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2011 in blogging
Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
About the fireworks
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on *NIX Tricks’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 62,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 10 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 87 posts. There was 1 picture uploaded, taking a total of 197kb.
The busiest day of the year was December 7th with 329 views. The most popular post that day was [latex] Crop, resize and rotate figures in LaTeX.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for latex rotate figure, grep and, latex multiple figures, and grep and or.
Where did they come from?
- 85.4% The United States
- 10.8% Canada
- 2.2% Mexico
- 0.9% Guadeloupe
- 0.2% Dominican Republic
- 17.8% The United Kingdom
- 15.6% Germany
- 8.2% France
- 6.5% Netherlands
- 5.3% Italy
- 41.8% India
- 8.0% Indonesia
- 5.0% Japan
- 4.9% Malaysia
- 4.7% South Korea
- 83.4% Australia
- 15.9% New Zealand
- 0.3% Tonga
- 0.2% Fiji
- 49.1% Brazil
- 15.4% Argentina
- 14.8% Colombia
- 11.2% Chile
- 3.9% Venezuela
- 38.2% South Africa
- 13.7% Egypt
- 9.9% Kenya
- 6.5% Morocco
- 5.7% Nigeria
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on *NIX Tricks in 2011.
- 1 [latex] Crop, resize and rotate figures in LaTeX 3 comments October 2009
- 2 [ubuntu] Unlock /var/lib/dpkg/lock when you're locked out 13 comments October 2009
- 3 [latex] Multiple figures under the same caption using ``subfigure'' 5 comments November 2009
- 4 [grep] AND, OR, and "these" but NOT "those" 3 comments September 2009
- 5 [mutt] Multiple email accounts using hooks 16 comments May 2010
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 [csh] Simple loops in csh or tcsh
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: