The Brothers Brick

Brothers-Brick.com is two years old today! [Editorial]

Andrew Becraft (TBB Editor-in-Chief)

The Brothers Brick turned three a few months ago, but today is our second anniversary on Brothers-Brick.com.

And what a difference a second year on our own domain has made!

2008 stats 2007 stats
  • 5,973,090 page views
  • 2,006,339 visits
  • 820,532 unique visitors
  • 119,524 unique keywords from search engines
  • 36,382 spam comments
  • 12,307 real comments
  • 4,824 unique referring sites
  • 1,086,362 page views
  • 337,158 visits
  • 131,046 unique visitors
  • 15,062 unique keywords from search engines
  • 26,198 spam comments
  • 2,325 real comments
  • 1,567 unique referring sites

There are Brothers-Brick.com readers in 196 countries and regions around the world:

Notable additions since last year include Mongolia and Madagascar. Next year, we’re hoping to find readers in North Korea, Turkmenistan, and central Africa.

Here are a few of my favorite lists, based on statistics from this past year:

Top Countries Top Keywords Referring Sites
  1. USA
  2. UK
  3. Canada
  4. Australia
  5. Germany
  6. The Netherlands
  7. France
  8. Japan
  9. Poland
  10. Italy
  1. lego blog
  2. 2009 lego sets
  3. lego power miners
  4. lego agents
  5. lego castle advent calendar
  6. ramm lego
  7. lego wall-e
  8. lego pirates 2009
  9. lego
  10. brickarms
  1. Search engines
  2. StumbleUpon
  3. Flickr
  4. Gizmodo
  5. Digg
  6. BB Gadgets
  7. Brickset
  8. Eurobricks
  9. Classic-Castle.com
  10. The old blog
  11. Fark

With a couple of exceptions, our most popular posts in the past year have been news items:

  1. Ed Diment finishes HMS Hood — in 20-foot-long minifig scale!
  2. Zombie Apocafest 2008: Children, avert your eyes!
  3. Rocko summons the worm
  4. LEGO Star Wars 10188 Death Star pics reveal interior and 21+ minifigs
  5. 10193 Medieval Market Village to be released in 2009
  6. First pictures of 2009 LEGO sets
  7. Pixar animator Angus MacLane builds best LEGO Wall-E yet
  8. First pictures of 2009 LEGO Power Miners sets
  9. Possible 2009 LEGO sets
  10. First pictures of 4999 Vestas Windmill set

Most importantly, 2008 has been the year during which you the readers of The Brothers Brick have come together as an online community to nominate your own Ambassadors to The LEGO Group.

Finally, here are some links to historical posts for readers who care:

Here’s to many more years of creativity and community! We hope you’ll stick with The Brothers Brick for the ride. It’s going to be fun.

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