Blogiversary Bash: The Stats and More

Party Puppehs

Good day, friends! Thank you all so much for your kind words yesterday. It really does mean a lot. Eventually, I will find time to go back and respond to each one of you. It’s been a bit crazy around here with family coming into town, and I’m sure it will only get crazier. But I wanted to stick to the schedule I’d planned out because this is important to me. So here we go!

One year ago today, I started blogging! If you read my 6-Month Blogiverary post, you can see the details of what got me going here on WordPress, but the short version is this: I was disappointed by Man of Steel, and I wanted to share that opinion with you fine people. The rest is history! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: deciding to blog was one of the best things I’ve ever decided to do. This place is awesome, writing every day is awesome, and you guys are especially awesome.

Anyway, today’s post is nothing super special. It’s very similar to my 6-Month post in that it shares some of my stats, but I also added in a few other bits as well–a few posts and/or bloggers that I wanted to point out. Read on if you’re curious. 🙂

Number of…

Posts: 226 (More than double the number I had for my six-month post!)

Comments: 5,002 (Over FOUR TIMES MORE than what I had six months ago! Woah!)

Views: 28,029 (Again, over four times the views from six months ago! I am blown away!)

Followers: 271 (My loyal minions! You have more than doubled!)

 

My Readers Consist of…

51% Americans–a significant drop from the 71% of six months ago. What’s up, ‘Merica??

18% Brits–up from 15%! Jolly good!

4% Canadians–up from 1.8%, eh.

4% Germans–ach ja! Sehr gut, meinen freunden! You didn’t make the top four six months ago!

23% Hodgepodge–folks from allllll over!

The Popular Kids

Most likes: Resolutions 2014: Pan’s Labyrinth (All hail V, Queen of Thumbs Up!)

Most comments: Umm…actually the About section…*blushes* But after that, Devil’s Due

Most viewed (aside from Homepage/Archives): Resolutions 2014: Pulp Fiction (The interwebz CANNOT get enough of Pulp Fiction.)

 

The Search Is On

Most popular search phrases: “pulp fiction,” followed by “2001 a space odyssey (thank you, JJames Reviews),” followed by…”disappointment?!” Sigh…

Searches that win: “benedict cumberbatch r kelly rap” (this person knows what’s up…see here), “im intelligent and i hated don jon” (HA!), “oliver queen salmon ladder gif ” (YEP…see the end of this post), “levitt isn’t as smart as he thinks” (my Googlers are Levitt haters–noted), “tweet if you have 12 cumberbuns cumberbatch?” (Whaaaaaat?), “charlie bit my ginger chris hemsworth” (Chris Hemsworth is biting gingers?! God, I love typos…see this post to see what this person was getting at), “luke diaper star wars” (Bahaha what??)

Series Success

NOOOOvember 2013: 6 disgruntled guest bloggers vented about films that disappointed them

Resolutions 2014: 15 motivated guest bloggers fulfilled their film resolutions

April Fools 2014: 16 lovable guest bloggers talked about their favorite lovable idiots

 

Most Valuable Guest Bloggers

MovieRob, whom I would award 5 shiny gold stars for the whopping 5 reviews he sent for Resolutions 2014

The Verbal Spew, whom I would award 45 pugs for her write-up of Pan’s Labyrinth with 45 likes

Isaacs Picture Conclusions, Cinema Parrot Disco, Hard Ticket to Home Video, and JJames Reviews, whom I would award every flavor of Bertie’s Botts Every Flavor Beans for participating in every series I have done so far

The Sporadic Chronicles of a Beginner Blogger, whom I would award a Winter Soldier for sending me a post for Song and Screen mere days after I casually invited guests to partake

The Highlights (so far)

All things Miguel (see here, here, and here)

The Shitfest Socials

Texting during movies with my sister

Every Question of the Month from Oracle of Film

Discovering Celebrities Read Mean Tweets

MovieRob’s Genre Grandeur

This brilliant True Detective post

My top ten list for The Sporadic Chronicles of a Beginner Blogger

These Valentines

Cinema Parrot Disco’s John Hughes Blogathon

This list of Eric’s manly makeouts

Watching The Hunt for Alex Raphael’s Foreign Favorites series

The Screenkicker Podcast

My supervillain Guest List for The Cinema Monster

Emma Stone’s lip sync battle

This insane interview with The IPC

Becoming a little LAMB!

It is surprisingly difficult to find party lambs…

That’s all for today, but there’s SO MUCH MORE TO COME! Tomorrow, I’ll have a little post of my own paying homage to one of my favorite, and after that…well, you’ll see. 😉 Lots of celebrating going on here, people. Enjoy your weekend by celebrating, too!