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War and Game
2011 in blogging
Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
About the fireworks
Each rocket represents a post published on this blog in 2011. 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 War and Game’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 1,500,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 64 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 889 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 4,973 posts.
The busiest day of the year was January 25th with 8,812 views. The most popular post that day was KURSK: BATTLE OF PROKHOROVKA DIFFERING VIEWS.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for babylon, afrika korps, julius caesar, wolfsschanze, and war and game.
Where did they come from?
- 85.9% The United States
- 11.7% Canada
- 1.7% Mexico
- 0.1% Puerto Rico
- 0.1% Costa Rica
- 18.8% The United Kingdom
- 8.8% Germany
- 8.1% France
- 7.4% Spain
- 6.7% Italy
- 77.5% Australia
- 21.6% New Zealand
- 0.4% Guam
- 0.2% Fiji
- 0.1% French Polynesia
- 44.3% Brazil
- 26.4% Argentina
- 15.4% Chile
- 5.0% Colombia
- 2.9% Venezuela
- 13.8% Japan
- 12.4% India
- 11.7% Philippines
- 8.8% Indonesia
- 7.5% Malaysia
- 36.7% South Africa
- 23.7% Egypt
- 8.0% Tunisia
- 6.7% Algeria
- 6.6% Kenya
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on War and Game in 2011.
- 1 KURSK: BATTLE OF PROKHOROVKA DIFFERING VIEWS 0 comments August 2008
- 2 Greek Warriors 0 comments January 2010
- 3 BABYLON 0 comments September 2008
- 4 Sparta after the Persians 1 comment March 2010
- 5 RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR - THE REDS, THE BLACKS, THE GREENS 1 comment June 2009
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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