trinidad & Tobago
- 0.1% Jamaica
- 68.0% United Kingdom
- 5.3% Netherlands
- 5.0% Denmark
- 3.2% Portugal
- 2.7% Norway
- 79.7% Australia
- 17.7% New Zealand
- 2.5% Guam
- 0.0% Fiji
- 49.9% Argentina
- 16.3% Brazil
- 11.5% Chile
- 9.4% Peru
- 7.5% Colombia
- 19.0% Israel
- 15.4% Saudi Arabia
- 12.8% Singapore
- 10.9% Japan
- 10.1% India
- 54.5% Egypt
- 33.4% Mauritius
- 4.3% Kenya
- 2.7% South Africa
- 1.4% Algeria
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on I am so There in 2011.
- 1 News *This* Big 277 comments August 2011
- 2 There will re-open 1739 comments May 2011
- 3 Survey 1382 comments April 2011
- 4 There will re-open update 05/20/2011 712 comments May 2011
- 5 We STILL believe ThereIM will be available by the End of June, 2011 174 comments June 2011
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 There will re-open
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: