I reviewed my blog posts in 2012 and rated them on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 indicates my favourite posts – the ones I want to keep around and refer back to, or the ones that represent key moments in my life.

I’ve been pretty good at keeping to ~1 post a day, although travel and family time meant I was away from my computer during much of September.

Year-by-year comparison:

Observation: I write fewer posts, but I feel better about them.

Number of words in 2012: ~133,000 (~ 380 words per post)

• Flesch reading ease: 62 (down from last year’s 65)
• Gunning Fog index: 12 (up from last year’s 11)
• Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 9.2 (up from last year’s 8.4)
• Unique words: 9,318

Observation: Fewer words, but bigger ones.

Looking at the three-word phrases I used the most, I can see that I continue to use my blog for a lot of planning. They’re mostly the same as last year’s words, except that “a lot of” has dropped down to fourth place from second.

For comparison, here’s the analysis from last year, and here’s the post spreadsheet with ratings.