My 2011 year in blogging…

On Saturday, December 31, 2011 2:23 PM (or the inverse timestamp of 322 for the Skull and Bones society), I received an email about [My] Annual Report from WordPress.com. It is “[My] 2011 in blogging. [Their] stats helper monkeys have been busy putting together a personalized report detailing how [my] blog did in 2011! Here’s a sneak peek”: http://thebloggingpath.com/2011/annual-report/

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2011 in blogging

Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on your blog’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 18,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

In 2011, there were 2,205 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 9,352 posts. There were 826 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 113mb. That’s about 2 pictures per day.

The busiest day of the year was August 20th with 365 views. The most popular post that day was Security update and 15% off upgrade coupon from WordPress.com.
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How did they find you?

The top referring sites in 2011 were:

wordpress.com
en.wordpress.com
dailypost.wordpress.com Following
facebook.com
uwantson.com

Some visitors came searching, mostly for birthday cards, benito mussolini, ophiuchus symbol, and ophiuchus sign.
Where did they come from?
Most visitors came from The United States. The United Kingdom & Philippines were not far behind.
Who were they?

Your most commented on post in 2011 was Deleting pages…

These were your 5 most active commenters:

1 John Jr 393 comments Following
2 John Jr 151 comments
3 Donna Carrillo 43 comments
4 digitalangeldonnadj 21 comments
5 postadaychallenge2011 8 comments Following

Perhaps you could follow their blog or send them a thank you note?
Attractions in 2011

These are the posts that got the most views in 2011. You can see all of the year’s most-viewed posts in your Site Stats.

1 Security update and 15% off upgrade coupon from WordPress.com 9 comments August 2011
2 20091201-Prayer Journal 0 comments December 2009
3 Snake Sign 0 comments June 2010
4 20090625-Politically Socialist 2 comments June 2009
5 New Domain 0 comments August 2010

Some of your most popular posts were written before 2011. Your writing has staying power! Consider writing about those topics again.
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See you in 2012

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  1. Hi, John Jr and thanks for the latest update(s)! I submitted to "Request Report Deletion" for the https[:]//hybrid-analysis[.]com/sample/[Free Automated Malware…

  2. Hi, John Jr. I submitted my email to report[at]scamadviser[.]com moments ago and the form via scamadviser[.]com[/]contact a few minutes earlier,…

  3. Oh, John Jr! That's longer than I would ever imagine, especially for your conditions! So I shouldn't rant like this…

  4. That is unfortunate, Flynn. I also hate how they try to cram as many patients as they can. The waiting…

  5. True, I forget but that's probably allowed if you upgrade your plan from free. My bad!😥 😂

  6. What you could do is sample the designs from other themes and plug those into your favorite theme. For example,…

  7. After cooking dessert, eating dinner, I spend the rest of the night going through free themes that seem to have…

  8. I just liked this comment and I'm testing this reply. Thanks for subscribing, John Jr! I saw the Jetpack app…

  9. I just unsubscribed and resubscribed to get posts and comments by email & notifications, from the WordPress.com Reader, hopefully that…

  10. Okay, I queried LEO AI/Brave, which said "By default, only the site administrator and the article author receive notifications for…

  11. The search continues. 🔎 Now I know that I am not imagining things. I did not get a notification or…

  12. You are funny indeed, John Jr! We will never know. You know, if something "clicks", you just know that's the…

  13. I briefly tried Dyad 2, but the faded font and messed up color schemes in the footer and maybe a…

  14. Agh, this is mysterious! I don't know what's going on. I'll probably have to investigate. I guess I should try…

  15. Ah, there you go again: I'll try theme Twenty Twenty-Five (again later on)! Yeah, theme Nook feels like an old-timey…

  16. Nice, out of the new themes, Nook is one of my favorite, with its somewhat old style design, but still…

  17. Welcome back, John Jr. I'm assuming this was done after I Deactivated the Jetpack Newsletter feature back to Default. That's…

  18. Hello Flynn, I noticed that you had not posted in a while. Then I realized that magically I was unsubscribed.…

  19. I kinda sorta just don't wanna. But I have no choice! Thanks again John Jr! I actually haven't even tried…

  20. Oh, gosh darn-it, John Jr! Thank you for your honesty because I had NO idea whatsoever that was happening! The…

  21. Oh, yeah! I thought that I was the only one that saw that message! Interesting! That's good to know, John…

  22. Yes, I got the links and wasn't sure/cannot recall if I didn't/did setup the dashboard Discussion settings to allow comment…

  23. Thank you Flynn, I might remove the Pages widget to bring it down to 2. :D I am also replying…

  24. Yes, John Jr, I believe you have your primary menu/pages widget in the header above, in the footer below and…

  25. Hello Flynn, Yep, mobile devices do seem to be the main focus. Yeah, most default WordPress themes could use more…

  26. Hi John Jr, I assume/believe the general trend would lean/is probably geared towards those who use mobile devices, especially for…

  27. Hello Flynn, I also had reset my templates in Twenty Twenty Five, which is why I had to spend so…

  28. Hi, John Jr. Yes, the various Theme 2025 templates are okay as Default, in my opinion. I've edited these Default…

  29. Hello Flynn, congratulations on finding the Blog Home template, last night or the night before, you inspired me to try…

  30. What I like about Twenty Twenty-Five are the eight style variations (besides the default) to change the look of the…

  31. Hello Flynn, the defaults and limitations of themes annoys me too. Dark themes are too gloomy and somewhat more difficult…

  32. Oh, now, I may/will need you "help" to setup my desktop using only Linux and such. Could you show me…

  33. Yeah, things have been dead for several years now, it feels like blogging is dying, I miss the community. Speaking…

  34. Nice, no problem, and thank you, Flynn. I was partly holding off on testing the Twenty Twenty Five theme again…

  35. Yeah, I miss the old days of having more followers and commenters like you and free stuff for everyone, too!

  36. Hey, John Jr! Wait! I was borrowing/stealing your ideas to put the Latests Latest Comments AND the Top Posts &…

  37. Nice, your blog's appearance / setup up is improving, Flynn. It is getting easier to read, find things, et cetera.…

  38. The full site editor themes got confusing, more limited in their base form, more difficult to adjust, more difficult to…


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Howdy! I’m FLYNN, a blogger based in San Jose, California. I graduated long ago and have been studying humanity and its failures. It is my hope that one day everyone will repent. Amen.