My inbox was visited this morning by the WordPress fairy who brought the following bits of good news. As far as I know, I’ve never once in my entire life been rated as “wow,” so that feels pretty good. I can’t help but wonder if everyone got that same rating, though. If so, then this merely represents yet another “participant” ribbon to add to my already impressive collection. –Tom

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:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 29,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 516 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 694 posts. There were 489 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 19mb. That’s about 1 pictures per day.

The busiest day of the year was September 9th with 4,115 views. The most popular post that day was The Tuesday employee whiteboard.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were reddit.com, WordPress Dashboard, wordpress.com, google.com, and melcarroll.blogspot.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for angry songs, misery motorsports, sideways 2, top angry songs, and best angry songs.

Attractions in 2010

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

The Tuesday employee whiteboard September 2010
11 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com

My list of top five angry songs January 2010
8 comments

A crash and a mob August 2010
20 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com

Sideways 2 – Merlot Strikes Back May 2010
6 comments

Ancestry.com can eat my ass March 2010
10 comments