{"id":41503,"date":"2018-01-01T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41503"},"modified":"2017-12-31T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T15:02:40","slug":"blog-traffic-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/01\/blog-traffic-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog traffic in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual statistics update on <em>Quotulatiousness<\/em> from January 1st through December 31st, 2017. The numbers will be a couple of thousand short of the full year, as I did the screen captures mid-morning on the 31st.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-id=\"41520\" href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"163\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-1.png 585w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-1-150x42.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-1-480x134.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-id=\"41521\" href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-2-853x369.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-2-853x369.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-2-150x65.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-2-480x208.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-2-768x332.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-2.png 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-id=\"41522\" href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-3-853x470.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"470\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-3-853x470.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-3-150x83.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-3-480x264.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-3-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Blog-statistics-2017-3.png 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stopped paying much attention to the blog stats years ago, but the jump in traffic from 2016 to 2017 is amazing! Going from a stable ~1.7 million visits per year to nearly 2.5 million last year is quite unexpected. That&#8217;s getting up toward the region where it might seem to make sense to try to monetize the blog &#8230; but I tried doing the Amazon affiliate thing earlier this year, and it generated exactly $0.00 in revenue for Amazon, and I got my full share of that revenue (as Jayne put it: &#8220;Let&#8217;s see, let me do the math: 10 per cent of nothing is, &#8230; (mumble) carry the zero &#8230;(mumble) &#8230; &#8220;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual statistics update on Quotulatiousness from January 1st through December 31st, 2017. The numbers will be a couple of thousand short of the full year, as I did the screen captures mid-morning on the 31st. I stopped paying much attention to the blog stats years ago, but the jump in traffic from 2016 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[204,58,290],"class_list":["post-41503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","category-media","tag-blogging","tag-internet","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aNp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41524,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503\/revisions\/41524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}