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A View from the Back Porch

2014 in blogging

Happy New Year from WordPress.com!

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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on A View from the Back Porch’s activity in 2014. You may start scrolling!

Crunchy numbers

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 18 trips to carry that many people.

There were 78 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 57 MB. That's about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was July 22nd with 58 views. The most popular post that day was About Doug Davis.

Posting Patterns

In 2014, there were 16 new posts, not bad for the first year!

Longest Streak

2 days

22 July - 23 July

Best Day

Tuesday

with 6 posts total

Attractions in 2014

These are the posts that got the most views on A View from the Back Porch in 2014.

How did they find this blog?

The top referring sites in 2014 were:

  1. facebook.com
  2. elmwriters.wordpress.com
  3. web.mail.comcast.net
  4. patsykuipers.wordpress.com

Where did they come from?

That's 12 countries in all!
Most visitors came from The United States. Australia & France were not far behind.

Who were they?

The most commented on post in 2014 was Gullies on the Soul

These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog:

  • 1 joshlangston 7 comments
  • 2 George 4 comments
  • 3 polint 4 comments
  • 4 Your Evil Twin 3 comments
  • 5 Ann Myers 3 comments

See you in 2015

Thanks for flying with WordPress.com in 2014. We look forward to serving you again in 2015! Happy New Year!

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