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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.

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:

  1. How to redirect www to non-www with Nginx
  2. How to add cookie consent in ASP.NET Core 5.0
  3. How to deploy ASP.NET Core 3.1 app to Digital Ocean Linux droplet
  4. Lowercase URLs in ASP.NET Core.

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

  1. How to redirect www to non-www with Nginx
  2. How to add cookie consent in ASP.NET Core 5.0
  3. Lowercase URLs in ASP.NET Core
  4. How to deploy ASP.NET Core 3.1 app to Digital Ocean Linux droplet
  5. How to exclude own visits (online and development) from Google Analytics

Devices

Busiest day

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#.