Hello and Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had a good year-end break before we all get back on the treadmill of work, home, and family routines.
I started tracking blog stats again last year, when I began noticing an uptick in visits, and I thought it would be fun to do this look back again this year. This year, I managed to stay consistent with my posting and statistics.
Last year, I reported around 40k in visits, and I have similar numbers for this year as well.
The top countries visiting my blog have remained consistently the US, UK, and India over the years.
My top posts also remain consistently the same as compared to last year. I have long realized that my posts take ages to get some momentum, but once they do, they steadfastly retain their popularity for years. Additionally, it’s primarily a few posts that drive the majority of traffic to my blog.
Here are my top-visited pages/posts. None of them is a surprise. All these posts have generated the bulk of the traffic that comes to my blog, followed by some recent book reviews. As usual, my travel posts (which are my personal favorite posts) did poorly. I guess I’m just not a good travel blogger.
Jetpack doesn’t report this, but of late, I am seeing a significant amount of traffic coming from LLMs, but I’m having trouble identifying the geographical locations of LLM usage. It’s interesting because I didn’t actually expect LLMs to drive visits, and really, I don’t even know what questions are being asked that my blog is answering. Curioser and curioser, as Alice would say.
Overall, I am quite happy with my blog stats. I would have liked to see a better uptick since last year, but with readership shifting to Substack and people preferring YouTube and Instagram content, I shouldn’t expect improved numbers on my blog without doing something radically different, for which I lack the time, energy, and expertise.
So, there it goes, another year in blog land – still doing well overall, if not growing. Hoping for a similar 2026 as well. How about you? What are your hopes and plans for your blogs?
