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2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on American Teacher’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 21,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 3 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 33 posts. There were 2 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 120kb.
The busiest day of the year was February 19th with 292 views. The most popular post that day was Need some creative ideas!.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for teaching in abu dhabi, teaching in abu dhabi blog, teach in abu dhabi, and teaching english in abu dhabi.
Where did they come from?
- 86.5% The United States
- 12.8% Canada
- 0.3% Mexico
- 0.1% Jamaica
- 0.1% Barbados
- 61.4% United Arab Emirates
- 11.5% South Korea
- 7.5% India
- 3.5% Pakistan
- 2.5% Philippines
- 54.9% The United Kingdom
- 6.6% IE
- 3.6% Iceland
- 3.4% Spain
- 3.1% Italy
- 66.5% Australia
- 30.9% New Zealand
- 1.6% Guam
- 1.0% Northern Mariana Islands
- 39.8% South Africa
- 10.8% Egypt
- 9.6% Ethiopia
- 9.6% Senegal
- 7.2% Ghana
- 41.0% Argentina
- 28.2% Brazil
- 7.7% Peru
- 7.7% Ecuador
- 5.1% Chile
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on American Teacher in 2011.
- 1 Need some creative ideas! 5 comments February 2011
- 2 FAQ 13 comments March 2010
- 3 My First Week of School 11 comments September 2009
- 4 It's winter in the UAE 8 comments January 2010
- 5 Tell Me About the Good Old Days 6 comments February 2011
See you in 2012
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2011 was Tell Me About the Good Old Days
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: