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More Than A Mile Behind: America and the Metric System
2013 in blogging
Annual Report
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on More Than A Mile Behind: America and the Metric System’s activity in 2013. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 34,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2013, there were 45 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 67 posts. There were 107 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 22 MB. That's about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was December 17th with 1,186 views. The most popular post that day was Will Hawaii Be the First All-Metric State?.
Attractions in 2013
These are the posts that got the most views on More Than A Mile Behind: America and the Metric System in 2013.
- 1 Top 10 Reasons the United States Should Use the Metric System (or SI) 14 comments September 2012
- 2 Will Hawaii Be the First All-Metric State? 7 comments April 2013
- 3 Top 10 Reasons to Switch to the Metric System Revisited 2 comments September 2013
- 4 The Top 10 Reasons Why Now is the Right Time for the United States to Convert to the Metric System 5 comments April 2013
- 5 A Poll on American Culture and Metric System Adoption 10 comments June 2013
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2013 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for why should we use the metric system and why should the us use the metric system.
Where did they come from?
That's 127 countries in all!Most visitors came from The United States. Australia & United Kingdom were not far behind.
See you in 2014
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2013 was A Poll on American Culture and Metric System Adoption
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: