One of the plugins I use to manage various aspects of my site is called ‘JetPack,’ and it provides a host of services from the multiple login options for commenting to site statistics to sharing options to spam control and countless others.

I just received an email from them that links to this site’s year in review, and it shows some basic stats such as who was the top commenter and what posts were the most popular. Some interesting tidbits that stand out: The second most popular referrer to the page (where people came to the page from) was Facebook, which is a surprise, and outside of the United States, the countries that visited the site most were Georgia and Russia! I’m sure it was for completely legitimate reasons.

Hmm…

The most interesting thing is that each firework exploding on the page represents a post that was made, and the code that does it is available on GitHub, a programming repository. It’s not a terribly dynamic or earth-shattering report, but if you’re interested you can find it at this link.