Year in Review

Thank you once again for visiting ThisIsCT.net throughout the year. 2007 was an amazing year, we more than doubled the amount of website visitors from the previous year to over 200,000 visitors from around the world.


Where the website visitors are from:
A quick sampling includes visitors from United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Uruguay, China, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Korea, South, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Belgium and more. In 2008 I'll be looking at adding language support to the website for our international visitors.


In the year-end tradition of making lists (I do love a list!) I'd like to take a look back at some of the most popular blog posts and web pages for thisisct.net in 2007, these are not in any particular order.

No surprise, this December you wanted to visit some of Connecticut's popular Christmas Light Displays this year.

And during the holiday season you were also looking for some Uniquely Connecticut Gifts to give.

Also, popular, the hockey schedules for the Hartford Wolfpack and the Bridgeport Soundtigers.


During the summer Governor Rell wanted us all to do One Thing Green. Watch for more information on this, including a big convention event coming in 2008...


On the Fourth of July there was something other than fireworks in the sky in Meriden that grabbed the attention of a lot of visitors.

Buttonwood Farms Sunflowers and the Connecticut Wine Trail were popular pages and great places to visit.

July 21st marked the release of one of history's most popular books, Book 7 of the Harry Potter series, and the page for events and midnight parties was hot.

Speaking of Harry Potter, I had the thought in my head that since NBC 30's Gerry Brooks shaved off the mustache, he looks a lot like actor Alan Rickman who plays Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies. Gerry didn't really agree with me, see what you think for yourself.

And, speaking of NBC 30, there I was one morning in July with the morning news on in the background when I heard Brad Drazen and Keisha Grant talking about my website. I almost fell off my chair. They named ThisIsCT.net as the hotlink for the week. I was very excited....


This summer B and I took a trip to one of my favorite places in Connecticut, Mystic Aquarium, and I was glad to share my photos with you. I didn't get out to take too many photos this year, however the places I did see were the return of the Cow Parade to West Hartford, the parade of Scarecrows Along Main Street in Old Wethersfield, and two places I'd never visited in Connecticut, Colebrook Dam and Saville Dam and Barkhamsted Reservoir.

As always, in New England where we go and what we do depends on the weather, we are Weather Watchers, and the Connecticut Weather Links and Web Cam links were extremely popular.

We started off in January 2007 with Senator Christopher Dodd announcing a Presidential bid, I thought it was too early, but what do I know?

The most popular link of the year on ThisIsCT.net, was not one I would have thought of. A surprise to me, the most popular link - since July - was for people seeking a glance inside 50 Cent's huge Farmington mansion.

I'm looking forward to 2008!
Cheers!
- Linzi