Thank you for all your support in 2010. Here is to an even better 2011!
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 38,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 115 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 162 posts. There were 187 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 228mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was December 7th with 2,124 views. The most popular post that day was Brothels, Baths and Babes: Prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were metafilter.com, Google Reader, facebook.com, mail.yahoo.com, and twitter.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for bettany hughes, byzantine, bethany hughes, crusades, and san vitale ravenna.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Brothels, Baths and Babes: Prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land August 2010
1 comment and 3 Likes on WordPress.com
The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge and Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades by Jonathan Phillips January 2010
5 comments
Saint George’s Day – Some Icons April 2010
1 comment
Mosaic Hunting in Northern Italy October 2009
1 comment
Nineteenth Annual Runciman Lecture – Byzantine Architecture reconfigured in early Islamic Syria February 2010
6 comments
Byzantine Blog 