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NYC: The City That Needs to Sleep
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on NYC: The City That Needs to Sleep’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 9,600 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 70 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 251 posts. There were 31 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 17mb. That's about 3 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was September 9th with 91 views. The most popular post that day was Cromer mayor still haunted by memories of 9/11.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for elderhostel, elderhostel nyc, elderhostel new york city, elder hostel nyc, and elder hostel new york city.
Where did they come from?
- 88.9% The United States
- 9.7% Canada
- 0.4% Panama
- 0.3% Dominican Republic
- 0.2% Mexico
- 52.3% The United Kingdom
- 8.2% IE
- 7.3% Germany
- 5.2% Netherlands
- 4.4% France
- 93.8% Australia
- 6.2% New Zealand
- 69.2% Brazil
- 12.8% Chile
- 12.8% Argentina
- 2.6% Ecuador
- 2.6% Colombia
- 19.0% Pakistan
- 9.5% Singapore
- 9.5% Indonesia
- 9.5% China
- 9.5% Japan
- 62.5% South Africa
- 25.0% Nigeria
- 12.5% Mauritius
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on NYC: The City That Needs to Sleep in 2011.
- 1 Cromer mayor still haunted by memories of 9/11 September 2011
- 2 Budget Travel: ‘Elderhostel' is now ‘Exploritas' - and greatly changed October 2009
- 3 NYC's Railroad Park Offers Fantastic View of the New Yorker Hotel June 2011
- 4 Muhammad Ali Stayed in a 25th Floor Suite at the New Yorker Hotel November 2011
- 5 @kellyonthebrink - YOU Are This Week's #twotels Winner! November 2011
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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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2011 was The New Yorker Hotel in In-spireLS Magazine
This was the most active commenter on this blog: