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<\/p>\nIt’s a new year, so that means it’s time to take a look back at the previous year. In graphical form, it looks like this:<\/p>\n
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Clears it all up, doesn’t it? That’s the past year in blog traffic, showing pageviews per day. Integrate it all up, and it comes to 717,254 pageviews. That’s kind of mind-boggling, really. Even more mind-boggling is the fact that there have been 2,465,829 pageviews here since the move to ScienceBlogs in January 2006.<\/p>\n
So, what drew eyeballs this year? There were a total of 14 posts that drew more than 2,000 pageviews according to Google Analytics. In order, they were:<\/p>\n
Again: clears everything right up, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
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On the one hand, the two posts that I liked enough to add to the “Greatest Hits” sidebar, Science Is What Makes Us Human<\/a> and This Is<\/em> My Job<\/a>, were nowhere near the top 14, with 993 and 917 views, respectively. On the other hand, that’s a pretty decent list of stuff. OK, the top two are a bit of fluff and what’s most likely search engine catharsis, and a couple of them get a little ranty, but there’s some decent science content in there. Some of it is a little silly, but then, I’m currently promoting a book about talking to my dog<\/a>, so that seems fair enough.<\/p>\n What conclusions can we draw from this? Well, silly sells. Also, insulting famous people continues to work well (A.O. Scott Is an Ignoramus<\/a> was at 1,694 views, three spots off the list). There was less intra-blog squabbling this year than some past years, mostly because I was making a real effort to avoid reading the sorts of blogs that annoy me. I didn’t do much for ResearchBlogging this year, but nothing I did for them was even close.<\/p>\n Anyway, if you want to know what I did last year, blog-wise, there’s the executive summary. It’s fairly representative of what I usually post, so if you’re new here, and want to know what to expect, there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s a new year, so that means it’s time to take a look back at the previous year. In graphical form, it looks like this: Clears it all up, doesn’t it? That’s the past year in blog traffic, showing pageviews per day. Integrate it all up, and it comes to 717,254 pageviews. That’s kind of… Continue reading 2009: The Year In Blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}