(Brendan)
On July 9, 2007 I started off this blog with an "under construction" post, and followed the next day with our first official post (which is permanently linked in the upper right of the blog, under "New to this blog?"). We've been amazed at the readership our little blog has generated and have been blessed by the experience of sharing our thoughts online and getting feedback from others. Here's some numbers from our first year:
Number of posts: 126
Site Visits: 14,419
Page Views: 25,298
Number of U.S. states with visitors: 50
Number of countries with visitors: 105
It's that last one that blows me away. Here's a diagram of the countries with visitors to our blog, along with a list (the darker color is the majority of our visitors, the U.S.):
Argentina
Antigua and Barbuda
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Columbia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guam
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Palestinian Territory
Peru
Phillipines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saint Helena
Saudi Arabia
Serbia and Montenegro
Singapore
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
When I just try to imagine someone in the Palestinian Territories, or Iran, or Mozambique, or Yemen, or Ghana pulling up our blog on a computer screen, I just amazes me. Even the fact that we've had visitors from all 50 U.S. states is fantastic. Not too bad for a blog that, honestly, was started just to keep family and friends up to date on our home project.
Looking back over the past year, I tried to think of my favorite post, and decided on this one:
The Domestic Church: Are Large Families Harmful to the Environment?
This is one of the many ways that I feel that God has used this blog for the "new evangelization." Case in point, if you search in Google on a phrase such as "Large families environment" or "large families harmful environment" or the like, the post I linked above appears on the first page of the results, and in some cases at the very top. Praise the Lord! Knowing that someone researching this question has a decent chance of ending up at that post and reading it (amidst dozens of other sites claiming the world is "overpopulated" and that children are bad for the environment) gives me great satisfaction and hope that such a person would be led to the truth.
Molly's favorite post from the last year was:
The Domestic Church: To "Santa" or not to "Santa"...
This ended up being (just by a hair) the most commented post of the year. The fact that one commenter compared parts of the post to the "Byzantine iconoclastic heresy" was quite entertaining :-)
Just to close, on behalf of Molly and myself, thanks so much for participating in our blog and we hope you continue to read! By this time next year our house will be half-way through construction!
On July 9, 2007 I started off this blog with an "under construction" post, and followed the next day with our first official post (which is permanently linked in the upper right of the blog, under "New to this blog?"). We've been amazed at the readership our little blog has generated and have been blessed by the experience of sharing our thoughts online and getting feedback from others. Here's some numbers from our first year:
Number of posts: 126
Site Visits: 14,419
Page Views: 25,298
Number of U.S. states with visitors: 50
Number of countries with visitors: 105
It's that last one that blows me away. Here's a diagram of the countries with visitors to our blog, along with a list (the darker color is the majority of our visitors, the U.S.):
ArgentinaAntigua and Barbuda
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Columbia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guam
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Palestinian Territory
Peru
Phillipines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saint Helena
Saudi Arabia
Serbia and Montenegro
Singapore
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
When I just try to imagine someone in the Palestinian Territories, or Iran, or Mozambique, or Yemen, or Ghana pulling up our blog on a computer screen, I just amazes me. Even the fact that we've had visitors from all 50 U.S. states is fantastic. Not too bad for a blog that, honestly, was started just to keep family and friends up to date on our home project.
Looking back over the past year, I tried to think of my favorite post, and decided on this one:
The Domestic Church: Are Large Families Harmful to the Environment?
This is one of the many ways that I feel that God has used this blog for the "new evangelization." Case in point, if you search in Google on a phrase such as "Large families environment" or "large families harmful environment" or the like, the post I linked above appears on the first page of the results, and in some cases at the very top. Praise the Lord! Knowing that someone researching this question has a decent chance of ending up at that post and reading it (amidst dozens of other sites claiming the world is "overpopulated" and that children are bad for the environment) gives me great satisfaction and hope that such a person would be led to the truth.
Molly's favorite post from the last year was:
The Domestic Church: To "Santa" or not to "Santa"...
This ended up being (just by a hair) the most commented post of the year. The fact that one commenter compared parts of the post to the "Byzantine iconoclastic heresy" was quite entertaining :-)
Just to close, on behalf of Molly and myself, thanks so much for participating in our blog and we hope you continue to read! By this time next year our house will be half-way through construction!
No comments:
Post a Comment