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9:44am on Monday, 3rd January, 2011:

Last Year's Posts

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Last year, I gave a brief overview of QBlog's top posts from 2009. Here's the same kind of thing for 2010.

There were 53,887 visits altogether, which is down on last year. Blogs are old hat now (people prefer Facebook and Twitter), so I'm not entirely surprised by this. I expect it will continue dropping until I drop it.

There were three major spikes:

• 21^st March, 342 visits — a complaint about The Observer's inability to find a virtual world expert to talk about virtual worlds.
• 7^th May, 350 visits — the JavaScript game I wrote, Fusion.
• 20^th August, 263 visits — how to tell gays from non-gays in the 1970s.

Those wouldn't even have qualified as spikes last year, mind you.

There were two other posts that stuck their heads up noticeably higher than the rest:

• 21^st June, 224 visits — my summary of a Facebook event I attended.
• 4^th December, 220 visits — my elder daughter's beetroot hair.

So, the lessons for this year are that if I want to attract more visitors I should insult newspaper contributors, support gays, disparage Facebook, mention family members who have more friends than I do, and write games.

Hey, I actually can write games! Maybe I'll do some more of that if I ever manage to finish marking these assignments (they're taking me 2-3 hours each, which is much longer than I was expecting — I've only managed 4 so far).

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