Year in Review

Last year, I made a New Year’s resolution to post something on this blog every week for a whole year. At the time I made that resolution, that meant that I’d have to write 50 blog posts before the end of the year. If I count correctly, this post makes 46 total. Not perfect, but not bad. At one point, I even had a buffer that was several weeks long!

One of the things that I was curious about going in was what the effect of an increased post volume would be on my pageviews. According to Google Analytics, my number of visits increased by 40% from this time last year. Most of my traffic came from search engines or referrals from Facebook, and most people came for my esoteric tips or my crotchety advice.

For those who like looking at graphs (because really, who doesn’t?), here’s my weekly “views” every week this year (blue) vs. last year (orange):

Truth be told, I started to run out of things to say sometime in November. We’ll see if I keep this post-a-week thing going into 2012, but it’s been an interesting experiment at the very least. Happy New Year!