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Under the Apricot Tree
2011 in blogging
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About the fireworks
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Under the Apricot Tree’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 27,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 27 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 165 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 241mb. That's about 3 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was October 24th with 7,426 views. The most popular post that day was No Shame in Stillness.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for under the apricot tree, under the apricot tree blog, undertheapricottree.wordpress.com, and old things.
Where did they come from?
- 89.8% The United States
- 9.0% Canada
- 0.8% Mexico
- 0.1% Dominican Republic
- 0.1% Puerto Rico
- 31.1% The United Kingdom
- 12.4% France
- 9.1% Germany
- 5.7% Spain
- 5.0% Italy
- 87.7% Australia
- 11.7% New Zealand
- 0.5% Vanuatu
- 0.1% Fiji
- 17.1% India
- 16.9% Philippines
- 15.0% Indonesia
- 13.2% Singapore
- 6.7% Malaysia
- 60.0% Brazil
- 17.6% Argentina
- 8.6% Chile
- 5.6% Colombia
- 2.7% Venezuela
- 43.0% South Africa
- 14.5% Niger
- 12.4% Kenya
- 7.4% Egypt
- 5.0% Uganda
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Under the Apricot Tree in 2011.
- 1 No Shame in Stillness 322 comments October 2011
- 2 More on Stillness 15 comments October 2011
- 3 Maternity Pics 15 comments October 2011
- 4 Pregnancy Update 26 comments November 2011
- 5 William's Birth Story 18 comments December 2011
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 No Shame in Stillness
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: