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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 Ohio Historical Society Collections Blog’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 41,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 15 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 146 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 519 posts. There were 218 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 83 MB. That's about 4 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was February 11th with 572 views. The most popular post that day was I Found it In the Archives - Finalist #1.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for abraham lincoln, ohio historical society collections blog, ohio historical society, and archives.
Where did they come from?
- 96.9% The United States
- 2.8% Canada
- 0.2% Mexico
- 0.0% Costa Rica
- 0.0% Bermuda
- 29.8% The United Kingdom
- 11.3% Germany
- 6.8% Netherlands
- 6.3% France
- 5.5% Italy
- 86.1% Australia
- 11.9% New Zealand
- 1.0% Fiji
- 1.0% New Caledonia
- 25.9% South Korea
- 16.3% Philippines
- 13.3% India
- 6.1% Indonesia
- 5.4% Singapore
- 51.2% Brazil
- 14.6% Chile
- 14.6% Argentina
- 12.2% Peru
- 4.9% Colombia
- 51.7% South Africa
- 17.2% Egypt
- 10.3% Kenya
- 3.4% Tanzania
- 3.4% Nigeria
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Ohio Historical Society Collections Blog in 2011.
- 1 I Found it In the Archives - Finalist #1 1 comment February 2011
- 2 Remembering the Challenger 0 comments January 2011
- 3 Time to Vote! I Found it in the Archives 3 comments February 2011
- 4 History influencing Pop Culture and strange archival discoverires. 1 comment August 2011
- 5 Mental Health Records: An Introduction for Researchers 2 comments March 2011
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2011 was Why Don't People Smile in Old Photographs?
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: