Blog readership is dropping

My blog readership has been falling for several years. It was even lower in 2018. I am not sure if the cause is my gradual shift away from "how-to" style posts to more of a focus on photo blogging. Perhaps it's time to return to a weekly schedule of one opinion posts, one technical post and one photography post. Perhaps I can remove the beer check-ins.

I summarized the JetPack Annual Reports for Island in the Net from 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Automattic did not release a report for 2016 and 2017. Pity. However, I used information in my WordPress dashboard to get at some of the information.

Blog stats for 2011.

This blog was viewed about 96,000 times in 2011. In 2011, there were 13 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 69 posts. The busiest day of that year was October 13th with 531 views. The most popular post that day was Untitled.

This blog had 33,000 views in 2012. In 2012, there were 186 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 540 posts. The busiest day of that year was December 27th with 279 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

This blog was viewed about 62,000 times in 2013. In 2013, there were 324 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 908 posts. The busiest day of that year was January 3rd with 929 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

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This blog was viewed about 37,000 times in 2014. The busiest day of that year was December 18th with 3,325 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2015. The busiest day of that year was January 6th with 1,574 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

This blog was viewed about 23,271 times in 2016.

This blog was viewed about 21,607 times in 2017.

2016 Blog Report

It seems WordPress.com has done away with the annual blog report they typically release in January of the previous year. As a JetPack user, I get this report for each of the blogs I have connected to WordPress.com through that plugin. Although I didn't see any official announcements, I think WordPress.com have done away with this feature.

stats

In 2016 15,141 visitors viewed my blog 23,271 times, and I published 130 posts. Most of the visitors come from the USA with most of the rest coming from Germany, United Kingdom, Canada and France. The top 3 of most viewed posts were HDR photography with Raspberry Pi, Create a Multi-Room Wireless Speaker System with Apple Airport Express and AirPlay, and OS X Terminal Session Management.

The most visited post is one from August 2012 with 4,443 views HDR photography with Raspberry Pi. The second is Create a Multi-Room Wireless Speaker System with Apple Airport Express and AirPlay with 1401 views, followed in third by OS X Terminal Session Management with 1,187 views.

Thank you all for visiting my blog in 2016. I hope to see you in 2017.