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2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Confessions of a Linguist!’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 28,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 6 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 71 posts. There were 28 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 5mb. That's about 2 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was June 8th with 152 views. The most popular post that day was Survival Phrases in Tamil: In the land of Jasmine flowers.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for nagaland, indian languages, hindi words, commonwealth games 2010, and jasmine.
Where did they come from?
- 85.7% India
- 2.3% United Arab Emirates
- 1.4% Pakistan
- 1.3% Philippines
- 1.2% Malaysia
- 90.3% The United States
- 8.1% Canada
- 0.5% Mexico
- 0.5% Trinidad and Tobago
- 0.2% Puerto Rico
- 22.5% The United Kingdom
- 10.1% Russia
- 8.7% Poland
- 7.1% France
- 7.1% Germany
- 84.2% Australia
- 15.8% New Zealand
- 28.4% Ethiopia
- 13.7% South Africa
- 13.7% Mauritania
- 11.6% Egypt
- 10.5% Nigeria
- 33.8% Brazil
- 30.8% Venezuela
- 10.8% Argentina
- 9.2% Chile
- 6.2% Ecuador
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Confessions of a Linguist! in 2011.
- 1 Survival Phrases in Tamil: In the land of Jasmine flowers 3 comments March 2010
- 2 Survival Phrases in Nagamese: the Lingua Franca of Nagaland 31 comments June 2008
- 3 Andaman's Best beaches 2 comments July 2007
- 4 भाषाई विविधता और ज्ञानपोषित समाज 0 comments October 2008
- 5 Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Theme Song by A R Rahman 5 comments August 2010
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2011 was Some Great Facilities for Travelers Coming to Delhi
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: