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2012 in blogging

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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Common Sense’s activity in 2012. You may start scrolling!

Crunchy numbers

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,600 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 8 years to get that many views.

In 2012, there were 226 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 260 posts. There were 159 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 11 MB. That's about 3 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was April 18th with 131 views. The most popular post that day was Reblog: Barack's Big Candy Mountain...Parody Video.

Attractions in 2012

These are the posts that got the most views on Common Sense in 2012.

How did they find this blog?

Some visitors came searching, mostly for baracks big candy mountain, barack's big candy mountain, cost of living, and baracks candy mountain.

Where did they come from?

That's 72 countries in all!
Most visitors came from The United States. United Kingdom & Canada were not far behind.

Who were they?

The most commented on post in 2012 was About

These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog:

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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