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Let's dive into some Google Analytics and Google Search Console metrics to see how many visitors I had and which post was the most successful in 2022.
Google Analytics
Audience Overview
Top 10 countries
Acquisition Overview
As you can see, I don't actively share my blog and posts with on my social media.
Organic Search
You can see that 92.2% of my visitors come through Organic Search or in other words; through a search engine.
Direct
6.7% of my visitors visit my blog with a direct link, in other words, they fill in the URL of this blog in the address bar of their browser.
Referral
1% of my visitors come through a referral link, this can be dev.to, ...
Social
1% comes through social media channels;
50% through Facebook
20% through Twitter
10% through Instagram
10% through LinkedIn
10% through Reddit
Top 10 most visited blog posts
My first blog post How to deploy ASP.NET Core 3.1 app to Digital Ocean Linux droplet is the one the third place (16.2% page views).
Here are the top 4:
Google Search Console
Performance Overview
15247 visitors came through a search query on Google and my pages have been shown 336666 times in the Google search results. So I've got a 4.5% CTR (Click Through Rate).
Top 10 search queries from visitors
As you can see, most people came through an nginx www to a non-www redirect search query.
Top 10 pages through search query
How to deploy ASP.NET Core 3.1 app to Digital Ocean Linux droplet
How to exclude own visits (online and development) from Google Analytics
Devices
Busiest day
Pages with the most external links
Don't forget
To disable the Google script tag if you test your website in development. See this blog post to see how you can do this in C#.