As 2011 winds down, I thought I’d list a few year-end analytics for The Technology Liberation Front blog. In 2011, we had just under 400,000 visits from 332,000 unique visitors. That’s up from 312,000 visits and 247,000 unique visitors in 2010.If you prefer a pageviews metric then we had 514,000 pageviews and 444,000 unique pageviews in 2011, up from 420,000 and 361,000 respectively in 2010.
As far as the top posts of the year go, anything Bitcoin related proved to be link-bait magic with 4 of the top 10 posts (all by Jerry Brito) being about Bitcoin. But it was Ryan Radia’s post on how to protect your privacy on Facebook and the Net more generally that commanded the most hits in 2011 with almost 35,000 views. Congrats Ryan! Anyway, the year’s Top 10 list follows below and many thanks to all those who took the time to visit the TLF over the past year.
- #1) Privacy Solutions: How to Block Facebook’s “Like” Button And Other Social Widgets (Ryan Radia, May 20) – 34,913 views
- #2) Bitcoin, Silk Road, and Lulzsec oh my! (Jerry Brito, June 12) – 8,312 views
- #3) Terrific Visualization of Digital Information Explosion (Adam Thierer, Feb 11) – 7,236 views
- #4) Revisiting the Bitcoin Bubble (Jerry Brito, April 25) – 4,874 views
- #5) Surveillance, San Francisco-Style (Jim Harper, April 6) – 4,555 views
- #6) Bitcoin, intermediaries, and information control (Jerry Brito, April 20) – 3,362 views
- #7) 3D Printing: The Future is Here (Adam Marcus, June 10) – 2,953 views
- #8) Bitcoin: Imagine a net without intermediaries (Jerry Brito, April 16) – 2,750 views
- #9) Book Review: The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov (Adam Thierer, Jan. 4) – 2,606 views
- #10) A Response to Andrew McLaughlin on Net Neutrality & “Freedom” (Adam Thierer, July 9) 2,298 views
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.