Top 20 Archive Posts of 2010: The Charts!

Published on 30 December 2010 in , ,

Crack open the Top of the Pops theme tune cos we’re going chart and table crazy!

Review of the Year

Not content with boring you to death with our Top 20 Archive Posts, its time to put it all in tabular and chart form!

Here’s the chart then!

Position 2009 position Change Post Year Published
1 1 GE Money – incompetence and downright lies 2007
2 2 +1 Saving Money On The Trains 2005
3 7 +4 Vegetarian Iceland 2005
4 4 Freesat Website 2007
5 2 -3 BBC iPlayer – why DRM? 2007
6 14 +8 The Amazing Chip Vending Machine 2003
7 6 -1 Alliance and Leicester Internet Banking 2005
8 9 +1 Well I’m not moving – the problems caused by ignoring train seat reservations 2007
9 15 +6 Switzerland Day 3 – to the Top of Europe! 2008
10 11 +1 Scotch Steak Houses – Evil With A Green Sign 2005
11 NEW! Online Banking and the bad URLs that go with it 2009
12 8 -4 Installing Linux on an elderly laptop 2008
13 NEW! Glass bottles on the doorstep – getting a milkman 2009
14 5 -9 The Usability of Meeting Room Names 2005
15 NEW! It just worked straight away – using a 3G dongle on Linux at Beebcamp 2009
16 NEW! All aboard the night train to the highlands! 2009
17 NEW! A plethora of cables 2009
18 re-entry Lunch and Stroll in Hampstead 2005
19 NEW! Reviewing the Cumbria Way 2009
20 NEW! Switzerland 2008 Day 2 – Waterfalls, more lakes and a fantastic funicular 2008

Doesn’t that look nice?

Analysis

So looking at those numbers, and we’ve quite a few scoring well from 2009 and a bit of shuffling around. But the top posts remains the same.

Chart of the number of entries per year

Looking at the posts per year, clearly I wrote little of any value in 2002, 2004 and 2006! Some would say I don’t write anything of any value all the time but the least said about that, the better.

Number of entries per year

If we look year on year, we see some interesting changes. That post about Ocado from 2002 is gone, and 2003 and 2004 have both slipped. Interestingly posts from 2005 have, however, gone up. Very interesting. It shows that whilst the long tail may favour more recent content, if you’ve got the right stuff it’ll keep on getting the views, even if it is five years old.