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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 The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World’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 24,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 254 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 263 posts. There were 420 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 45 MB. That's about a picture per day.
The busiest day of the year was October 21st with 234 views. The most popular post that day was Friday Varia and Quick Hits.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for historiography syllabus, new archaeology of the mediterranean world, and north dakota oil boom map.
Where did they come from?
- 85.2% The United States
- 14.5% Canada
- 0.1% Mexico
- 0.1% Netherlands Antilles
- 0.0% Panama
- 28.3% Greece
- 22.9% United Kingdom
- 8.3% Germany
- 7.1% Italy
- 5.7% Cyprus
- 96.9% Australia
- 3.1% New Zealand
- 34.3% Japan
- 13.7% India
- 6.9% Philippines
- 5.2% Thailand
- 5.2% Israel
- 57.1% Brazil
- 17.9% Argentina
- 10.7% Peru
- 10.7% Chile
- 3.6% Colombia
- 31.8% South Africa
- 18.2% Egypt
- 9.1% Kenya
- 9.1% Zimbabwe
- 9.1% Morocco
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World in 2011.
- 1 Friday Varia and Quick Hits 0 comments October 2011
- 2 Archaeology and Man-camps in Western North Dakota 0 comments January 2011
- 3 Teaching Graduate Historiography: A Final Syllabus 1 comment January 2011
- 4 The Process of Christianization in the Greek Islands 3 comments November 2011
- 5 Lists and Ranking of Archaeology Journals 7 comments May 2011
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2011 was Lists and Ranking of Archaeology Journals
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: