The site has continued to grow in 2016. Looking back over the prior years it has looked pretty linear the whole time.

I take a hit in December, but I almost managed on average 200 site views per day in November. I topped the 100,000 cumulative site views for the entire blogs existence in November of this year.

Despite moving from Albany to Texas, I still managed to publish 40 new pages this year, which I am pretty happy with. I don’t set myself with any hard expectations, but I like to publish something at least once every two to four weeks.

While some of my initial traffic is bursty, e.g. gets shared on a popular site and you get a couple hundred views in a day, most of my traffic is a slow trickle of referrals from google. Here is a plot of my pages by average views per day, broken down by some of my main categories. Posts colored in red have an SPSS tag, and so the Python and R columns can also be posts on SPSS. (So most of my python posts are calling python from SPSS.)

So even my most popular posts do not average more than a few views per day, and most do not get any appreciable traffic at all. Here are the labels in that dot plot to show what posts they are.

Don’t ask me why some end up being more popular than others (who knew Venn diagrams in R?). I wrote a few more blog posts on using various google maps APIs with python in response to the google places post being popular. The google street view post is doing pretty well, the others not so much though.

My motivation for posts though are more in line with an academic journal/notebook/diary – I post on some project I am working on essentially, I don’t go and research specific topics just for the blog. I am happy with the extra exposure though – and I’m sure there is more value added to a tutorial blog post than there is for a stuffy academic paper that is read by two dozen individuals (even if that is what counts towards my tenure)!