I’ve been writing two posts a week since the beginning of 2013 and at this point I have quite a few articles - some are one hit wonders, others are completely forgotten, while a select few are “evergreen” and are able to continually attract readers. With the start of 2017 I’ve seen a ton of bloggers doing a post highlighting their top posts from 2016 so I figured it would be fun to do the same. The data was all fetched using Google Analytics but there was a week long gap in early September when I deliberately broke the tracking while upgrading the blog to AMP. While I was hoping to get some increased growth in 2016 the total traffic ended up being pretty close to that 2015. A goal for 2017 is to focus more on evergreen posts with the goal being to build a larger audience with posts that are less responsive to the news and more about providing real value. And now on to the data:
Top Posts written in 2016
| Page | Pageviews | Unique Pageviews | Avg. Time on Page | Entrances | Bounce Rate | % Exit | Page Value |
|---|
| /2016/10/02/ios-wifi-security-recommendation/ | 2,628 | 2,546 | 0:02:03 | 2,543 | 97.09% | 96.80% | $0.00 |
| /2016/01/17/poor-neglected-google-voice/ | 799 | 764 | 0:03:25 | 756 | 94.58% | 93.87% | $0.00 |
| /2016/05/08/googles-photo-search-is-eerily-incredible/ | 664 | 643 | 0:01:45 | 632 | 96.52% | 95.33% | $0.00 |
| /2016/07/03/snapchats-massive-potential/ | 633 | 596 | 0:02:32 | 589 | 93.04% | 92.58% | $0.00 |
| /2016/07/16/whatever-happened-to-automatic-login/ | 447 | 432 | 0:00:56 | 427 | 97.89% | 95.97% | $0.00 |
| /2016/09/23/a-smarter-touch-id/ | 375 | 369 | 0:00:19 | 365 | 98.63% | 97.33% | $0.00 |
| /2016/02/15/design-your-database-for-flexibility | 373 | 361 | 0:03:06 | 356 | 92.42% | 91.69% | $0.00 |
| /2016/04/30/text-is-king/ | 229 | 203 | 0:03:02 | 183 | 88.52% | 82.53% | $0.00 |
| /2016/04/05/the-best-code-is-no-code/ | 217 | 175 | 0:01:17 | 162 | 91.98% | 76.04% | $0.00 |
| /2016/06/22/messaging-app-fragmentation/ | 214 | 206 | 0:03:09 | 199 | 96.48% | 94.86% | $0.00 |
Top Posts seen in 2016
| Page | Pageviews | Unique Pageviews | Avg. Time on Page | Entrances | Bounce Rate | % Exit | Page Value |
|---|
| /2013/08/26/extract-info-from-a-web-page-using-javascript/ | 3,538 | 3,076 | 0:04:38 | 3,067 | 91.62% | 85.81% | $0.00 |
| /2016/10/02/ios-wifi-security-recommendation/ | 2,628 | 2,546 | 0:02:03 | 2,543 | 97.09% | 96.80% | $0.00 |
| /2013/12/23/getting-a-sim-card-in-india/ | 1,513 | 1,443 | 0:01:27 | 1,442 | 94.80% | 93.72% | $0.00 |
| /2014/02/10/using-virtualenv-in-production/ | 1,097 | 1,039 | 0:05:09 | 1,035 | 92.17% | 92.80% | $0.00 |
| /2016/01/17/poor-neglected-google-voice/ | 799 | 764 | 0:03:25 | 756 | 94.58% | 93.87% | $0.00 |
| /2014/07/15/set-up-https-on-ec2-running-nginx-without-elb/ | 756 | 718 | 0:06:35 | 716 | 94.41% | 94.31% | $0.00 |
| /2016/05/08/googles-photo-search-is-eerily-incredible/ | 664 | 643 | 0:01:45 | 632 | 96.52% | 95.33% | $0.00 |
| /2015/09/24/mapping-the-jersey-city-parking-zones-ii/ | 659 | 592 | 0:02:44 | 582 | 90.03% | 88.01% | $0.00 |
| /2016/07/03/snapchats-massive-potential/ | 633 | 596 | 0:02:32 | 589 | 93.04% | 92.58% | $0.00 |
| /2013/01/09/web-scraping-like-a-pro/ | 457 | 431 | 0:07:59 | 430 | 91.40% | 91.47% | $0.00 |
