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Shards of China
2012 in blogging
Annual Report
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About the fireworks
Each rocket represents a post published on this blog in 2012. 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 Shards of China’s activity in 2012. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 140,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2012, there were 162 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 384 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 47 MB. That's about a picture per day.
The busiest day of the year was November 16th with 808 views. The most popular post that day was China’s Economy – The Working Classes.
Attractions in 2012
These are the posts that got the most views on Shards of China in 2012.
- 1 Misusing Marco Polo 10 comments June 2012
- 2 China's Gender Crisis: Domestic Violence 34 comments May 2012
- 3 Sex in China – Not so Gay Family Life 17 comments February 2012
- 4 Sex in China – Seven Levels of Ladies who want Largesse for Love 11 comments February 2012
- 5 Chicken Feet – Oh yes, really. 15 comments January 2012
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2012 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for marco polo, chengdu, chinese man, chicken feet, and wacken.
Where did they come from?
That's 196 countries in all!Most visitors came from The United States. United Kingdom & Canada were not far behind.
See you in 2013
Thanks for flying with WordPress.com in 2012. We look forward to serving you again in 2013! Happy New Year!
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2012 was About
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: