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Well, it's that time of year again... Time to break down this past year's activity using a bunch of complex numbers! As in years past, I will be giving a brief overview on my thoughts of the past year, as well as making some promises for the upcoming year. One thing I'm going to add, though, is I'm going to review the promises I made at the beginning of this past year, and see how I did in keeping those promises.
Overall this past year, we showed signs of improvement in overall usage, capped off by a very strong second half. For a while, we were on a very sluggish pace, but then in August, we started three consecutive months where we beat the records for site visits in those respective months, and although we didn't beat the November and December records, we posted very good numbers, especially December, which was the second-highest month usage total in our history. In the end, we exceeded the site hits from 2009.
As for the activity on the site, it's a bit of a mixed bag. On the categories we had checked from the past to determine site activity (Logins, Comments, Forum Posts), each of the numbers had dropped, despite the higher frequency of site hits. There were fewer blogs posted this past year than in 2009, so that's understandable. Plus, I think a lot of the activity that would normally end up in the comments and logins was transferred to the new Opinions feature, which allowed people, whether logged in or not, to approve of or disapprove of, well, pretty much anything on the site! That turned out to be a huge success, as there were almost 200 opinions cast.
I looked back on all the promises I made in last year's year in review, and here's where we stand on all of them:
1) I plan on increasing the total number of videos posted to this site.
Result: A+; 42 non-WTF Videos posted this year, which is a new record.
2) I am hoping to keep coming with new WTF content every week...
Result: D; I was inconsistent in my WTF-ness, and hit only 33 weeks.
3) reestablishing the "Game of the Week" category. Look for that to resume in February.
Result: F; Yeah, that just plain didn't happen.
4) I need to get a lot of my old poems archived here, so I will be re-releasing some of my old work for you to enjoy or not. I will probably do one a week...
Result: F; Also didn't happen.
5) I have begun work on a webcomic! This will hopefully be a weekly series that will premiere later this year.
Result: C; Yes, I have made progress, but it's been a lot more work than I originally anticipated. Plus, with my schedule being all over the place, my time to work on it has been sporadic. But I am still working on it, and making progress! Hoping to have the full script written by mid-spring, and afterwards, will begin paneling the thing out!
6) I am working on the like/dislike function for blog posts.
Result: A+++; Not only did we get it on the blog posts, but on just about every other section of the site, too! Overwhelming success so far. Take that, Facebook!
7) You will also see new buttons to automatically share posts on your Facebook, MySpace, and other sites.
Result: A; Got it in place in a timely fashion. The only reason I didn't give it an A+ is because I don't know if the function is really being used all that much.
8) Also, I am in the planning stages for a reimagining of TGBob TV.
Result: N/A; I just plain decided not to do it... wasn't the right time.
9) There is one other surprise I'm holding back on, because this one new feature may be one of the biggest changes we've had on this site in quite a while, and announcing it here would probably not do the feature justice.
Result: WTF?; I don't even remember what that was...
10) One other thing I will be doing this year is giving out awards to members for different categories for the year 2009.
Result: F; Yeah, I just plain forgot.
For promises this year? I'll do that in a later post. I'm pretty exhausted, so I'm planning on turning in early. So, stay tuned! Below are the yearly stats. And as always, thank you to all the members and lurkers who have made this site a success!
-- TG
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MEMBER INFO
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Number of Members: 33
New Members this year: 3 (RECORD: 7; 2009)
SITE STATS (2010/Total)
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Site Visits: 3417/11,917 (RECORD: 3557; 2008)
Unique Visitors: 842/2038 *** NEW RECORD
Most Visits for
---- Single Day: 42; 01/28/10 (RECORD: 48; 12/09/08)
---- Month: 408; December (RECORD: 423; December 2008)
MEMBER STATS (2010/Total)
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Number of Logins: 298/1121 (RECORD: 431; 2009)
Number of Comments: 115/885 (RECORD: 298; 2008)
BLOG STATS (2010/Total)
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Number of Blogs: 127/588 (RECORD: 184; 2008)
By Category
---- Daily Blog: 50/288 (RECORD: 104; 2008)
---- Video Blog: 0/1 (RECORD: 1; 2007)
---- Sports: 0/23 (RECORD: 17; 2007)
---- Projects: 1/4 (RECORD: 2; 2007)
---- WTF: 33/157 (RECORD: 49; 2008)
---- Other Videos: 42/96 *** NEW RECORD
---- Polls: 0/8 (RECORD: 4; 2007)
---- Poetry: 1/2 *** TIED RECORD (2008)
---- Game of the Week: 0/8 (RECORD: 8; 2008)
FORUM STATS (2010/Total)
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Threads Created: 17/240 (RECORD: 148; 2003)
Most Threads Created for
---- Single Day: 2; 02/15/10 & 09/30/10 (RECORD: 28; 06/30/03)
---- Month: 7; July (RECORD: 44; August 2003)
Number of Posts: 66/469 (RECORD: 192; 2003)
Most Posts for
---- Single Day: 8; 09/29/10 (RECORD: 28; 06/30/03)
---- Month: 23; September (RECORD: 46; August 2003)
MEMBER BOARD STATS (2010/Total)
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Number of Messages: 24/76 (RECORD: 52; 2009)
Most Messages in
---- Single Day: 2; 09/24/10, 09/29/10, 10/05/10, 12/10/10 (RECORD: 19; 05/06/09)
---- Month: 6; April & December (RECORD: 34; May 2009)
OPINIONS (NEW TO 2010)
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Number of Opinions: 182
Most Opinions Cast for
---- Single Day: 11; 04/07/10
---- Month: 40; April
Number of Approvals: 178
Most Approvals Cast for
---- Single Day: 11; 04/07/10
---- Month: 40; April
Number of Disapprovals: 4
Most Disapprovals Cast for
---- Single Day: 1; 05/17/10, 06/21/10, 07/11/10, 11/07/10
---- Month: 1; May, June, July, November
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