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2013 Year in review & Goals for 2014

My blogging fell apart in 2013. I was doing well and reached a goal of 10,000 visitors in a month. Then it fell apart. I spent a lot of time trying to learn Cisco products, and I felt that I did to have anything interesting to add to the internets – it was stuff that all Cisco people already know.

And, I got lazy.

Goals for 2014:
My goals for this year are about the same: 8 posts per month (two per week). I also want to get my Microsoft Certification updated to the new MCSE track.

Anyway, here are my visits for the year:

December      4034
November      4424
October       4964
September     4600
August        5106
July          5502
June          5934
May           7409
April         10913
March         11440
February      10312
January       11256

And my Summary:
2013

And my downwards traffic trend:
Screen Shot 2014-01-14 at 10.29.22 AM

I finally did it! 10K+ visits in a month!

Not bad seeing as I was at 2K last year this time!

		 Visits
Today		 373
Yesterday	 504
This month	 10183
December	 9085
November	 9827
October		 9427
September	 9010
August		 9440
July		 9151
June		 8171
May 		 7352
April		 5027
March		 3966
February	 3160
January		 2741

jbmurphy.com stats from last year

I missed my blogging goal of 2-per-week/104 for the year. I ended up 98 posts. Same goal for this year.
I also missed 10,000 in a month. I was on track at the beginning of December, but then I had a big drop during the holidays.

My monthly break down:

December	 9085
November	 9827
October		 9427
September	 9010
August		 9440
July		 9151
June		 8171
May 		 7352
April		 5027
March		 3966
February	 3160
January		 2741

Here is my year end traffic graph from Google Analytics:

2012-GoogleAnalytics-overview

And here is the breakdown for the traffic:

2012-GoogleAnalytics-breakdown

My 2013 goals are 2 posts per week/104 per year, as I said above. And 15,000 visitors a month. 15k may be out of my reach, but I would love it!

jbmurphy.com’s first year in blogging


I had a goal last year, a goal of blogging 2 times a week for the entire year. I ended up with 116 posts. A couple of those posts were a few dates late, so I did not meet my exact goal of 2 times week, but I always managed 4 posts in every two weeks. My year end results are 16,368 visits and 14,067 unique visitors. Fun stuff.  I know is it no much, but I see a upward trent in the graph below! Wonder where I will be next year?

I hope my tech ramblings are useful to the 14,067 people that visited my site.