In case you've not heard, the New Year comes in tonight. December 31 marks the end of the first calendar year of this blog, although the first post didn't show up until May 4. The average daily visitors has grown by about 400% since that first month. That's not what's the most interesting point, however. One of the things that I find interesting is the pages that have been viewed the most...
Here are the top 5 pages for this blog for all of 2011:
1. My Paper from the Northern Great Plains History Conference
2. Jan Hus--Pics from Bethlehem Chapel in Prague
3. Perry, Romney, and Mormonism
4. New England Execution Sermons
5. Olomouc, Czech Republic--Pics Included
From this quick perusal of the most popular posts, it appears that people like pictures of cool things from a foreign country. That's no big surprise. A couple of other topics that surprised me as to their popularity (as shown from search results) were Mormons and execution sermons. The Mormons may be getting a bit more press this year because two of their number are running for president. New England execution sermons, or some variation of this topic received quite a bit in the way of search traffic, which was very surprising. Perhaps, people enjoy reading about morbid stuff. I enjoyed the book Between Heaven and Earth, the subject of my post on the subject of Puritan execution sermons.
What topics did you find most interesting? What topics would you like to see covered in the future? I'm interested to know going forward.
Oh, yeah, and have a great 2012--even if the Mayans were right.
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