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Drifting Son
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Drifting Son’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
In 2011, there were 31 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 68 posts. There were 66 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 41mb. That's about a picture per week.
The busiest day of the year was February 11th with 102 views. The most popular post that day was Fighting monsters with a kayak.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for drifting son, wa'apa sailing canoe, wa'apa, moana kali, and how to catch opelu.
Where did they come from?
- 95.1% The United States
- 4.1% Canada
- 0.5% Belize
- 85.1% Brazil
- 4.3% Peru
- 4.3% Colombia
- 2.1% Uruguay
- 2.1% Ecuador
- 19.4% Spain
- 13.3% The United Kingdom
- 13.3% Germany
- 9.7% Poland
- 9.1% France
- 65.0% Australia
- 25.0% New Zealand
- 7.5% Cook Islands
- 2.5% Guam
- 30.8% Japan
- 30.8% Thailand
- 11.5% Philippines
- 7.7% Indonesia
- 7.7% United Arab Emirates
- 50.0% South Africa
- 40.0% Tunisia
- 10.0% Djibouti
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Drifting Son in 2011.
- 1 Fighting monsters with a kayak 3 comments February 2011
- 2 On being kept humble by an apex predator. 10 comments June 2011
- 3 Cove Guardians Witness Disaster in Otsuchi, Japan - Sea Shepherd 0 comments March 2011
- 4 Wa'apa Sailing Canoe 1 comment April 2011
- 5 Polynesian voyaging canoes reach Hilo from New Zealand 0 comments June 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 On being kept humble by an apex predator.
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: