We posted with a few warm-up entries last summer, but re:Cycling officially launched on September 15, 2009. So we’ve been period-blogging for six months! Here are some of our milestones:
- 178 entries (this one is #179) in 49 categories, with 230 tags
- Largest category: menstruation
- 409 comments
- Most popular tag: breast cancer narrowly edged out vulva about a week ago
- Most downloaded image: Image of mammogram showing healthy and cancerous breasts side-by-side from this post (Dakota Fanning’s fake period on a movie set is a close second)
- Most commented post: Holly Grigg-Spall’s guest post, Are We Addicted to the Pill?, with 19 responses (Heather Dillaway’s guest post, It’s Official: At Least One SNL Writer Fears and Disrespects Women’s Bodies, was a close second with 18 responses)
- Top Five Countries our visitors are from, in order: U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India
- Most people visiting re:Cycling at the same time: 9
- Number of spam comments caught in our filter for comment spam: 1309, with more every day
- Best publicity: Featured at Women’s eNews, November 2009. We also really like the brief post about us at BitchBuzz, October 5, 2009.
- Number of Twitter followers: 91
And this weekend we added a Facebook page.
Bravo! And how many visitors have had a look?
It’s not possible to know exactly how many visitors, what with dynamic IP addresses and not knowing whether cookies have been accepted, refused, deleted, and so on. We’ve had approximately 30,000 page loads since we launched.
Congratulations! Here’s to the next awesome six months!