Top posts of 2016

2017-01-04 2 min read

    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:

    2016 pageviews

    Top Posts written in 2016

    PagePageviewsUnique PageviewsAvg. Time on PageEntrancesBounce Rate% ExitPage Value
    /2016/10/02/ios-wifi-security-recommendation/2,6282,5460:02:032,54397.09%96.80%$0.00
    /2016/01/17/poor-neglected-google-voice/7997640:03:2575694.58%93.87%$0.00
    /2016/05/08/googles-photo-search-is-eerily-incredible/6646430:01:4563296.52%95.33%$0.00
    /2016/07/03/snapchats-massive-potential/6335960:02:3258993.04%92.58%$0.00
    /2016/07/16/whatever-happened-to-automatic-login/4474320:00:5642797.89%95.97%$0.00
    /2016/09/23/a-smarter-touch-id/3753690:00:1936598.63%97.33%$0.00
    /2016/02/15/design-your-database-for-flexibility3733610:03:0635692.42%91.69%$0.00
    /2016/04/30/text-is-king/2292030:03:0218388.52%82.53%$0.00
    /2016/04/05/the-best-code-is-no-code/2171750:01:1716291.98%76.04%$0.00
    /2016/06/22/messaging-app-fragmentation/2142060:03:0919996.48%94.86%$0.00

    Top Posts seen in 2016

    PagePageviewsUnique PageviewsAvg. Time on PageEntrancesBounce Rate% ExitPage Value
    /2013/08/26/extract-info-from-a-web-page-using-javascript/3,5383,0760:04:383,06791.62%85.81%$0.00
    /2016/10/02/ios-wifi-security-recommendation/2,6282,5460:02:032,54397.09%96.80%$0.00
    /2013/12/23/getting-a-sim-card-in-india/1,5131,4430:01:271,44294.80%93.72%$0.00
    /2014/02/10/using-virtualenv-in-production/1,0971,0390:05:091,03592.17%92.80%$0.00
    /2016/01/17/poor-neglected-google-voice/7997640:03:2575694.58%93.87%$0.00
    /2014/07/15/set-up-https-on-ec2-running-nginx-without-elb/7567180:06:3571694.41%94.31%$0.00
    /2016/05/08/googles-photo-search-is-eerily-incredible/6646430:01:4563296.52%95.33%$0.00
    /2015/09/24/mapping-the-jersey-city-parking-zones-ii/6595920:02:4458290.03%88.01%$0.00
    /2016/07/03/snapchats-massive-potential/6335960:02:3258993.04%92.58%$0.00
    /2013/01/09/web-scraping-like-a-pro/4574310:07:5943091.40%91.47%$0.00