And this very post is the 300th on Papergreat!1
Much thanks to those of you who keep coming back for more ephemera ramblings and also to those of you who have helped spread word to your friends and fellow history and paper enthusiasts.
And I especially appreciate your great comments. Most of them are shared in my regular roundup of reader comments and they help make this blog much deeper and more interesting than it would otherwise be!
Just for fun, here are some statistics on Year 1 of Papergreat (as of 5:50 p.m. EST today):
Total page views: 36,927 (an average of about 101 per day!)
Most popular posts
1. An old receipt from L.B. Hantz, contractor, of York -- 2,883 page views
2. "A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband" -- 2,674
3. Papergreat's star-studded 200th post (plus some chickens) -- 310
4. Selections from the 1967 Top Value Stamps catalog -- 246
5. Happy birthday, Henry Darger -- 240
6. An old receipt from F.W. Behler -- 197
7. Some selections from the "Papergreat" archives -- 190
8 (tie). Reader submission: "I pray you never get scaly leg" -- 144
8 (tie). Collection of Phillies ticket stubs -- 144
10. The wonderful world of reading and #fridayreads -- 136
Top referring sites
1. Google -- 6,582
2. StumbleUpon -- 2,478
3. The New York Times -- 2,235
4. Google UK -- 830
5. Google Canada -- 545
6. Facebook -- 476
7. Google Australia -- 239
8. Buffy's Write Zone -- 196
9. Google India -- 165
10. CoTweet -- 154
Top Google searches leading to Papergreat
1. Papergreat -- 206
2. Top Value Stamps -- 94
3. Henry Darger -- 62
4. Dealey Plaza -- 21
5. Al Schmid -- 18
6. Vincent Price -- 17
7. Papergreat.blogspot.com - 11
8 (tie). baseball illustration -- 10
8 (tie). jfk assassination -- 10
8 (tie). the beatles beatles for sale album cover -- 10
Top pageviews by country
1. United States -- 24,097
2. United Kingdom -- 1,589
3. Canada -- 1,245
4. Germany -- 1,050
5. Australia -- 465
6. France -- 457
7. Russia -- 431
8. India -- 331
9. Argentina -- 209
10. Ukraine -- 128
Footnote
1. Which, as tradition clearly dictates, calls for a celebratory chicken.
I, for one, am very excited for Year Two and beyond! Papergreat rocks, and so do you.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, a year of consistent and highly interesting blogging is indeed an accomplishment!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe scaly leg made the top ten:)
Congratulations, Chris! Here's to many more successful years of blogging! Keep up the great work.
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