As I like to do every year, here are the top 10 people who emailed me this year:

1. Toni Schneider — 914
2. Maya Desai — 672
3. Mom — 475
4. Raanan Bar-Cohen — 284
5. Barry Abrahamson — 276
6. Rose Goldman — 256
7. Jane Wells — 193
8. Michael Pick — 185
9. Donncha O Caoimh — 179
10. Alex Shiels — 167

Email is my most frequently used social network, so it’s always interesting to see the trends.

This year I got 11,459 emails consider “important” by my script, or about 34 a day, and 53,030 “other” emails, excluding spam, mailing lists, and junk.

For the first time, I’ve decided to take a look at my outgoing emails as well, of which there were 9,101 of to 2,087 unique people, and here’s that list. These are less accurate because an email can be “to:” multiple people, or cc:s, but only ever From: one person, so the stats aren’t entirely correct for the to-list.

1. Toni Schneider — 524
2. Raanan Bar-Cohen — 450
3. Maya Desai — 428
4. Barry Abrahamson — 243
5. Rose Goldman — 212
6. Alex Shiels — 203
7. My Matt.WP.com moblog post-by-email address — 148
8. Michael Pick — 139
9. WordPress.com Support — 123
10. Andy Skelton — 108

I obviously need to email my Mom more. Here are my posting statistics:

My number of posts went down, but more words per post, so I’m posting less but meatier things. I made 391 comments myself last year, and it fell off rapidly after that. I would like to get more regular commenters next year, maybe by making the comment form more obvious on the photo pages. Photo pages draw the most repeat traffic.

I’m curious about travel stats, but haven’t gotten annual report from Dopplr yet.

Here were the top posts for 2009:

1. How P2 Changed Automattic
2. The Way I Work, annotated
3. A Day on Necker Island (gallery)
4. Starting a Bank
5. 6 Steps to Kill Your Community
6. New Spring Design
7. Sun, Oracle, WordPress, and MySQL
8. Elissa’s Wedding (gallery)
9. WordPress Party Pictures (gallery)
10. Visiting Shindo Labs (gallery)

As an update to last year’s post:

1. Toni Schneider — 1,052
2. Maya Desai — 826
3. Mom — 659
4. Raanan Bar-Cohen — 452
5. Donncha O Caoimh — 424
6. Barry Abrahamson — 386
7. Mark Riley — 222
8. Jane Wells — 218
9. Ryan Boren — 200
10. Andrew Ozz — 197
11. Matt Thomas — 193
12. Liz Danzico — 148
13. Mike Hirshland — 144
14. Heather Rasley — 139
15. Joseph Scott — 129

I’ve expanded the list to 15. A lot of the same folks at the very top, but new faces in Liz and Jane from 2.5 and 2.7 usability cycles. Also three people on the list have changed their domain in the past year, just like I did. It must have been a year for that.

Also for fun here are some yearly posting stats courtesy of Alex’s queries:

As you can see I’m doing fewer posts with fewer words than ever, but getting more comments. At this rate I’ll be down to 40 words per post next year. Yay brevity. 😉

Working on collating some travel / WordCamp stats.