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 This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 110 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 177 posts. There were 195 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 102mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was December 6th with 219 views. The most popular post that day was Sinterklaas came early this year….

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, catholicblogs.com, en.wordpress.com, twinsabroad.blogspot.com, and search.aol.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for piazza navona, sinterklaas, santa susanna, befana, and father christmas.

Attractions in 2010

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

Sinterklaas came early this year… November 2009

Centro Pro Unione November 2009

Santa Susanna: the American parish in Rome November 2009

Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, and il Colosseo February 2010

Mar Bawai Soro March 2010