• TechCrunch 2010 In Review (Care Of WordPress)

    Michael Arrington

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    Monday, January 3rd, 2011

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

    Healthy blog!

    The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

    Crunchy numbers

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    The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 240,000,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 10,306 days for that many people to see it.

    In 2010, there were 9,624 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 27,041 posts.

    The busiest day of the year was August 11th with 1,950,634 views. The most popular post that day was Confirmed: HOPA Dry Erase Girl Is A Hoax, Identity Revealed.

    Where did they come from?

    The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, digg.com, Google Reader, news.ycombinator.com, and techmeme.com.

    Some visitors came searching, mostly for techcrunch, tech crunch, best iphone apps, htc evo, and youtube video downloader.

    Attractions in 2010

    These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

    1

    Confirmed: HOPA Dry Erase Girl Is A Hoax, Identity Revealed August 2010
    231 comments and 38 Likes on WordPress.com

    2

    YouTube Video Download Tool November 2006
    155 comments

    3

    Search March 2010

    4

    The 35 Best iPhone Apps Of The Year (So Far) August 2009
    272 comments

    5

    Firefox Just Perfected Tabbed Browsing. It’s Like Apple’s Expose Plus Spaces For The Web July 2010
    285 comments and 13 Likes on WordPress.com

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