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Consistently Infrequent
2011 in blogging
Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
About the fireworks
Each rocket represents a post published on this blog in 2011. And because we like to share, we made the fireworks available as a jQuery plugin on Github.
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Consistently Infrequent’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,000 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 50 trips to carry that many people.
In 2011, there were 27 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 29 posts. There were 10 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 2 MB. That's about a picture per month.
The busiest day of the year was November 9th with 204 views. The most popular post that day was Web Scraping Google Scholar: Part 2 (Complete Success).
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for war horse new london theatre, tony breyal, war horse, rcurl google books, and facebook_graph_api_explorer.r.
Where did they come from?
- 90.7% The United States
- 7.8% Canada
- 1.4% Mexico
- 21.3% Germany
- 19.5% The United Kingdom
- 8.9% France
- 8.6% Italy
- 5.0% Austria
- 76.3% Australia
- 23.7% New Zealand
- 33.3% Japan
- 22.2% India
- 9.2% Singapore
- 9.2% South Korea
- 7.8% TW
- 55.6% Brazil
- 33.3% Argentina
- 4.2% Chile
- 2.8% Venezuela
- 2.8% Colombia
- 55.6% South Africa
- 16.7% Kenya
- 16.7% Tunisia
- 5.6% Senegal
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Consistently Infrequent in 2011.
- 1 Web Scraping Google Scholar: Part 2 (Complete Success) 13 comments November 2011
- 2 Code Optimization: One R Problem, Ten Solutions – Now Eleven! 0 comments November 2011
- 3 Web Scraping Google Scholar (Partial Success) 0 comments November 2011
- 4 Web Scraping Google URLs 3 comments November 2011
- 5 htmlToText(): Extracting Text from HTML via XPath 6 comments November 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 Web Scraping Google Scholar: Part 2 (Complete Success)
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: