Best wishes for a very Hoppy New Year to all our Tripawds members, fans and followers! We hope you all have a healthy and prosperous 2012.

The stat monkeys at WordPress just sent us an interesting run-down of blog activities for Tripawds.com so we thought we'd share what's been going on around here this year.

London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. Jerry's Tripawds News blog was viewed about 350,000 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it would take about 4 sold-out events for that many people to see it.

In 2011, we published 84 new posts, growing the total blog archive of 602 posts by Jerry. This does not include the Tripawds Featured Blogs or all the Tripawds member Blogs.

For some reason, the busiest day of the year was January 25th with 1,709 views. As usual, the most popular post that day was the Tripawds Forums page. The Tripawds News blog post for that day was Jerry's list of Tripawds Grief Support Resources.

How did everyone find us?

The top referring sites in 2011 were:

• facebook.com
• simple-press.com
• nutrition.tripawds.com
• pbs.org
• gear.tripawds.com

Some visitors came searching, mostly for tripawds, tripawds forum, bear, three legged dog, and tripawds.com. That "bear" business still perplexes us. We often notice vistors finding Tripawds after searching for "Bear" and we can only assume that Bear the Big Brave Three Legged Dog has lots of friends.

Most visitors came from The United States. Canada & The United Kingdom were not far behind.

Most Popular Tripawds posts of 2011

These are the posts that got the most views in 2011. You can see all of the year’s most-viewed posts in your Site Stats.

• Tripawds Discussion Forums
• Tripawds Blogs Directory
• Tripawds Photo Galleries
• Tripawds News Blog
• Ruff Wear Harness Best for Three Legged Dogs*

*The Ruff Wear dog support harness is now available in the Tripawds Gear Shop.

Many of Jerry's most popular posts were written before 2011.

Looking Ahead

2012 is sure to be another exciting year here at Tripawds. Our membership continues to grow, as do our vast resources. That Admin guy will be updating the site to the most current WordPress version soon, and we are expecting an important update soon for the Simple:Press plugin that powers our discussion forums which should help improve performance. We are also planning a major server upgrade to meet the demanding needs of our ever-expanding audience and could really use your help. We didn't hold a fundraising campaign this year and with your assistance we won't need to have one next year either.

What was your biggest memory from the Tripawds Community this year? And what would you like to see here in the future? Let us know with a comment here or on the original blog post!