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Thank you, dear readers, for helping The Wonder of Tech continue to grow over eight years. Yesterday marked the eighth anniversary of this website and it’s because of the support of you wonderful readers that The Wonder of Tech continues to prosper.
Every year on our blogiversary I like to give you a peek behind the curtain to reveal some of the statistics of this site. I find stats fascinating and I hope you do too.
Most Popular Articles at The Wonder of Tech
Readers’ questions are an important source for article topics. Out of the top 10 articles last year, six were based on questions from readers. So thank you for the brilliant questions and keep those questions coming!
Two of the top ten articles last year were about how to organize your Pinterest boards. During the year Pinterest released an update to make organizing your boards easier. So perhaps this article will be one of the top ten this coming year: Pinterest Introduces New Tools to Organize Your Boards and Pins.
How to Turn Your Echo Show or Spot Into a Digital Photo Frame is an up and coming article. This article has been ranking number one for the past few months and continues to gain in popularity.
I continue to be confounded by the most popular article at The Wonder of Tech last year: Bitstrips — Create Your Own Comics Starring You! is about tech that no longer exists, Bitstrips. I updated the article to tell readers that Bitstrips isn’t available any more, referring people to the article about Bitmojis: Bitmojis — Emojis Starring You! The Bitmojis article only ranks at the 23rd most popular article for the year, in spite of the fact that Bitmojis actually exist, while Bitstrips does not.
Here are the most popular articles at The Wonder of Tech for the past year, in order:
- Bitstrips — Create Your Own Comics Starring You!
- Is Your Phone Is Listening to You? Here’s How to Stop It.
- How to Turn Your Echo Show or Spot Into a Digital Photo Frame
- Kindle Collections – How to Organize Your Kindle Books Easily Using Your Computer
- How to Arrange Your Pinterest Boards in 1 Easy Step!
- Pros and Cons of the iPhone X – Is This the Best Phone for You?
- The Easiest Way to Sort Your Pinterest Boards Automatically!
- Why Your Phone Doesn’t Ring (Sometimes) and How to Fix It
- Using Wi-Fi vs. Cellular Data (and Why You Should Care)
- How to Delete Kindle Books from the Cloud vs. Your Device
Referral Sources
Google once again led the list of referrers sending readers to The Wonder of Tech. Google sent eight times as much traffic here as the second largest source of traffic, Pinterest.
June 2018 saw the closure of StumbleUpon, the eighth ranked source of traffic last year. So StumbleUpon reached number 8 even thought it was operational for only half the year. For the entire time The Wonder of Tech has been running, StumbleUpon was the third biggest source of traffic. I truly miss StumbleUpon!
Learn more at => Good-Bye StumbleUpon, Hello Mix
I honestly hadn’t heard of Ecosia until I started looking at my stats for this article. The number 10 source of traffic to The Wonder of Tech is a search engine based in Berlin, Germany that uses a portion of its profits to plant trees.
How cool is that? Perhaps enough readers came to The Wonder of Tech through Ecosia last year to plant a tree.
These are the top ten referrers of readers to The Wonder of Tech, in order:
- Bing
- DuckDuckGo
- Yahoo Search
- WordPress Android App
- StumbleUpon
- Ecosia
Top 10 Countries Visiting The Wonder of Tech
Readers from 225 countries visited The Wonder of Tech last year. The top country was again the United States last year, sending about 64% of all readers to my site. California was the top state at The Wonder of Tech, sending enough readers to rank fourth if it were a country.
Here is the list of the top 10 countries where people read The Wonder of Tech last year:
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- India
- Australia
- Philippines
- South Africa
- Germany
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
Looking Ahead
For the next year at The Wonder of Tech I am looking forward to covering more topics that are interesting to you. Readers’ questions are very popular so I hope to be able to answer more of them here.
Please vote in The Wonder of Tech poll to let me know what articles you’d like to read at The Wonder of Tech. You can vote for as many as you’re like:
Your Thoughts
Were you surprised by any of the stats from The Wonder of Tech? Do you have any tech questions you’d like to see answered at The Wonder of Tech? What would you like to see in the future at The Wonder of Tech?
Share your thoughts in the Comments section below!
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**Thank you note image (edited) courtesy of Pixabay via Pexels and Creative Commons
Its been a great 8 years. So informative! Thanks Carolyn
Hi Carolyn,
Congratulations on 8 years! You truly shine in the Blogosphere with regular posts and staying on top of ever-evolving tech! I imagine you have to update old posts regularly to keep up 😮
All the best, keep on keeping us up to date!
Hugs
Lori
Hi Lori, Thank you for your kind words. Yes, I was very surprised when I found that Bitstrips no longer existed since it’s such a popular article at The Wonder of Tech.
You’re right, tech is constantly evolving and it’s difficult to keep up. That’s exactly why I write The Wonder of Tech, because I enjoy keeping up and get excited about sharing tech news with others.
Thank you also for all of your wonderful support of The Wonder of Tech over the years, Lori!
Hi Rene, Thanks so much for being a loyal friend and Wonder of Tech reader from the very beginning, Rene!
Thanks so much Carolyn for keeping up the good work! You cover so many useful topics and do it in a way that’s easy to understand and implement. I appreciate your kindness and candor that’s always been a staple with this blog.
Hi Carolyn,
Congratulations on 8 years! I am sure you must be feeling amazing about it. You deserve every bit of it. Your posts are just amazing and so informative. I love reading your posts and hope to be back again on your new one.
My best wishes are for you. Have a great day. 🙂
Congratulations on completing 8 years! I stumbled across your blog and I have been blogging myself on and off. It is truly an accomplishment to stay consistent for 8 straight years.
I’ll be following you. Thank you and may you have many more successful years in front of you!
Hi Sayeen, Thank you very much for your good wishes. I hope you are able to enjoy blogging for the next eight years and beyond.
Hi Carolyn!
Happy anniversary, what a milestone! Congrats on keeping us informed and entertaining for all those years, I have been an avid follower from the beginning and many times have hugely benefited from your great advice.
Here’s to many more!
Love, Barbara
Congratulation with 8 years for this blog Carolyn. That is very impressive. Many bloggers lose their motivation after a few years, but The Wonder of Tech is still going strong 🙂
Looking forward to read your future posts in the years to come.