Last year was the least active so far. Only 6 posts total. One of them being similar post like this about last year’s stats. One was a usual post with NY card artwork. One for blog’s anniversary. You can also say that Windows feature release post for 25H2 was also a regular post as i do it every year. So, truly original posts were one book review and my last post of 2025 about apps on my phone. Review was for a book that was partially the reason for less output last year. As it took me almost a year to finish it, because it was a huge book and kind of boring. I have since started another one, which again felt like a slug, but it is starting to get interesting. I am at 30%, was not able to finish it for 2025, but will likely be done early 2026. This is another crazy stat. Just one book for 2025. Well, this year was not an ordinary one. I have lost my job (worked there for 6 years), found new one and finished first 3 months at it already. Will see what next year brings.
- Posted 6 entries (-4):
- Technology – 2 (+1), usual Windows 11 feature update article and What’s on my phone post is kind of tech related;
- General – 2 (-);
- Books – 1 (-6), as mentioned, just one single book finished and i have even started in 2024, this will go up in 2026 for sure;
- There was one comment in December on my older article about fixing Japanese/Chinese keyboard issue on Windows 10. It looked human enough, so i have approved it. Four years in a row that i receive one single comment for a year 🙂
The list of most popular posts (by page views last year):
- Fixing Japanese and Chinese IME problem [EN] – 1136 (-317) speaking about a single comment i have received. This article still is number one by received page views, although it had dropped a lot. The comment makes me hopeful it is actually being useful for someone.
- Fixing Windows Defender RCE vulnerability in mpengine.dll [EN] – 265 (-199) another big drop; if this pattern holds, it might disappear from the list next year;
- Very Basic Openfire + Spark Guide [EN] – 257 (-82) dropped a bit, but managed to stay in 3rd;
- Windows 7 – Windows Update check speedup [EN] – 199 (-128);
- Fixing SSL error when accessing XenServer after KB3175024 update [EN] – 153 (-116) glad it is still holding on, although the drop is bigger than usual, but every article has similar drops, so it probably will remain in the top;
- SMTP Server As a Relay to Exchange Online [EN] – 87 (-164) should be more relevant now as Exchange 2016/2019 versions became obsolete, but as with everything numbers dropped a lot;
- Enabling Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11 and Edge [EN] – 69 (-11), surprisingly the drop is smaller than last year;
- Office 365 – Deleting users with the same UPN and Display Name [EN] – 65 (-154), could it be this one is finally on its way out of the top? The long standing mystery of why it gathered so much views over the years.
- Jack London – The Little Lady of the Big House – 52 (new), that’s a surprise; one of the lowest ratings i gave in a book review, posted in 2024. Maybe negative reviews get more attention 🙂
- WSUS woes with Windows 10 [EN] – 52 (-7), the smallest drop; this old article keeps hanging on around 10th place.
Below are not in top 10, but some interesting cases:
- Top 10 Board Games Mechanisms [EN] – 23 (new), that’s a first time any article about board games (and one of the oldest) actually generated some views;
- Michael Crichton – Prey – 20 (+9), this is like the only positive this year; i am happy if my review convinced someone to give this incredible book a try;
Looks like every article has big drops of page views. I saw a post on another blog how AI is reducing direct traffic to websites. Could be an explanation of such unusual decrease. Although, if decrease is indeed due to AI, then it would mean i had so many real human views in the past 🙂 Home page received a big increase of views – 771 (+397), but i have just recently noticed that the cookie that should help exclude my own visits was not working anymore, so this increase could very well be my own activity checking the site after WordPress updates or just to see if it is still working. So, next year i expect this number to drop by hundreds. And i am curious how much more traffic will decrease. Glad i am not depending on ads income in these times of exploitation by AI companies.