Running the Numbers

I don’t know about you, but I love Google Analytics.

I love seeing how many people visit this site. I love seeing what countries/states they’re visiting from. It’s so cool for me to see visits from all over the world on a little map!

Another thing that I love Google Analytics for is being able to see what are the most popular posts. The numbers last year aren’t looking nearly as good as this year, which I hoped would be the case, especially since I’m writing more! But I’m always curious to see what posts are read the most. I plan on doing this yearly, just now getting to it for 2010 and 2011 (because the idea came to me this week). 🙂

A little background on the blog:
– Domain was purchased 3/6/2010 (that’s a little over 2 years ago! Happy belated blog birthday to me!)
– The first post was made on 6/6/2010 (exactly 3 months after purchasing the domain – it took me a little while to become inspired), two years ago today!

2010:
– Total Site Visits: 234 Visits
– Unique Site Visitors: 177 Unique Visitors
– Total Posts Written: 7
– Total Page Views: 384 Page views
– Average Page Views per Visit: 1.64 Pages/Visit
– Avg. Visit Duration: 1:30

And the numbers for 2011:
– Total Site Visits: 1,714 Visits
– Unique Site Visitors: 1,272 Unique Visitors
– Total Posts Written: 30
– Total Page Views: 2,679 Page views
– Average Page Views per Visit: 1.56 Pages/Visit
– Avg. Visit Duration: 1:26

Top 5 Posts in 2011 (in case you weren’t around to see ’em the first time!):
– The Price is Wrong, b!#*%… Part 1 (105 views / 100 unique)
– Letters to William, Kate and the Media (100 views / 97 unique)
– Travel Inspired by the Bachelor (81 views / 74 unique)
– Helping Others Feels Good (81 views / 78 unique)
– Happy to be Here in the Now with Him (79 views / 73 unique)

Funny enough, Part 1 of The Price is Right posts had more views than Part 2, which completed the story!

It’s been fun blogging again. Back in the day (2001-2003), I would blog on my personal site or on LiveJournal. Another fun fact, this isn’t my first domain. It’s my 4th. 🙂 Maybe one day I’ll do a flash back post to them, but for now we’ll keep those under wraps.

I do appreciate all my readers and commenters and hope that you’re enjoying what you’re reading! Here’s to a great 3rd year of blogging!

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