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Tennis Abides
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Tennis Abides’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 27,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 77 new posts, not bad for the first year!
The busiest day of the year was September 22nd with 456 views. The most popular post that day was Rafael Nadal Labor Leader?.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for tennis abides, dan martin tennis, guga hall of fame, federer second most trusted, and john isner top 10.
Where did they come from?
- 98.8% The United States
- 1.1% Canada
- 0.1% Mexico
- 0.0% Costa Rica
- 0.0% Trinidad and Tobago
- 27.7% The United Kingdom
- 25.4% France
- 11.5% Netherlands
- 3.3% Hungary
- 3.3% Switzerland
- 26.8% India
- 10.4% Philippines
- 9.8% Thailand
- 9.3% Singapore
- 6.6% Malaysia
- 94.9% Australia
- 5.1% New Zealand
- 50.0% Brazil
- 18.4% Argentina
- 13.2% Colombia
- 10.5% Peru
- 5.3% Chile
- 52.2% Tunisia
- 26.1% South Africa
- 8.7% Nigeria
- 8.7% Egypt
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Tennis Abides in 2011.
- 1 Rafael Nadal Labor Leader? 2 comments September 2011
- 2 Lendl and Sampras' Impact on Federer's 6 Year End Championships 5 comments November 2011
- 3 Sam Stosur and the GOAT Debate (Steffi and Serena) 0 comments September 2011
- 4 Roger Federer Ranked Second ... Most Trusted and Respected Public Figure? 2 comments September 2011
- 5 Review of 'Unmatched' ESPN's 30 for 30 0 comments September 2011
See you in 2012
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We look forward to serving you again in 2012! Happy New Year!
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2011 was Davis Cup Semifinal Predicitons
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: