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Stoicism and the Art of Happiness

2014 in blogging

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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Stoicism and the Art of Happiness’s activity in 2014. You may start scrolling!

Crunchy numbers

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it.

There were 17 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 11 MB. That's about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was January 3rd with 2,040 views. The most popular post that day was Lorem Ipsum and the Meaning of Life.

Posting Patterns

In 2014, there were 36 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 211 posts.

Longest Streak

17 April - 19 April

Best Day

with 8 posts total

Attractions in 2014

These are the posts that got the most views on Stoicism and the Art of Happiness in 2014.

How did they find this blog?

The top referring sites in 2014 were:

  1. facebook.com
  2. reddit.com
  3. twitter.com
  4. farnamstreetblog.com
  5. joshkaufman.net

Where did they come from?

That's 167 countries in all!
Most visitors came from The United States. United Kingdom & Canada were not far behind.

Who were they?

The most commented on post in 2014 was Stoic Week 2014 Handbook (PDF) and MP3 Files

These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog:

  • 1 Susan Hayhurst 3 comments
  • 2 James 2 comments
  • 3 The Leather Library 1 comment
  • 4 swimoutfree 1 comment
  • 5 jonfinlay 1 comment

See you in 2015

Thanks for flying with WordPress.com in 2014. We look forward to serving you again in 2015! Happy New Year!

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