Blog annual stats (v2020)

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.

The list of most popular posts (by page views last year):

As i could predict many older Windows 10 or WSUS posts dropped from the top. And new one about 2004 version of Windows 10 only gathered 25 views. That one movie review that shot to the sky last year because it was scheduled on a local TV and people were looking for information on it, of course it is nowhere to be seen this time around. The most popular Microsoft 365 news post was from February 3d (24 views). My home page received similar number of views (452). WSUS tag on the other hand went through the roof – 636 (+520). Technology and Board Games category go toe to toe (55 and 54).

Matomo for some reason shows every other visit as coming from US (even when it is LT, UK or something else), so it can’t be trusted. And i had a gap in Google Analytics data. So this time will not post how views are segmented by countries. As usual most views are from Lithuania and US is close second.

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