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The Next Grand Minimum
2012 in blogging
Annual Report
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About the fireworks
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on The Next Grand Minimum’s activity in 2012. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 90,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2012, there were 153 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 259 posts. There were 104 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 26 MB. That's about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was November 13th with 1,329 views. The most popular post that day was Russians Scientists -- Next Little Ice Age Near.
Attractions in 2012
These are the posts that got the most views on The Next Grand Minimum in 2012.
- 1 Russians Scientists -- Next Little Ice Age Near 13 comments November 2012
- 2 Solar Cycle 25 and Next Grand Minimum 2 comments January 2012
- 3 We could be at the doorsteps of another Ice Age 3 comments May 2012
- 4 On the Cusp? -- England's Coldest May in 300 years 1 comment May 2012
- 5 NASA June 2012 Solar Cycle 24 Prediction - Lowest in 100Yrs 1 comment June 2012
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2012 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for solar cycle 25, next grand minimum, the next grand minimum, next ice age prediction, and maunder minimum 2012.
Where did they come from?
That's 134 countries in all!Most visitors came from The United States. The United Kingdom & Australia were not far behind.
See you in 2013
Thanks for flying with WordPress.com in 2012. We look forward to serving you again in 2013! Happy New Year!
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2012 was Russians Scientists -- Next Little Ice Age Near
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: