3 Years in Review (2019 - 2022): A small developer blog by the numbers
Anatomy of a small developer blog from 2019 - 2022
With 2022 coming to a close, I wanted to take some time and reflect on this years’ data. The Modern Coder is the manifestation of an idea I had in 2016. This blog started as both a creative outlet, and way to improve my ability to communicate technical concepts to a wider audience. Since 2016, my career has taken me from software engineering to management, and along the way my outlook on this blog has changed as well.
In 2019 I stopped posting to this blog and I put my full focus into a transition to software engineering management. In November 2022, I’ve resumed blogging; however, the blog has grown in my absence. This blog post is a retrospective on my 3 year hiatus.
Audience
Visitors
New Users: 118,145
Pageviews: 172,257
Avg session duration: 58 seconds
Visitor Locations
- United States: 33.8%
- India: 9.63%
- United Kingdom: 5.33%
- Germany: 4.49%
- Canada: 4.01%
Devices
- Desktop: 93.61%
- Mobile: 5.94%
- Tablet: 0.45%
Mobile Operating Systems
- Android: 69.36%
- iOS: 30.48%
- Windows: 0.07%
Desktop Operating Systems
- Mac: 62.22%
- Windows: 20.12%
- Linux: 9.65%
Desktop Browsers
- Chrome: 74.61%
- Safari: 11.49%
- Firefox: 8.81%
Content
Top blog articles
- Add Git branch information to your ZSH prompt: 90,141
- A better Git workflow with rebase: 26,596
- The Modern Coder: 10,376
- A Simple Introduction to Grep and Sed: 8,265
- Combining Git commits with squash: 6,624
Acquisition
- Organic Search: 71.5%
- Social: 17.2%
- Direct: 10.4%