2012 New Years Eve fireworks worldwide and our website in 2011

By Rob Aid

1 January 2012

Happy New Year! As in last couple of years, the first day of the new year is reserved for our report where we publish information about our website and our favorite compilation of fireworks display around the world after the whole world celebrated New Years Eve. You can watch the Fireworks around the globe in 2012 New Years Eve videos bellow. The compilation video will be changed to our favorite fireworks display video if a better video gets published.

We are glad that the quality of our articles is recognized by increased number of visitors as well as by references from many popular websites, reputable universities and companies. This year we had a significant increase of feedback from researchers, designers, architects and companies we contacted for more information or resources. We would like to thank them for their cooperation and fast responses.

The website design went through a major alteration. We widened the content and increased the readability of our news and articles. In order to increase the readability we deleted the advertisement at the top of our articles and added an advert at the website header. As usual, we gave a lot of attention to the website performance and optimization, and we managed to make it load even faster than before. We hope that you liked our changes and that you noticed the difference in website loading as well.
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Due to unexplained issues with Google Adsense in November 2011, our only source of income decided to terminate our agreement. We’re considering other available solutions regarding advertisement on our website, and we’ll provide more information about how you can advertise or support RobAid in near future.

Here are the numbers for those who like statistics. We published over 260 news and articles in 2011. The number of visitors is steadily rising, currently ranging from 1,400 to 2,500 unique visitors per day. The total of unique visitors ranged from a bit over 14,000 in January, to almost 35,000 per month by the end of the year. Year totals for 2011 are 542,573 for visits, and 3,433,204 for page views.

In a couple of our next articles we’re going to publish lists of our most popular news and articles by categories, and here are the overall top 10 most popular articles that were published in 2011: