Summary of Fili’s World year 2008

Happy (/+Chinese) new year!

It’s very difficult to summarize a blogging year. I started going through last year’s posts, but as there are hundreds of them, it seemed very time consuming. So I’ll take the easy path and share some stats.

Over the last year I wrote over 250 posts, averaging a post every 1.5 days. I’d say that’s pretty prolific, though I’ve been trying to slow down to a post in 2-3 days in recent weeks. To those curious – on average I’d say I spend about 10 minutes on a regular post, and about 20-30 minutes on the longer ones (like this one) or ones including alot of photos/videos.

Following are the most popular posts for Fili’s World during 2008  (by order):

1. Tainan’s Cosplay : Cosplay Anime dolls and figures #4
2. Asian university rankings – Top universities in Asia 2008
3. The NCKU Cosplay Event : The beautiful Cosplay Taiwanese girls #3
4. Miss World 2008 : East Asia
5. Asian Pop Culture : Gorgeous Japanese Cosplay @ NCKU-Tainan-Taiwan
6. Anime comes alive : Stunning Naruto Cosplay Costumes at NCKU’s Cosplay Event #2
7. Best universities in Asia 2007 : The top Asian programs rankings list
8. Miss Universe 2008 – Asia
9. Foreigner perception in Taiwan : westerners and Taiwanese girls
10. Exploring Cultures : Cross Cultural Relationships Questionnaire

Longest discussion on a 2008 post is  on :

• A “Made in Taiwan” Scandal : An article for Calcalist

Fili’s World now receives between 1000-1200 unique visitors a day, averaging ~1.7 pageviews per visitor. Most (80%+) are new visitors coming from all sorts of sites, mainly from search engines.

Here are some of the popular search engine keywords leading to the blog in 2008 :

1. top universities in asia
2. chinese girls
3. china girls
4. beautiful chinese girls
5. most beautiful girls
6. most beautiful girl in the world
7. zhang zilin
8. top universities in china

What can I say? :S :O

Where people came from during 2008 :

1. US – 28%
2. UK – 5%
3. Canada – 5%
4. Taiwan – 5%
5. India – 4.5%
6. China – 4.5%

See you next year.