remembrance of things awry

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 370,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 16 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 113 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 482 posts.

The busiest day of the year was February 27th with 2 views. The most popular post that day was Politics of the Tiger.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were mail.yahoo.com, facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, chuvaness.livejournal.com, and en.wikipilipinas.org.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for toto gonzalez, remembrance of things awry, toto gonzalez blog, toto gonzales, and remembranceofthingsawry.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Politics of the Tiger February 2010
25 comments

CURRENT EVENTS MANILA December 2009
133 comments

About Toto Gonzalez August 2006
350 comments

The Elegance of Old Spanish Manila February 2008
429 comments

The Families of Old Binan, Laguna February 2010
161 comments

“Matigas.”

“Stiff.”

“That’s the quality of a Malantic…”

“Ang pangit naman nila…  Mayaman nga, pangit naman.”  [ "They're so ugly...  They may be rich, but they're ugly." ] is the consistent comment of the ordinary Filipino about the celebrated portraits of the sisters Soledad and Inocencia Francia from Pagsanjan, Laguna, in the Leandro and Cecilia Locsin collection.  Of course, to affluent art aficionados it is an entirely different story, because to them, even the painfully plain features of the rich Francia sisters have been elevated to high artistry by the master brushstrokes of Antonio Malantic.