2013 in Review, Part 1

It’s the end, dear readers, but the moment has been prepared for…

…by WordPress, that is, who have produced my annual report. It’s just the beginning of my regular array of posts that look back at the year just passed, so keep your eyes peeled (also, open) for three further review-of-the-year posts in the next few days. Those ones I actually wrote myself!

Here’s an excerpt from WordPress’ report:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Once you’ve read that, the following will make sense:

  • It wasn’t just new posts that grew the archive of the blog: 141 reposts from 2007-2011 helped increase the tally from last year’s 249.
  • Those Harry Potter reviews…! They remain my most-viewed posts most days.
  • The Batman one got a lot of visits from people wanting to know when it was out in the UK; I pushed Adèle Blanc-Sec like mad on Twitter when it premiered on Film4, so that paid off; the last one I can’t really explain.
  • Particular thanks to ghostof82, filmhipster, Colin and Mike.

Next up in my review of the year: a look back at December 2013.

3 thoughts on “2013 in Review, Part 1

  1. Congrats on another year of blogging, and thanks for mentioning me. I haven’t had the chance to comment as much as I’d have liked – there are a handful of noir reviews I need to revisit – but I will get round to them eventually. All the best for 2014.

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    • Thanks Colin. This may just be an impression rather than fact, but it feels like my viewing this year had an unfortunate dearth of films that cross into your neck of the woods. Nonetheless, I always look forward to your comments!

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      • Yeah, there was a lot of stuff that was off my radar so to speak and I hadn’t anything especially intelligent to add. But, as I said, there were a few posts I need to get back to.

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