Blogger.Com seems to have introduced a few new skills. I can now keep tune of what number of web web page perspectives my blog gets in overall (1,234 in the final month, that is extra than I predicted), see which different websites have driven web page visitors to mine (in popular Google), or even see wherein inside the international my readers are located. (Most of my hits within the past month have come from the us, however the 2nd-largest percentage got here from Russia?How weird is that? I suggest, they do not even use the identical alphabet.)
One of the maximum thrilling abilities for me changed into the capability to peer what number of views anyone access has obtained. I without a doubt spent a 1/2 hour or so browsing thru the listing to look which entries have been the most famous, and I decided which you all is probably involved to look them too (and in all likelihood take a look at them in case you ignored them the number one time around). So here they're, my Top Ten Hits:
#1, with 108 hits: Killer Tofu, which discusses what appear to be a few loopy conspiracy theories related to soy merchandise and then goes on to talk approximately how tofu measures as plenty as special protein assets from an ecofrugal element of view.
#2, with one zero one hits: Frugality as opposed to simplicity, which explores the pros and cons of
#3, with 75 hits: Lowe's en espanol, a complaint about the fact that the English-language version of Lowe's sale flier features higher-priced products than the Spanish-language version.
#4, with 73 hits: The Paradox of Efficiency, in which I dispute John Tierney's argument that higher energy-efficiency standards actually result in greater total energy use.
#5, with 67 hits: Make it do or do without, a couple of examples from my own life of cases in which an old, patched-up item is actually better than anything that could be purchased new.
#6, with 65 hits: The Resource Equation, which lays out the principle that an ecofrugal decision must balance money against other available resources, including time, materials, and effort.
#7, with 63 hits: Repair or replace?, my first attempt to come up with a useful all-purpose formula for figuring out when it's better to fix up an old item and when it's better to buy a new one. (I explored this question further in Repair or replace, part 2; Repair or replace, part 3; and Repair or replace revisited.)
#8, with 61 hits: Furniture mods, which shows off a couple of projects in which we altered old pieces of furniture to make them fit our space.
#10, with 53 hits (tie): Save Highland Park...from what?, a recent post in which I gripe about local NIMBYs trying to stop "high-density development" on the basis of what I consider to be entirely specious arguments.
#10, with 53 hits (tie): Tinkering, another post about various little projects that Brian and I (well, okay, Brian) did around the house with what we had available.
I'm not sure just what it is about these ten posts in particular that made them more popular than others, but if anyone figures it out, let me know, and I'll try to write more along the same lines.
