Looking back over the last year, I can say that I ’m proud to have launched this blog and to have written, more or less, regularly. I was never good at writing and still lack the skills of a good writer. As with every new skill, it ’s about practice, practice, practice, and losing the fear of making mistakes in front of others.
Everything started with my first blog post over at Blogspot at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, when I moved the blog to Heroku, I also lost the statistics from that time.
All in all, I have written a total of 17 posts (this one excluded), resulting in the following statistics that I pulled from my Google Analytics account.
- Visits: 2245
- Unique visitors: 1728
- Page hits: 3585
Now, let’s look at the traffic.
There are three observations from this: two spikes and an overall increase in traffic.
The first spike was generated after I posted “The Java Leap Second Bug” and left a “Thank you!” comment on the blog where I found the solution.
The second spike happened when @portertech, the author of Sensu, retweeted my announcement of “The Book of Sensu”.
The third observation is an overall increase in unique page hits.
Here are the top three posts:
- Creating Virtual Images with VeeWee (489 hits)
- “The Java Leap Second Bug” (484 hits)
- Installing Graphite on CentOS 6.2 (332 hits)
My top three referrers are:
- blog.wpkg.org (the blog where I found the solution to the Java Leap Second Bug)
I want to conclude this post with some resolutions for the new year:
- Finish “The Book of Sensu”
- Contribute to Sensu
- Write lots of useful blog posts
Wish you all the best for the next year.
Done for this year!