Happy New Year, readers and skimmers alike! Here’s hoping 2014 proves to be the Greatest Year of All Time. At the very least, maybe it’ll help us forget the parts where 2013 let us down and still has a lot to answer for.
For MCC’s second New Year, the happy-go-lucky stats wranglers at WordPress.com have compiled an automated 2013 Annual Report for each and every blogger on their roster, complete with fireworks and eye-popping design work and a world map in case you prefer practical gifts. In addition to the facts and figures I already reported yesterday with my own manually culled year-end review, this report also helpfully confirms which WordPress bloggers left me the most comments last year and therefore deserve innumerable treasures in Heaven and possibly also baked goods. You should subscribe to all of them so they can rise to fame and I can write entries about how I’m one of the Little People who knew them way back when.
For the intensely curious, WordPress’ report also reveals which of my 2012 entries absolutely refuses to die. It didn’t exactly go viral or receive attention from any major online sources I’m aware of, but passersby just keep clicking it and clicking it and clicking it and now the report thinks I ought to consider churning out more daily posts exactly like it, despite how impractical this would be on multiple levels.
Have some sample artwork as an additional incentive. Ya like colors? It has colors.
The weirdest statistic it reveals:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 80,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the report in all its scintillating wonder!
That most important part, once more with emphasis:
Happy New Year!
Midlife Crisis Crossover! 
Happy New Year’s!
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And Happy New Year to you, too!
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I’m in the top 5 commenters! ha
how did you get the report?
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WordPress emails all users with a link to their blog’s annual report. Kind of a cool perk.
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Aw man, sadly I did not get one. Maybe it will come later! Thank you for the information. Once again Happy New Year to you!
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The Annual Report should be your basic WordPress site URL with “/2013/annual-report/” tacked on the end.
Annual reports are initially set to Private so only the user can see them (which means I can’t tell if that link works or not), but there’s an option to change it to Public so you can share with others. If the link doesn’t work for you, then WordPress really ought to hurry up and make it happen.
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Hey! thanks for doing that! I ended up going to the support forum last night& somebody generated the report for me. I’m really grateful you went through the trouble to give me directions. I may or not may not post mine but it was interesting and very amusing! Thanks again.
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No problem! I didn’t realize this was a slow-rollout project on their end.
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It’s weird. A glitch maybe.
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Happy new year to you as well, Randall!
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Thanks and likewise once more, Michelle! Here’s to a hopefully more fulfilling 2014 to show that loser 2013 the error of its ways.
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