2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 5 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 104 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 356 posts. There were 323 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 219mb. That’s about 6 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was November 16th with 271 views. The most popular post that day was Open Letter: John Hagee’s Pool: Swim At Your Own Risk; No Lifeguard On Duty.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were worldmapfinder.com, mail.yahoo.com, blackboard.du.edu, facebook.com, and mail.live.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for gaza, military bases in iraq, guadeloupe, rob prince, and larry mizel.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Open Letter: John Hagee’s Pool: Swim At Your Own Risk; No Lifeguard On Duty November 2010
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Farhat Hached and the Struggle for Tunisian Independence March 2010
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When Dems Court `The Left/Peace Movement’… July 2010
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Tom Engelhardt’s `The American Way Of War: How Bush’s War Became Obama’s July 2010
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The Second Coming of John Hagee to Denver September 2010
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