2023 In Review

Original Post - 31 Dec 2023 - Michael H. Scott

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WordPress put together a year-in-review summary of blog statistics, but the automated report had a couple errors–namely reporting that April 24, 2023 accounted for 817% of all blog visits for the year and that the high number of referrals from Facebook was “a nod to our [WordPress’s] targeted SEO and marketing efforts.”

Despite the error and mis-attribution, the automated report was still useful. But, as a supplement, I put together a summary of 2023 blog statistics, based on how WordPress keeps statistics.

Word Count

For posts published in 2023:

65 posts
29,908 words
467 words per post

Traffic counts below are for 2023 to all blog posts.

Traffic

67,753 views
19,191 visitors
3.53 views per visitor

Top Countries

United States - 13,895 views
Italy - 4673 views
Japan - 4667 views
Turkey - 3680 views
India - 3368 views

Top Referrers

From somewhere else to the blog:

Search engines - 18,592 referrals
Over 90% of search engine referrals are from Google
Facebook - 1987 referrals
Primarily from the OpenSees Facebook group
opensees.berkeley.edu - 1210 referrals
Home of the OpenSees message board and the wiki
aula.upfic.pe - 641 referrals
An online, post-graduate civil engineering program in Peru
github.com - 447 referrals
Primarily from issues and PRs in the OpenSees source code repository

Top Clicks

From the blog to somewhere else:

github.com - 1067 clicks
Links to issues and PRs at the OpenSees source code repository
opensees.berkeley.edu - 539 clicks
Links to wiki pages
doi.org - 522 clicks
Links to journal articles
openseescloud.com - 478 clicks
SaaS implementation of OpenSees
aws.amazon.com - 395 clicks
OpenSees Amazon machine image

OpenSees Cloud

OpenSees AMI