The year 2013 saw about 425,000 visits from nearly 140,000 distinct users. This is by far the most activity I have seen in the 10 years (!) I have been writing on this blog. (I failed to mark the tenth anniversary of my first post, but this happened on March 1 of this year.) This increase came despite my writing only 33 posts this year, up from 30 in 2012, but way down from the 50+ posts I wrote in most previous years. This means that I received nearly 13,000 visits per post, compared to my previous record of 4,200!
This year I am not listing top referrers because there is too much spam to get a good idea of where the real users are coming from. (I do fear that some of the increase in visits may be due to bots as well, especially since China is now the country from which my blog is most visited!) I am also not listing top search terms because there are too many people getting here accidentally when I am clearly not what they are looking for. I will, however, list the top posts of the year, along with some of the most interesting search terms, in order of popularity.
Significantly, for the first time since I have been tracking such things, all of the top ten posts are recent. Indeed, all but number 10 are from 2013, and number 10 was my very last post of 2012. This suggests that people either actually following the blog, or coming from the blogs where I cross-post, or coming in on the front page, now outnumber those coming in to particular posts on random Google searches.
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