🎉 Hooray! This blog is one year old! 🎉

Let's dive in some Google Analytics and Google Search Console metrics to see how many visitors I had and which post is the most successful.

Google Analytics

Audience Overview

Top 10 countries

Acquisition Overview

You can see that 82% of my visitors come through Organic Search or in other words; through a search engine.

Direct

14% of my visitors visit my blog with a direct link in other words, they fill in an url of this blog in their address bar of their browser.

Social

2% comes through social media channels;

  • 42% through Twitter
  • 40% through Facebook
  • 17% through LinkedIn
  • 2% 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 with the most visits (70% page views) followed by:

  1. Lowercase urls in ASP.NET Core
  2. Entity Framework Core Spotify data seed generator
  3. How to exclude own visits (online and development) from Google Analytics

Google Search Console

Performance Overview

3884 visitors came through a search query on Google and my pages has been showed 97957 times in the Google search results. So I've got a 4% CTR (Click Through Rate).

Top 10 search queries from visitors

As you can see, most people came through a Digital Ocean and .Net Core search query.

Top 10 pages through search query

  1. How to deploy ASP.NET Core 3.1 app to Digital Ocean Linux droplet
  2. Lowercase URLs in ASP.NET Core
  3. How to exclude own visits (online and development) from Google Analytics
  4. Entity Framework Core Spotify data seed generator
  5. About me

Devices

Busiest day

Don't forget

To disable the Google script tag if you test your website in development. See this blogpost to see how you can do this in C#.