The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com – the blogging software that provides the framework for this site – mulled over how our  site did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

That’s really great news. Our site is popular, with 19,812 visitors during 2010 – an average of over 54 visitors per day.

Crunchy numbers

In 2010, there were 84 new posts, taking the total archive of this blog to 242 posts. There were 44 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 432mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was March 12th with 297 views, when the site was covering the Junior World Challenge Cup for Synchronized Skating in Gothenburg. The most popular post that day was About us.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were after the site domain names of  iowskaters.co.uk, iowfigureskaters.co.uk, were facebook.com, aolsearch.aol.co.uk, and search.bt.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for iwidfsc, isle of wight ice skating club, terri smith, wight jewels, and synchronized skating. The Jewels and synchro are big news!

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
1 About us
2 Tuition
3 Ryde rink
4 Contacts
5 Synchro

This shows that the website is largely used for the permanent information provided about the club, about learning to skate, and about the Isle of Wight’s synchro teams. In other words , the site is doing its main job of promoting the club and ice skating on the Isle of Wight.