2023 In Review

WordPress put together a year-in-review summary of blog statistics, but the automated report had a couple errors–namely reporting that April 24, 2023 accounted for 817% of all blog visits for the year and that the high number of referrals from Facebook was “a nod to our [WordPress’s] targeted SEO and marketing efforts.”

Despite the error and mis-attribution, the automated report was still useful. But, as a supplement, I put together a summary of 2023 blog statistics, based on how WordPress keeps statistics.

Word Count

For posts published in 2023:

• 65 posts
• 29,908 words
• 467 words per post

Traffic counts below are for 2023 to all blog posts.

Traffic

• 67,753 views
• 19,191 visitors
• 3.53 views per visitor

Top Posts

• OpenSees Tcl to Python Converter – 1309 views
• Gimme All Your Damping, All Your Mass and Stiffness Too – 1199 views
• How to Record Fiber Response – 1043 views
• Be Careful with Modal Damping – 946 views
• Failed to Get Compatible … – 788 views

Top Countries

• United States – 13,895 views
• Italy – 4673 views
• Japan – 4667 views
• Turkey – 3680 views
• India – 3368 views

Top Referrers

From somewhere else to the blog:

• Search engines – 18,592 referrals
  Over 90% of search engine referrals are from Google
• Facebook – 1987 referrals
  Primarily from the OpenSees Facebook group
• opensees.berkeley.edu – 1210 referrals
  Home of the OpenSees message board and the wiki
• aula.upfic.pe – 641 referrals
  An online, post-graduate civil engineering program in Peru
• github.com – 447 referrals
  Primarily from issues and PRs in the OpenSees source code repository

Top Clicks

From the blog to somewhere else:

• github.com – 1067 clicks
  Links to issues and PRs at the OpenSees source code repository
• opensees.berkeley.edu – 539 clicks
  Links to wiki pages
• doi.org – 522 clicks
  Links to journal articles
• openseescloud.com – 478 clicks
  SaaS implementation of OpenSees
• aws.amazon.com – 395 clicks
  OpenSees Amazon machine image