{"id":9232,"date":"2023-01-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/?p=9232"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T17:41:12","slug":"blog-review-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/blog-review-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Review \u2013 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve enjoyed these past two weeks of looking back at 2022 and looking forward to 2023. I’ll likely keep this same set of posts for future years, although perhaps not in the same order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like with yesterday’s Goodreads reading challenge post<\/a>, I haven’t ever dedicated a post to my blog stats. So today, I’m fixing that oversight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I’m well aware that the stats I have available to me are almost certainly tainted by bots, etc. But, they’re still fun to look through. I know<\/em> there are some other data nerds out there, so this post goes out to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All-Time Stats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With five and a half years of blog posts, there are, of course, a lot of stats I could share. But, I won’t bore you with tons of details. Instead, I want to highlight the ones that are most interesting to me. Keep in mind that 2017 only had half a year, as I started my blog on June 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total Views: 86,217 | Total Posts: 550 | Total Words: 376,303<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stat<\/th>2017<\/th>2018<\/th>2019<\/th>2020<\/th>2021<\/th>2022<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Views<\/td>1,133<\/td>5,593<\/td>16,301<\/td>9,242<\/td>15,730<\/td>36,463<\/td><\/tr>
Avg. Views per Day<\/td>7<\/td>15<\/td>44<\/td>25<\/td>43<\/td>101<\/td><\/tr>
Posts<\/td>70<\/td>137<\/td>79<\/td>21<\/td>136<\/td>104<\/td><\/tr>
Words<\/td>46.6K<\/td>99.7K<\/td>27.4K<\/td>23.7K<\/td>88.2K<\/td>90.8K<\/td><\/tr>
Avg. Words per Post<\/td>666<\/td>728<\/td>347<\/td>1,126<\/td>648<\/td>873<\/td><\/tr>
Book Posts<\/td>41<\/td>73<\/td>26<\/td>14<\/td>10<\/td>12<\/td><\/tr>
Fountain Pen Posts<\/td>6<\/td>41<\/td>45<\/td>2<\/td>87<\/td>78<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2022 Stats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I ran the below metrics for all of 2022, and only<\/em> 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top Countries by Views<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Some of the countries in my top ten were no surprise \u2014 hello to all my fellow Americans. Others, however, I can’t account for, although I’m reluctant to call them anomalies based on the numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m impressed with how widespread blog views are. I wonder how many of them are bots or hackers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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  1. United States \u2013 23,660<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. United Kingdom \u2013 2,020<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Canada \u2013 1,606<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Germany \u2013 1,389<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Australia \u2013 711<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Spain \u2013 525<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. India \u2013 521<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Netherlands \u2013 463<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Singapore \u2013 438<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. France \u2013 433<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Top Referrers by Views<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    A referrer is a webpage that sends visitors to a site \u2014 in this case, mine \u2014 using a link. In other words, it’s the webpage that a person was on right before they landed on my site. I’m only including referrers that hit double digits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Search Engines \u2013 5,679\n