Well, 2010 is over; hope it was a good one for you. For those who may be interested, here are a few statistics about this blog from the past year…
Overview stats
24,887 Feedburner subscribers (plus another 886 e-mail subscribers)
- 268,975 visits
- 177,437 unique visitors (64.64% were new visitors)
- 491,102 pageviews
- 152,999 Compete traffic rank
- 153,974 Alexa traffic rank (USA)
- 393,504 Alexa traffic rank (global)
- 20 PostRank Education
- 5 Google PageRank
2010 posts that had the most unique pageviews last year
- Tools for school – Digital document annotation on an iPad, iPod Touch, or laptop (5,218)
- If we were really serious about educational technology (4,682)
- 12 videos to spark educators’ thinking (4,562)
- We can’t let educators off the hook (3,097)
- Videos – I hate my teacher (2,828)
Earlier posts that had the most unique pageviews last year
- Video – Did You Know? 4.0 (8,200)
- Don’t teach your kids this stuff. Please? (4,601)
- Bolman & Deal frameworks (4,193)
- Gone Fischin’ (2,813)
- Top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy school administrators (2,769)
2010 posts that generated the most comments
- We can’t let educators off the hook (139)
- Should students be allowed to use cell phones on all assignments and assessments? (82)
- Educators need learning advocacy, not technology advocacy (72)
- If we were really serious about educational technology (64)
- Why don’t we care about the Hindu kid? Or the Jewish employee? (62)
2010 posts that were shared the most on Twitter
- If we were really serious about educational technology (352)
- 12 videos to spark educators’ thinking (316)
- Calling all bloggers! – Leadership Day 2010 (249)
- We spend 80% of our classroom time on the skills needed for 10% of our jobs (153)
- We can’t let educators off the hook (143)
2010 posts that were shared the most on Facebook
- If we were really serious about educational technology (222)
- We spend 80% of our classroom time on the skills needed for 10% of our jobs (78)
- Video – Race to Nowhere trailer (54)
- We can’t let educators off the hook (53)
- Struggling with your dissertation? and Reclaiming the language [guest post] (50, tie)
Visitors who left the most comments (not including those who didn’t leave their full names)
- Mark Hauck
- Jerrid Kruse
- Carl Anderson
- Russ Goerend
- Gary Stager
I’m big in… (countries)
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- India
I’m big in… (cities)
- New York
- Sydney
- Chicago
- London
- Minneapolis
Top traffic sources
- Google / organic (23%)
- Direct (22%)
- Feedburner (11%)
- Google / referral (4%)
- Twitter (3%)
Browsers used by visitors
- Firefox (35%)
- Internet Explorer (31%)
- Safari (17%)
- Chrome (12%)
- Other (5%)
Operating systems used by visitors
- Windows
- Macintosh
- iPhone
- iPad
- Linux
It was a great year for me on the blog front. Thanks, everyone, for being loyal readers, active commenters, and helpful co-creators and sharers!
[oh, and check out Mind Dump; you might like that too!]