I meant to do this at the 1,000-post mark, but here we are. We started the blog before Facebook was as prevalent as it is now (at least among Amelie's grandparents and great-grandparents). I stole the idea (and even the name! I'm terrible) from my friend Amanda, with whom I've kept up an email correspondence for a whole decade.
Over the course of the time that I've been posting, I've lost photos - computers went kaput, SD cards were misplaced, but the blog has been a lifesaver in terms of backing images up that would otherwise be lost (I think everything is in two places now - and most things are stored three or four ways).
Some blog stats, since the blog went up:
Posts: 1,012!
First Post, April 30th 2010: Baby Bump
Photo from first post:
Photo from the most recent post, January 20th, 2020: Winter Break
The blog has been going for 9 and 3/4 years. Can you believe it? At some point, I started having to pay to host the site/photos (the rate is currently $19.99 a year), but I think it's been worth it.
I did a post similar to this at the two-year mark, and it's been my most-viewed post of all time. Though I suspect that people go there looking for something different than what I wrote! Ha! The second most popular post (with 195 views) is "Mega Zoo Trip" from 2013.
Search terms that brought folks to the blog (I strongly suspect at least half of these -- maybe close to all of them! -- just can't spell the animal "buffalo") :
"baby buffaloe happy father's day"Average number of posts per month: 8.49
"sad baby"
"baby buffaloe blogspot"
"sad baby face"
"baby buffaloe"
"and on about the rugrats"
"baby standing up"
Average number of posts per year: 100.2
Month with the most posts: December 2012 (30 posts)
2 Months with no posts: April and August 2018
Anyway, these are probably meaningless stats (since it keeps switching to counting me and my views), but it's still kind of impressive:
Chart showing the number of posts each year that I made in excel just now:
Baby Buffaloes: 3
I don't pay for blogger! I wonder why you have to
ReplyDeleteWhat?? I’m going to have to investigate this. I’ve been paying for ages. It used to be $1.99/month and has actually gone a little down in price. I do think it’s not unreasonable for the sheer amount of photo hosting that I’m getting, but at the time, it only gave me the option to archive the blog and start a new one or pay the monthly fee. Hmmmm.
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