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January 2nd, 2011:

Fading Ad Blog’s 2010 in Review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 330,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 14 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 205 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 2501 posts. There were 62 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 17mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was February 16th with 1,368 views. The most popular post that day was Graffiti Under the I-95 Overpass – Ft Lauderdale, FL.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were networkedblogs.com, search.aol.com, frankjump.com, en.wordpress.com, and google.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for graffiti, trans, sin city, chatham artillery punch, and anita bryant.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Graffiti Under the I-95 Overpass – Ft Lauderdale, FL December 2007
6 comments

2

Keuffel & Esser Co., Drafting Materials, Surveying Instruments… Hannes Taylor Co (Adv) – Ann Street, South of City Hall – NYC March 2008
42 comments

3

Chatham Artillery Punch – River House – Savannah, GA January 2009
2 comments

4

Public Market Artist Likes Rosario Dawson – Seattle, WA December 2009
2 comments

5

AO Smith – Harvestore Silo – Ross Corner Junction – Routes 15 N – 206 N – Sussex County, NJ March 2008
33 comments

Featured Fades from NOLA – Whiskey Ad – Butt’s Liver Pills – Emerson’s Ginger Mint Julep – Estelle & Gary Pardo

A. Botsay - possibly a notary. © Pardo Family

A. Botsay & Unknown Whiskey ad © Pardo Family

© Pardo Family

© Pardo Family

© Pardo Family

© Pardo Family

Gary, Dustin , Estelle & Noah Pardo © Pardo Family

This holiday vacation, my dear friends Gary & Estelle took their two sons to New Orleans for the week. Although it was chilly, they escaped the blizzard. Thank you for snapping these fading ads. Anyone out there familiar with the first one?

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