{"id":7195,"date":"2013-01-02T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2013-01-03T00:29:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T00:29:22","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!! :)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, this is technically a day late, but<\/p>\n

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! \ud83d\ude42<\/h2>\n

Since it’s a new year and all, I figured it might be fun to look over the year the was – for this blog. \u00a0First off, a tally of visits and pageviews per day:<\/p>\n

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Visits and pageviews per day for 2012. You can click on the image for a larger size.<\/p><\/div>\n

It does look like the blog has more visitors on average at the end of the year than it did at the beginning of the year, so yay! \u00a0Still, we’re talking maybe 10-15 additional peeps, so the numbers aren’t exactly staggering. \u00a0But still… at least someone still bothers to stop by once in a while.<\/p>\n

The huge peak there on 11 June 2012 is from when my brother N\u00f6kkvi and his lovely J\u00f3hanna got married<\/a>\u00a0(and I got to play ‘photographer’), and the smaller peaks correspond with events we’ve posted on Facebook and\/or Google+. \u00a0The pageviews follow the visitors trends, except when I post multiple pages over a short amount of time.<\/p>\n

Here’s a slightly clearer view of visitors vs. unique visitors, this time per week<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Visitors vs. unique visitors per week. Click on the image for a larger size.<\/p><\/div>\n

It does look like some new people came along in August and decided to stay (mostly). \u00a0All in all the system (Google Analytics<\/a>) recorded 3439 visitors, of which 76.59% visited more than once, which means some 2633 visitors visited more than once. \u00a0By the end of the year, we have about 130 unique visitors coming by every week. \u00a0That’s actually quite a lot of people! \u00a0(Hello there lurkers… \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

Now, where are all those people coming from? \u00a0Well, lets look at a map of the world, broken down by city:<\/p>\n

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Map of visits, per city. Click to get a larger version.<\/p><\/div>\n

Not surprisingly, the vast majority of our visitors come from Iceland, Reykjavik to be exact (and the home of the big Icelandic ISPs). \u00a0Visits from the top five cities qualify as ‘a visit a day’-cities (Reykjavik, San Jose, Copenhagen, Berkeley and Greenville) while the next two come pretty close (Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and Chatham (Hi Dad!)). \u00a0Rounding out the top ten cities are Christchurch, Horsens, and Boston. \u00a0 Hi all! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Just for kicks I zoomed in on the US cities as well:<\/p>\n

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Visits per US city. Click to see a larger image.<\/p><\/div>\n

Not surprisingly we seem to have quite a few visitors harking from Silicon Valley, our old stomping ground. \u00a0Also represented are old friends that have moved away from the Bay Area (I’m guessing) and\/or parents (moms!) of our US friends. \u00a0It’s lovely that you seem to care still. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So yes, that was the year 2012 from a blog point of view.<\/p>\n

I’m not making any promises for the future, but I seem to suffer from a tendency to over-share and a perverse need to document my life in words and pictures. \u00a0Linking back to events-that-were never stops being fun (although, it’s sad to see the age creep on), and lets face it, my memory isn’t what it used to be, so it feels even more important to write things down.<\/p>\n

Which basically means the blog lives to see yet another year, it’s thirteenth year of operation! \u00a0I hope it’s a good one! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, this is technically a day late, but HAPPY NEW YEAR!! \ud83d\ude42 Since it’s a new year and all, I figured it might be fun to look over the year the was – for this blog. \u00a0First off, a tally of visits and pageviews per day: It does look like the blog has more visitorsRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7207,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions\/7207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}