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Art and Faith
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Art and Faith’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 540,000 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it would take about 7 sold-out events for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 218 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 3,217 posts. There were 256 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 58mb. That's about 5 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was October 23rd with 11,372 views. The most popular post that day was Ilya Glazunov. Eternal Russia. 1988.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for ilya glazunov, spring, ilya repin, ivan aivazovsky, and marc chagall.
Where did they come from?
- 84.4% The United States
- 12.3% Canada
- 2.3% Mexico
- 0.2% Guatemala
- 0.1% Puerto Rico
- 14.4% The United Kingdom
- 8.1% Russia
- 5.9% Italy
- 5.6% France
- 5.5% Spain
- 19.2% India
- 12.7% Japan
- 7.6% Philippines
- 7.0% Indonesia
- 6.2% Vietnam
- 85.0% Australia
- 14.2% New Zealand
- 0.3% Guam
- 0.2% New Caledonia
- 0.2% Northern Mariana Islands
- 52.2% Brazil
- 19.5% Argentina
- 9.6% Chile
- 6.1% Colombia
- 5.3% Peru
- 45.0% Egypt
- 27.0% South Africa
- 5.3% Mauritius
- 3.5% Tunisia
- 3.5% Morocco
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Art and Faith in 2011.
- 1 Ilya Glazunov. Eternal Russia. 1988 November 2008
- 2 Vasili Golinsky. The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. undated (1890s-1900s) April 2010
- 3 Meet the Artist: Ilya Yefimovich Repin May 2008
- 4 Nikolai Koshelev. The Head of Christ. 1880s. April 2008
- 5 Marc Chagall. Wedding. 1918 June 2008
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?
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