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.