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January 2022 Site Status

Although there are still some hours to go before the month is “officially” over, I can reach a couple of conclusions from my site’s stats, that are unlikely to be overturned:

  • Traffic is rising, following the low of December — each of the full weeks of January were higher than the week before.
  • January’s total, while higher than December’s, is still less than November’s and is a full 40% lower than January 2021.

It will take a lot more growth to get back to the old traffic levels, but it just seems people are online less right now, as others seem to be observing.

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December 2021 Blog Status

It’s weird. December 2021’s blog hits were the lowest since June and the second lowest of the whole year, Yet, December was my best sales month ever, since I started self-publishing five years ago (Happy Anniversary to me!). Not sure how it is that the increase in sales didn’t come from an increase in blog activity first, but I’ll gladly take it.

As I expected, my 2021 total came out lower than Bluehost’s stats for 2020, despite that not representing a full year. Let’s hope 2022 reverses that trend.