2011 in review

The data team at Automattic are wizards. Actual wizards that know magic! Check out the annual review for danroundhill.com:

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 64,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

2010 Blog in Review

Looks like I should post on Android development more often!

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

Featured image

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 40,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 56 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 248 posts. There were 246 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 385mb. That’s about 5 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was February 3rd with 383 views. The most popular post that day was wpToGo.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were android.com, facebook.com, codex.wordpress.org, friendsofhubsandcaps.blogspot.com, and android.wordpress.org.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for android listview, wptogo, developing android apps, android listview xml, and listview android.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

wpToGo November 2008
278 comments

2

Working with the Android ListView December 2009
15 comments

3

10 Tips for Developing Android Apps April 2010
5 comments

4

Aero Black Cursors for Windows Vista November 2006
4 comments

5

Twenty Ten WordPress Theme is Here! April 2010
6 comments

danroundhill.com – iPhone Compatible

For a fun little project I made an iPhone optimized version of my blog. You can now visit danroundhill.com from an iPhone and get a cool interface for viewing my latest posts or flickr photos. I really liked how i.bloglines.com looked so I borrowed some of their code and then integrated it with wordpress. It wasn’t that hard to do! The webkit browser is really amazing, here’s hoping it ends up in more mobile devices in the future.

Get Pumped for LOST Season 3!

Came across a great video on youtube that makes me hunger for season 3 of LOST! Check it out and become even more confused…

ps I also changed up the look of the site a bit, using an image from a wheat field that I took on a trip to Eastern Washington.

Easter Egg

I was bored so I added a hidden easter egg to the site today. See if you can find it! And hey no looking at the source, you hackers!

To WordPress!

Over the last week I have been working on getting all of my old data over to WordPress, a very handy dandy blogging tool that has many awesome features. I don’t really feel like coding my own stuff for the blog anymore due to lack of time, and also I feel that I’ve got a good handle on PHP/MySQL which was one of my original purposes for starting the blog back in 2004. It was kind of a pain to get all of the entries from my old hand coded database tables to the WordPress tables, but I used my elite SQL skills to make it happen. I actually designed my system a lot like how WordPress does things, which encouraged me that I did some things correctly at least :) Right now I am using a theme called ‘K2′ which I am going to mod more to my liking. It’s not a blog unless it’s personal! Commenting should work, and I need to add links to my gallery and what not.

Wallpapers

I’m going to start adding some wallpapers that I’ve created to the gallery. I have quite a few to upload and I just need to find them on my hard drive. ;) My first one is of the Christmas variety.
Click here to visit the gallery.