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It Started with Hangul
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on It Started with Hangul’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 390,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 17 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 28 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 226 posts. There were 28 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 3 MB. That's about 2 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was November 30th with 3,051 views. The most popular post that day was Handy Expressions.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for i miss you in korean, korean numbers, happy birthday in korean, saranghae hangul, and i love you in korean.
Where did they come from?
- 83.5% The United States
- 13.7% Canada
- 1.6% Mexico
- 0.4% Puerto Rico
- 0.1% Jamaica
- 36.3% Philippines
- 15.5% Malaysia
- 15.0% Singapore
- 12.1% Indonesia
- 7.7% South Korea
- 85.2% Australia
- 12.4% New Zealand
- 1.3% Guam
- 0.6% Northern Mariana Islands
- 0.2% French Polynesia
- 26.2% United Kingdom
- 9.4% Germany
- 7.5% France
- 6.0% Romania
- 4.5% Spain
- 45.9% Brazil
- 15.6% Peru
- 11.6% Chile
- 10.2% Argentina
- 7.9% Colombia
- 26.2% Egypt
- 20.4% Morocco
- 16.5% Tunisia
- 10.7% Algeria
- 8.9% South Africa
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on It Started with Hangul in 2011.
- 1 Handy Expressions 60 comments
- 2 I Miss You in Korean 229 comments October 2008
- 3 I Love You in Korean 259 comments October 2008
- 4 Korean Numbers 122 comments
- 5 Korean Dictionary - 한국어 사전 426 comments
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 Handy Expressions
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: