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Margaret and Helen
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Margaret and Helen’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 580,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 25 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 8 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 110 posts.
The busiest day of the year was February 17th with 11,028 views. The most popular post that day was Make a donation to Planned Parenthood.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for margaret and helen, helen and margaret blog, helen and margaret, old ass, and thanksgiving letter.
Where did they come from?
- 95.9% The United States
- 3.9% Canada
- 0.1% Mexico
- 0.0% Jamaica
- 0.0% Costa Rica
- 38.5% The United Kingdom
- 12.2% Germany
- 8.8% Russia
- 6.1% France
- 5.7% Netherlands
- 82.7% Australia
- 16.6% New Zealand
- 0.2% MH
- 0.2% Northern Mariana Islands
- 0.1% Guam
- 17.6% India
- 16.9% Philippines
- 16.5% Malaysia
- 11.0% Japan
- 4.7% South Korea
- 38.5% South Africa
- 14.2% Kenya
- 9.0% Nigeria
- 8.7% Botswana
- 6.6% Ghana
- 34.0% Brazil
- 18.7% Argentina
- 17.2% Colombia
- 15.8% Chile
- 4.9% Peru
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Margaret and Helen in 2011.
- 1 Make a donation to Planned Parenthood 242 comments January 2011
- 2 Sometimes men should just stick to football... but I digress 1879 comments January 2011
- 3 72 Virgins Just Changed the Channel 2162 comments May 2011
- 4 Who has the better bouffant? 1656 comments August 2011
- 5 You Get What You Vote For 1261 comments August 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 72 Virgins Just Changed the Channel
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: