Well here is my stereotypical year in review blog post. You can also view last year's post. Overall, my site had a great year. Traffic was up almost 200% compared to last year. Almost all of this is due to the articles that I wrote. I also found Twitter to be a great help in increasing traffic. Here were a couple tweets by some high profile twitter users regarding my site this year:
- Smashing Magazine - 106,556 Followers
- Nicholas Patten (NY Designer) - 37,470 Followers
- Elijah Manor (Co-host of The Official jQuery Podcast) - 31,569 Followers
- Alex Puig (Twittexperts.com) - 30,378 Followers
- jQuery (Official Twitter Account) - 16,436 Followers
- Chris Coyier (CSS-Tricks.com) - 14,346 Followers
I was also featured on cssglobe.com and 456bereastreet.com.
2009 Statistics for NealGrosskopf.com
- Total Visits: 95,830 (32,580) +194.14%
- Total Pageviews: 165,086 (61,301) +169.30%
- Most Popular Page: CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer 24,834 (Same, 16,690 pageviews)
- Most Visits in a Single Day: May 12th with 1,831 (October 10th with 1,371 visits)
Top Search Phrases:
Compared to last year, most of my top searches on my site were related to articles I wrote. This is due to my SEOing of the articles.
- firefox css hack: 661
- opera css hack: 556
- jquery content slider: 387
- css hack for firefox: 313
Visits By Region
My site improved the most internationally while in Wisconsin I had sort of a poor year. I consider most Wisconsin visitors to be people that know me personally.
Wisconsin
3,633 (3,890) -6.42%
US
32,866 (13,733) +139.32%
International
62,964 (18,847) +234.08%
Target Sites
This includes sites such as Digg, Delicious, Twitter etc. These are sites that I market my articles to. As you can see, I improved my targets sites immensely in the last year:
15,856 (2,734) +479.96%
Wrapping It Up
Due to my work situation for the last couple months of 2009, I ran out of ideas to write articles on. Because of this I sort of ran out of momentum towards the end of the year. My goal throughout the year was to break 100,000 visits and I came up 5,000 short. For 2010, I'll set that same goal and hopefully break it this time around.