And it’s a big hallo to our readers in Mongolia, and other facts about the Cedar Lounge Revolution’s year in blogging… December 31, 2014
Posted by WorldbyStorm in CLR empirebuilding.trackback
WordPress has a round-up of facts about its sites every December, and the one about the CLR has just arrived, and it’s kind of curious and intriguing.
First up, every day of the year bar Christmas Day at least one post was posted up (indeed the only day with 1 post was July 1st). Then there are ‘Attractions’, i.e. the posts which got the most views.
Number 1? The Top 400 Secondary Schools in Ireland, all the way from 2010.
Number 2? A Political Background to All the Independents elected in the Local Elections from IEL posted in May
Number 3? Tombuktu’s John Waters on Debate, the Media and the Truth from February.
Number 4? John Waters views on gay marriage. Clue: he’s not a fan, and it’s something to do with cycle lanes and wheel barrows. Seriously… from me, and posted in 2009! Nothing ever dies on the internet, or so it would seem.
Number 5! The Lia Fáil from doctor five, from this May.
As WordPress says, ‘Consider writing about those topics again’. Oh we will, we will.
Then there’s the question of how people found us. These are the ‘top referring sites’. No surprises there at one and two, and a big thank you to both politicalworld and ansionnachfionn.
twitter.com
facebook.com
WordPress.com Reader
What of where visitors are coming from? ‘181 countries in all’ so WordPress tells us, breathlessly. Ireland, the UK (both in six figures) and the US (five figures) in descending order. Much of Europe, Canada, Japan (healthy four figures) and then we slide into the three figures, that would be South Africa, New Zealand, Algeria, Brazil, Thailand. A handful from Cameroon, Honduras, and Papua New Guinea and yes, 4 from Mongolia. Angola and Togo, 1 apiece, as with Suriname.
Then ‘who were they?’, i.e. who commented? Here are the ‘five most active commenters’.
1 CL 665 COMMENTS
2 sonofstan 614 COMMENTS
3 MarkP 511 COMMENTS
4 CMK 458 COMMENTS
5 Liberius 455 COMMENTS
Congratulations to all the above and anyone who comments or has commented on the site. As always much appreciated. As are those who simply lurk. All welcome in whatever capacity. Happy New Year to you all.
The Cedar Lounge Revolution 
Don’t think league tables are particularly useful in this instance. I mean:
1 CL 665 COMMENTS
2 sonofstan 614 COMMENTS
3 MarkP 511 COMMENTS
4 CMK 458 COMMENTS
5 Liberius 455 COMMENTS
What do we learn from that eh? Quality not quantity, that’s what I say!
Anyway, Happy New Year to all. Keep her lit, WBS.
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🙂 And likewise Joe!
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I reckon about 33.3% of mine were corrections to previous comments due to typos and lask of an edit facility.
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‘lack’
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ho ho ho…
though I’ve searched in vain for an editing facility in wordpress. It’s really annoying.
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At a guess I’d say that a few dozen of my 455 comments are the result of a fastidious desire to correct myself, it can be a bit of a vice that. Still, 455 seems a touch excessive, I hope they were predominantly comments of good use to people, I’d hate to think I’ve been peppering CLR with unwarranted verbiage.
A resolution for 2015, I’ll endeavour to pre-emptively correct my comments. Bon voyage!
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I’m quite surprised to find myself on that list this year. I thought I was commenting less than usual!
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Makes me wonder what the stats were like the previous year! 🙂
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Mine tend to be a very high number over a period of a week when the sticks start to get cocky and then nothing for about a month when some convoluted theory is being discussed !
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Happy New Year folks. Thanks for the comradeship.
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Happy New Year everyone. Any New Year’s revolutions? 🙂
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🙂
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