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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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This year i have started using Matomo to track visits and have noticed same IP addresses going often every few hours to the same pages. So, stats are a bit skewed by such bots, but in a grand scheme probably are not affected that much. Also, Matomo masks true IP and shows last part as 0.0, so i can’t tell if these are truly the same IPs and of course it is not possible to block them without knowing a real IP. The 2019 stats:

• Posted 110 entries (+38):
  • Technology – 88 (+32), although there were less Windows Insider posts, but i’ve explored various other topics like cloud services, Android, statistics, also started posting Microsoft 365 news a few times per month;
  • Books – 7 (+7), big increase, hope to keep reading as much and posting about it;
  • Board Games – 7 (+1);
  • Next Game – 6 (+2), reviewed 1 game more than last year;
  • Movies – 3 (-4), watched less movies during Kinopavasaris festival and in general, also not always posting about it, in total probably watched 5 movies this year;
  • General – 3 (+1);
  • Top 10 – 1 (-);
  • Artwork – 1 (+1).
• Sadly, no comments received this year.

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As usual, yearly stats of my blog for 2018:

• Posted 72 entries (-67 compared to last year, so it almost went back to 2016 results):
  • Technology – 56 (-18, slowed down a bit, less guides and tutorials, mainly Windows 10 Insider builds and other updates);
  • Movies – 7 (-1);
  • Board Games – 6 (-47, huge drop, mainly because stopped doing Board Games News, not many reviews either, maybe will do more this year);
  • Next Game – 4 (-12, less reviews last year; although every review is posted twice in LT and EN, so in reality not such a huge drop – 2 reviews vs 6);
  • General – 2 (+1);
  • Board Games News – 1 (-26, stopped doing these, it was taking lots of time and became boring);
  • Top 10 – 1 (-3, got lazy and combined 4 posts from last year into one:) );
  • TV series – 0 (-2, haven’t finished any new series during last year to write about);
  • Books – 0 (-1, i have read a few books last year, but didn’t want to write anything; actually finishing a few other books currently, so probably will post about them);
  • Artwork – 0 (-);
  • Live Session – 0 (-);
  • Yes-No – 0 (-).
• Received 2 comments. This time both were board games related for a change 🙂

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Same as last year putting here a bit of stats about my blog.

• Posted 139 entries (+61 compared to last year):
  • Technology – 74 (+55, mainly because i started covering every Windows 10 Insider build and Office 365);
  • Board Games – 53 (+10, this combines both news and reviews and a few other posts);
  • Board Games News – 27;
  • Next Game – 16 (+2);
  • Movies – 8 (-4, i have slowed down on watching lots of movies during spring festival);
  • Top 10 – 4 (-6; ran out of ideas);
  • TV series – 2 (new category);
  • Books – 1 (-, i still read 3-4 books per year, but not always post about them 🙂 );
  • General – 1 (-2, i guess i’m getting more focused);
  • Artwork – 0 (-2, drawing less, posting them even less often);
  • Live Session – 0 (-2, having less big gaming events);
  • Yes-No – 0 (-5, ran out of ideas and interest to do such posts, for now).
• Received 12 comments (not counting my replies this time 🙂 +10, mainly because someone mentioned one of my posts on some mailing list).

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