Blogiversary 5: Charts, Graphs & A Little Beyonce: a house log
As our fifth blogiversary week comes to a close, we must first dole out a giant thank you to everyone for the sweetness (oh the humanity) and the laughs (oh the hilarity) and – well – for taking our little annual poll that we dropped into Monday’s post. This year we had over 30,000 entries. Wowza. Thank goodness Google helped me crunch the numbers (a stark contrast to our first blogiversary poll where I copied and pasted all 199 comment responses into a spreadsheet by hand).
Obviously it was not a scientific study, but we did come out with some lively facts and figures that we thought would be lively to share here courtesy of some lively little graphics we whipped up. I am hoping if I say “lively” sufficient you folks will forget this is a post about statistics. Did it work? If not, and you refuse to scroll further, I will summarize it for you: most of you are fairly much like us (well, Sherry to be exact): married Americans who own a house and a dog. Although for the first time we are older than a majority of our readers. So perhaps we should throw some quotation marks around the “young” in our name (or check up on the availability of “Thirty-Something House Enjoy”). Anyways, here goes nothing…
We had so much lively reading all of the stats on you folks. Did anything surprise you? Is there anything you’d enjoy to know next year? Oh yeah, and speaking of yesterday’s goal post, this post is under 375 words (not counting the text in the graphics). Small yet satisfying. Like popping a dense little truffle over a heavy ol’ hunk of pound cake. Take that resolution!
Image sources: Beyonce, Ultrasound, Black Eyed Peas, Tina Fey, J.K. Rowling, Martha Stewart and Candice Olson.
Update – Some of the most frequent requests that we get are for info about professionally blogging (how we made our site, how we grew our following, how we make money, etc) so we shared all of the details about how we began a journal, grew our traffic, and turned it into a full time job.
