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 (-).
The list of most popular posts (by page views last year):
- Fixing Japanese and Chinese IME problem [EN] – 1270 (+1149), as i was checking stats regularly i knew this will be at the top, but these numbers are still surprising. My guess this is just some keyword attracting bots, but this was the article i got the only somewhat human looking comment on through out this year. So, maybe people are actually looking for solutions with Chinese IME on the latest Windows versions.
- Fixing Windows Defender RCE vulnerability in mpengine.dll [EN] – 625 (+370), again, surprisingly, going strong this year (article from 2021);
- Very Basic Openfire + Spark Guide [EN] – 306 (+50), this old article still managed to have positive growth, but was misplaced from the top by the two new anomalous outliers this time. Maybe a few years later it will be at the top again? 🙂
- SMTP Server As a Relay to Exchange Online [EN] – 274 (+227), another 2021 post going up; guess this is because of old Exchange versions going EOL and people needing some solution to keep scanners sending documents to email;
- Office 365 – Deleting users with the same UPN and Display Name [EN] – 264 (+77), this one is not even funny anymore; 2017 completely irrelevant post, refusing to die off;
- Fixing SSL error when accessing XenServer after KB3175024 update [EN] – 176 (+15), my first hot post, still holding on;
- Update Connectivity – You are just not updating it right – 163 (+119), was expecting this to drop thinking it was just a blimp from LinkedIn repost. But seeing how “windows update” tag also has high traffic, i guess people are looking into Windows update topics.
- Enterprise Mode changes in Edge browser [EN] – 144 (-62), first negative change on this list; kind of understandable as IE is gone for almost a year and people already have all the kinks worked out with IE mode;
- Windows 7 – Windows Update check speedup [EN] – 123 (+90), after a drop another surge; Windows 12 is on the horizon and 7 is still not letting it go 🙂
- Enabling Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11 and Edge [EN] – 98 (-52), same as related IE mode article, dropped a bit as expected;
- Office 365 – moving mail aliases in the synchronized environment [EN] – 67 (new), 2017 article suddenly getting views. Probably as well related to old Exchange versions getting obsolete and more people getting into Exchange Online.
- WSUS woes with Windows 10 [EN] – 58 (back), last year two most popular WSUS related posts only got 34 views combined and this time it decided to come back. WSUS tag also got 44 views.
- XenServer cleanup [EN] – 41 (+3), last year first time added it to the list and it is with positive change still somehow;
- Windows 11 Moment 4 and 23H2 – 38 (new), first post from last year in the top. Reposted on LinkedIn and got a lot of reactions there. As usual, hoping for a lot more views with these articles, but only getting a few. It was posted just 2 months ago though, so its total number of views still will grow, but probably won’t be enough to make next year’s top. And by that time there will be a few more Moment updates for Windows 11 or even 12 version announced.
- Simulating Internet Explorer retirement scenario – 36 (-65), all topics regarding IE mode and IE retirement have negative numbers this year;
- Star Trek – The Next Generation [LT] – 32 (new), amusing to see this old review in Lithuanian about Star Trek TV series. Suddenly fellow Lithuanians got interested in Trek 🙂 And i still haven’t finished Deep Space Nine.
Home page last year got 364 views (-109). Windows update tag received 184 views (new) and WSUS – 44 (+6). About page received a bit less traffic – 28 (-10). Usually when i post in LinkedIn i get more views on About and other pages on my site.