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The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 270,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 12 days for that many people to see it.
There were 110 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 53 MB. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was August 3rd with 1,587 views. The most popular post that day was Just spend the money? Why the answer to Mr. Money Moustache is not Spend All the Things.
In 2015, there were 261 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,635 posts.
These are the posts that got the most views in 2015.
- 1 Ask the Grumpies: Should I get a PhD in Accounting? March 2013
- 2 My cousin’s wedding December 2011
- 3 Ask the Grumpies: TIAA-Cref vs. Vanguard Lifecycle funds January 2013
- 4 Are professors off during the summer? March 2011
- 5 The Tiny House Movement and Privilege July 2014
[Ed: Note that NONE of these are from 2015 and only one of them is from 2014(!) That #2 post is from students trying to plagiarize a really common composition assignment. Not sure about the popularity of the other posts.
According to our stats, here’s the most popular 2015 posts:
Ask the Grumpies: Dissertation Student from Hades
Making friends as a professor or as an adult
How do raises work where you work?
Do you think there’s any point…
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The top referring sites in 2015 were:
[Visitors came from] 169 countries in all!
Most visitors came from The United States. Canada & United Kingdom were not far behind.
Your most commented on post in 2015 was Do you think there’s any point …
These were your 5 most active commenters:
- 1 chacha1 233 comments
- 2 Leah 187 comments
- 3 Debbie M 187 comments
- 4 Comradde PhysioProffe 135 comments
- 5 Ana 128 comments
Yay Chacha! This means you get to tell us where to donate our most recent month’s proceeds from amazon sales. Either tell us and link up in the comments (if you want more exposure) or email us at grumpyrumblings at gmail if you want it to be more secret-like.
Any blog commentary or highlights from the grumpy gallery? Also, congratulate Chacha in the comments. :)
January 5, 2016 at 9:27 am
congrats to Chacha! I see that I’m a distant second.
January 5, 2016 at 1:16 pm
LOL Leah, clearly I was very involved in 2015. Two months off work post-surgery probably contributed. In any case, Grumpies, thank you very much and I would be pleased and honored to have the Big Mouth Award donated to Planned Parenthood.
January 5, 2016 at 1:52 pm
nice choice (I’ll get to work on a 2016 victory ;-) )
January 5, 2016 at 1:59 pm
Ah… solid evidence of what I’ve suspected: my blog commenting fell off in 2015. I like comments, though- both writing them and reading them. So perhaps I’ll try to do better in 2016!
Congrats, Chacha1!
January 6, 2016 at 6:18 am
Congrats ChaCha! That’s dedication! =)
January 7, 2016 at 10:06 am
Congrats ChaCha! Great cause to choose, too!
January 18, 2016 at 1:06 am
[…] won our “most commenting of 2015″ contest (even though she wasn’t aware she’d entered, she had, oh, she had). That means she […]
January 28, 2016 at 12:45 pm
I didn’t do this for my blog this year! Bad blogger!