2010 Year in Review (Better Late than Never Edition)

by: Mike Hoefer

Sun Feb 06, 2011 at 07:00:00 AM EST

Top 20 Diaries of 2010*

1. Sean Mahoney Continues Phony Anti-Business Tour
2. blue-hampshire-endorses-ann-mclane-kuster
3. a-look-at-the-partisan-makeup-of-nh-senate-districts
4. katrina-swett-opposes-marriage-equality-nationwide
5. new-hampshire-partisan-voting-index-pvi
6. thank-you-rep-hodes-i-wish-there-was-more-of-you
7. primary-results-open-thread
8. Peter Burling's comments about lobbying and the Kuster-Swett race
9. power-outages-reported-in-southern-new-hampshire
10. son-of-2010-general-election-results-thread
11. nhsen-the-bill-binnie-wiki-wars
12. state-of-the-nh-senate-races
13. katrina-swett-registered-washington-lobbyist
14. nh02-straw-poll-2
15. House Republican Leader Goes on Religious Tirade
16. theyre-coming-for-your-civil-rights
17. It May Continue To Be "NH State Representative" Tim Horrigan
18. A Dinner with Mark Connolly
19. nh-tea-party-members-celebrate-white-pride-day-at-new-hampshire-state-house
20. nhsen-mark-connolly-considers-a-run

*As measured in unique page views to the diary detail page. Diaries that are on the Front Page may not be accurately represented.

More useful(?) trivia below the fold...

• Diaries 2,807
• Comments 18,388
• Users 2,709*

*New user in 2010 least likely to be Front Pager teddybearspersonalizedcom

Outlier Days
We generally have about 500-600 vistors a day. Outlier days in 2010 included

• July 21 Palin Endorses Ayotte (2093 Vistors)
• Sept 14 Primary Election Day (1834 Vistors)
• October 28th Not sure why ( (1669 Vistors) (Diaries 11299-11308)
• November 2nd Election Day  (1848 Vistors)
• November 3rd Post Election Day (1773 Vistors)

All told over the course of 2010 91,906 unique vistors viewed 1,116,756 pages over the course of 340,556 visits.

We had vistis from  52 "states" and 155 countries.

Top 5 "States" (after NH)

1. Massachusettes
2. New Your
3. District of Columbia
4. Virginia
5. Vermont

Top 10 Countries (excluding USA)

1. Philippines
2. India
3. Canada
4. United Kingdom
5. Germany
6. Bangladesh
7. Spain
8. Vietnam
9. Australia
10. Pakistan

Top 10 Search Terms (incoming traffic, excluding Blue Hampshire and its variants)

1. bill binnie
2. katrina swett
3. carol shea porter
4. dean barker
5. chris dodd dean barker blue hampshire
6. jonnybbad
7. john lynch new hampshire pledge
8. frank guinta
9. carol shea-porter townhall schedule 2010
10. our state is broken john stephen

Browser wars

• Firefox 37% (-5)
• IE 34% (-3)
• Safari 17% (+2)
• Chrome 9% (+4)

Traffic Sources

• Direct 36%
• Google Organic 34%
• DailyKos  6%
• Facebook 4%
• Twitter 2%