Work, Wine and Wheels 2010 review — courtesy of WordPress

Happy 2011 everyone! Hope all had a nice holiday break.  The folks at WordPress have been busy — see below for a nicely done “good job in 2010” email I received Sunday. (The image they chose below is the ABS unit in my 2001 BMW 530 – my biggest DIY money saver to date.)

I already knew this information via the Stats page (and some additional info as well via QuantCast), but I appreciate the recap email from the WordPress crew. With wordpress.com supporting hundreds of thousands of sites and receiving almost 39 million U.S. visitors per month, sending a customized email to each blog is a significant investment of time. Merry New Year to you WordPress, and thanks for a flexible, powerful and free platform! </intro>

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

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 75 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 199 posts. There were 136 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 18mb. That’s about 3 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was October 13th with 356 views. The most popular post that day was Part Two — Interview with Mike Miller.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were bimmerfest.com, forums.bimmerforums.com, m3forum.net, linkedin.com, and facebook.com.

A lot of visitors came searching, mostly for difference between saas and asp, do you feel lucky punk, bmw quality, saas vs asp, chris parente, and trends in government contracting.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Part Two — Interview with Mike Miller October 2010
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DIY the Answer to ABS Problem November 2008
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What’s the difference between SaaS and ASP? January 2008

BMW’s Quality Crisis August 2010
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E36 Circuit Switch DIY — The M3 Strikes Back February 2010