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Journey to the Stars
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Journey to the Stars’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 81,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 113 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 190 posts. There were 395 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 198mb. That's about a picture per day.
The busiest day of the year was January 4th with 5,011 views. The most popular post that day was January 4, 2011 Partial Solar Eclipse Webcast.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for lunar eclipse, supermoon, lunar eclipse june 15 philippines, lunar eclipse 2011 philippines, and summer solstice.
Where did they come from?
- 86.3% The United States
- 11.5% Canada
- 0.7% Mexico
- 0.3% Puerto Rico
- 0.3% Trinidad and Tobago
- 74.6% Philippines
- 10.8% India
- 2.0% Malaysia
- 1.6% Singapore
- 1.2% Japan
- 32.2% The United Kingdom
- 7.9% Spain
- 4.7% Germany
- 4.0% France
- 4.0% Netherlands
- 85.9% Australia
- 12.6% New Zealand
- 1.4% Guam
- 46.0% Brazil
- 26.0% Argentina
- 7.5% Colombia
- 6.5% Chile
- 5.0% Peru
- 53.7% South Africa
- 18.9% Egypt
- 4.9% Mauritius
- 4.9% Morocco
- 3.7% Ethiopia
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Journey to the Stars in 2011.
- 1 January 4, 2011 Partial Solar Eclipse Webcast 5 comments January 2011
- 2 Eclipses Visible in the Philippines During 2011 15 comments February 2011
- 3 Ophiuchus -- A New Zodiac Sign??? 15 comments January 2011
- 4 The 2011 Quadrantid Meteor Shower [UPDATED] 9 comments January 2011
- 5 Partial Lunar Eclipse in the Philippines on December 2010 9 comments December 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 Ophiuchus -- A New Zodiac Sign???
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: