The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
There are about 1 million books published worldwide per year. This blog was viewed about 4,000,000 times in 2010. That’s about 4 times as much as the total number of books published in 2010
In 2010, there were 97 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 355 posts. There were 65 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 59mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was November 4th with 1,495,250 views. The most popular post that day was My son is gay.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, reddit.com, FARK.com, well.blogs.nytimes.com, and stumbleupon.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for nerdy apple bottom, my son is gay, nerdyapplebottom, nerdy apple bottoms, and my son is gay blog.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
My son is gay November 2010
45649 comments and 2455 Likes on WordPress.com
Facebook Friday October 2010
579 comments and 34 Likes on WordPress.com
Rap Sheet November 2009
349 comments
Modus Operandi January 2010
56 comments
Summer Fun October 2010
62 comments and 4 Likes on WordPress.com
So I had a pretty good year. At least according to WordPress. Thanks to all of you out there that have been so kind and supportive this year. Made it all worth it!
I got about 2500 page views in too months on mine, which I’m proud of. One and a half million though… yikes!
Like everyone above, I enjoyed the post about your son. It was adorable.
Congrats! I’m glad so many people read your enlightening post about your son.
Hey! Have you seen this? It reminded me of you!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/204120/nbc-today-show-my-son-likes-to-wear-dresses-big-deal
If I’m not mistaken, Cop’s Wife was on the Today Show with this mom in Nov., yes?
I, too, was one of your 46,000+ commenters about the darling boy in the Daphne costume! I’m honored to have contributed to the count!!
Wow …. you did well!!!
Amazing what one post can do!
Hopefully your life is settling back down into normality.
Congrats! And well deserved.
Happy New Year to you and yours. Your simple, straightforward and honest mom post was an incredibly important conversation OF THE DECADE. You deserve the attention it got (the positive stuff, anyway) and furthered an incredibly important conversation about acceptance, terrific parenting and love. xox. (and wow!!! 45,649 comments … I checked again on December 10th or so and they keep rolling in. Encroyable!
karen in Vancouver, Canada.
I’m happy to have been one of the 45,649 comments!
Have you read them all yet, or is this going to take a few more months?
It is definitely going to take me a while. ;)