Category: General

Another year in the books. Literally. If it wasn’t for Microsoft releasing new Windows version every year, this blog would only be about reviewing books. As usual, i am still in the middle of another book by the end of the year. But this time it’s a really big and kind of boring book (unexpectedly after seeing glowing ratings), so i couldn’t squeeze it into 2024 and it will take a big chunk of 2025 to finish it. I have continued to do book reviews in English, except for one book of Lithuanian author, which i felt was fitting to write about in the same language. It doesn’t seem that English reviews got more attention, but will see below in Matomo stats. Same articles will be in the top as last year for the same reasons (bots).

• Posted 10 entries (-7):
  • Technology – 1 (-2), sole Windows 11 24H2 article;
  • Books – 7 (-4), less books read, but it feels i was reading the same amount as last year; there were a few books that i read “in one gulp” (Prey, Old Man’s War), but there was also one that made me take long breaks before coming back and finishing it (lowest review score probably);
  • General – 2 (-).
• Same like last year – just 1 comment that looked like real one. And again, same article that gets most traffic. Maybe a bot, but doesn’t seem like one and only said “thank you”, didn’t try to sell something or ask to visit their website 🙂 (-).

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2023 is done. This year decided not to migrate to a new version of Google Analytics but ditch it completely. Matomo is more than enough for me. Don’t recall any hiccups with statistics or blog in general. Although i try to check it every few days after that SSL issue last fall. Not that many articles this year again, but i was reading much more, so a lot more reviews than usual. This helped balance out numbers as there were not many technology articles this year. But a few older articles, that started to get traction at the end of last year, blew up. Again, for reasons unknown to me. Last month i have decided to start doing book reviews in English. It seems easier for me to write about books like that. Wonder if that can get a bit more views.

• Posted 17 entries (+3):
  • Technology – 3 (-3), dropped even lower; only posting about new Windows releases lately;
  • Reviews – 11 (+6), more books read;
  • Books – 11 (+7), unexpectedly to myself read a lot more this year and if i keep the pace, next year this number can grow even more; btw, actually read 13 books (one post was about a trilogy);
  • General – 2 (-), same posts about blog anniversary and yearly stats like every year;
  • Artwork – 1 (-);
  • Movies – 0 (-1), another dying category here; have not gone to Kinopavasaris movie fest this year again; only seen one movie this year (Oppenheimer), which was great, but didn’t feel like posting about it;
  • Board Games – 0 (-1), not playing, not watching videos about them or reading news;
  • Top 10 – 0 (-1);
• Same like last year 1 comment approved that looked like real one. And that is on one of the articles that lead traffic recently (-).

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2022 was another less active year. With especially long hiatus from posting between March and August. Haven’t read anything at that time or watched any special movies or series to write about and i guess spring and summer was not that hot on tech news for me. But there were a few popular articles about IE deprecation and latest Windows 11 update, which i reposted on LinkedIn and they got a bit more of a traffic. A few older articles got lots of attention this year for some reason. In September there was an issue with SSL plugin i use and for a few days only home page was accessible, until i finally noticed and fixed it. Shouldn’t affect overall stats that much, though.

• Posted 14 entries (-12):
  • Technology – 6 (-9), this is probably what my average will be from now on;
  • Reviews – 5 (-1), similar to last year;
  • Books – 4 (+2), the only category with positive difference and i almost completed another book, but didn’t want to rush it to complete by the new year. My reading numbers are kind of steady now.
  • General – 2 (-);
  • Movies – 1 (-2), have only posted my thoughts on different movies based on “I am Legend” book . Last year even skipped Kinopavasaris movie fest which i was going to for so many years. Maybe i will get back into it next year.
  • Board Games – 1 (-1), the only thing i posted was my stats post for 2021 and i skipped doing it this time, so this category might go to zero. Have cooled on board games in general.
  • Artwork – 1 (-1);
  • Top 10 – 1 (-);
  • TV series – 0 (-).
• I have approved one comment this year, which might still be spam, but it seemed real enough. Someone thanking on a very old board game review (+1).

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This year has a lot less posts as i have stopped doing M365 news in January. I still post in Technology category occasionally and some new articles get some views, but not that many. Also sometimes i repost in LinkedIn and i get some traffic from there. I have decided to post about interesting M365 news directly on LinkedIn. Got tired of collecting all the news and summarizing them. Again a few posts about board games, books. Will use Matomo for page views stats this year again. Because numbers differ from Google Analytics (Matomo has a bit higher count) and it will be better to compare with numbers from the same system.

• Posted 26 entries (-50):
  • Technology – 15 (-36), stopped doing M365 news, also decided not to post Firefox release notes, so next year will have even less posts;
  • Reviews – 6 (-12), less books read, less movies or TV series watched;
  • Movies – 3 (-5), only 3 movies watched during Kinopavasaris, no completed TV series to write about, but i have watched lots of old movies, starting with all James Bond films;
  • Books – 2 (-6), bad year for reading, only managed to finish two first books in Dune series;
  • Board Games – 2 (-2), only 1 review in LT for Carcassonne and yearly stats, not playing that much either;
  • General – 2 (-);
  • Artwork – 2 (-);
  • Top 10 – 1 (-);
  • TV series – 0 (-1).
• No comments this year (-2).

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Last year i have mentioned that i have started using Matomo. But it was in the middle of 2019, so i couldn’t use it for annual stats. Now that i have used Matomo for a complete year and also given the fact that i’ve screwed up in February by uninstalling old Google Analytics add-in in WordPress without realizing it is actually connecting my page to GA (i have lost 20 days of stats because of it), i decided to use Matomo numbers instead of GA for page views this time. I have compared them and they of course are very similar. Matomo numbers are a bit higher. Not sure if it counts differently or because of that 20 days gap in GA. But i like higher numbers better 😀 Will see, maybe next year i will go back to GA numbers or maybe i will get rid of Google Analytics completely. Although it is nice to have two options, if one suddenly stops working. The 2020 stats:

• Posted 76 entries (-36):
  • Technology – 51 (-37), there were no Insider build posts at all this year, now i am only posting about final releases of next Windows 10 versions; about the same amount of Microsoft 365 news and a few other articles here and there (Android, Spark);
  • Reviews – 18 (new), this is a new category which combines my reviews for books, movies, TV series, so the number is high;
  • Books – 8 (+1), just finished last book a day ago to make this number higher 😀 ;
  • Board Games – 4 (-3);
  • Movies – 8 (+5), last year i have explored the option of watching Kinopavasaris movies digitally at home, so i have watched more movies this way and i kind of liked it;
  • General – 2 (-1);
  • Artwork – 2 (+1);
  • Top 10 – 1 (-);
  • TV series – 1 (+1).
• Removed Next Game category (it is now Board Games and Reviews combined) and a few other old categories that didn’t have any posts for years.
• Have received even two comments this year (+2) and actually replied to one of them. And also received an email regarding one of the articles. Btw, started using Antispam Bee because older plugin became a bloated money grab. This one is very good dealing with spam comments and is free.

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