The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 240,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 10 days for that many people to see it.
In 2013, there were 252 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,091 posts. There were 14 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 4 MB. That’s about a picture per month. (We should have more pretty pictures!)
The busiest day of the year was June 24th with 1,209 views. The most popular post that day was Expanded ramblings on extreme living.
Attractions in 2013
These are the posts that got the most views in 2013.
- 1 Mr. Money Moustache vs. Laura Vanderkam 69 comments December 2012
- 2 Ask the Grumpies: TIAA-Cref vs. Vanguard Lifecycle funds 8 comments January 2013
- 3 You know you’re in the South when… 59 comments July 2011
- 4 Stupid “opinions” on gifted kids 48 comments May 2013
- 5 Ask the Grumpies: Should I get a PhD in Accounting? 23 comments March 2013
Some of your most popular posts were written before 2013. Your writing has staying power!
How did they find you?
The top referring sites in 2013 were (we love you guys!):
Some visitors came searching, mostly for grumpy rumblings, mr money mustache, nicole and maggie, you know you’re from the south when, and mr money moustache.
Where did they come from?
174 countries in all! Most visitors came from The United States. Canada & The United Kingdom were not far behind.
Who were they?
Your most commented on post in 2013 was Delurk for us today!
These were your 5 most active commenters:
- 1 rented life 189 comments
- 2 Debbie M 188 comments
- 3 bogart 178 comments
- 4 chacha1 170 comments
- 5 Comradde PhysioProffe 138 comments
Hm, we should send rented life something as a prize… Suggestions?
Grumpy Rumblings (of the formerly untenured) 
January 1, 2014 at 6:51 am
I just read the “you know you’re in the south” post and I can’t believe there was no mention of sweet tea.
January 1, 2014 at 7:09 am
Good point!
January 1, 2014 at 7:03 am
Admirably succinct! I found you through Donna Freedman’s Surviving and Thriving. I am grateful to her, and to you, for (mostly) meaty content with which to breakfast. Blog On!
January 1, 2014 at 7:13 am
Awwww thanks! She was our first commenter.
January 1, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Wow it’s weird to be first when I think of how many times I read only! I’ll take some sleep as a prize… Baby rented life was born Dec. 23. We came home on Christmas Day. He’s perfect but I’m biased of course. We eat a lot so not much sleep for me.
January 1, 2014 at 3:57 pm
CONGRATULATIONS!
We can’t give you more sleep though. :(
#2 suggested letting you pick which charity to send our $61 in Amazon earnings to. Though I could totally send you some baby stuff if there’s anything you need that we have.
January 4, 2014 at 10:18 am
If you want to send to charity, pick an animal shelter/charity of your choice. I wasn’t able to donate in honor of our shelter cat before the holidays like I usually do. And I won’t say no to baby stuff. :) #1, were you told to give your kids Vitamin D supplements? It’s being pushed here but I’m not crazy about it, so I’ve been asking around.
January 4, 2014 at 11:40 am
I live in the South so they don’t do vit D here. However, if you’re nursing it is too early to vit D supplement for the baby (there will be a blood test later when the baby is older) and if you are formula feeding the formula has vit D in it. Vit D supplementation used to be automatic for nursing babies in the North but now they understand it better, and it is less common. Make sure you’re still taking a prenatal. If you’re worried, take the baby outside without sunblock for I forget, 5 or 10 min a day. You can look it up online.
If you want to email us info on your shelter, we can donate to them directly.
January 1, 2014 at 7:45 pm
I’m very excited to be part of the most-viewed post. Wonder what Mr. Money Mustache thinks?
January 1, 2014 at 7:58 pm
Probably nothing at all. He also seems to have stopped censoring comments on his blog so much–the blog is back to being more interesting. I do think its funny that ppl searching for him account for a lot of our readers.
January 2, 2014 at 7:09 am
Congrats on a great year! Here’s to keeping it controversial in 2014 =)
January 2, 2014 at 7:01 pm
Deliberately so, of course.
January 2, 2014 at 11:01 am
Damn it! I wish I would have caught the MMM vs. LV post when it was first written. I think that was during a period when I was super busy with work and had no time for blog commenting.
Anyway, there was a time when I was super drawn to MMM but over time I’ve realized that lifestyle just isn’t for me. The LV way is much more my style and I’ve accepted that.
I find I can’t read frugality blogs anymore because: 1) the self-righteousness, and, 2) there is really only so much to be said about not spending money.
January 2, 2014 at 12:03 pm
His earlier posts are less “my way or you’re a loser,” and the comments sections were more interesting because they included actual discussion of pros and cons. There was a stretch there in which he sounded like a total “complainy-pants” (to use his terminology) and was deleting even the slightest questioning or disagreement in the comments which meant I didn’t click on his blog much because it wasn’t interesting or informative, just whiny and mean-spirited. He seems to be on the upswing a bit.
But yeah, I don’t particularly want to be a self-employed home-contractor and professional blogger. I like my desk-job.
In terms of frugality blogs, we still LOVE miser-mom. She’s big-hearted and highly creative. She hasn’t run out of interesting stuff to say yet. She only updates during academic-year breaks (like now!) which is why she isn’t on our blogroll of stuff we read regularly.
January 2, 2014 at 11:35 am
I found your post on gifted kids really insightful (started reading after May). Thanks for the re-post!
January 2, 2014 at 11:50 am
Glad you like it!
January 2, 2014 at 11:57 am
Thanks! If you hit the gifted tag there’s a bunch more posts on dealing with gifted kids.
March 18, 2014 at 1:11 am
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