Monday, December 31, 2018

Top 40 Most Viewed Posts in 2018 on Genea-Musings

A)  Here are the Top 40 viewed Genea-Musings blog posts from 2018 that had the most page views in 2018 (from View Count statistics on the Google Blogger Posts page as of 31 December 2018). 


No.
Blog Post Title
Date
Views
1
05/11/18
8884
2
04/25/18
7188
3
03/31/18
3464
4
04/12/18
2800
5
06/25/18
2385
6
10/02/18
2165
7
06/19/18
2112
8
07/18/18
2018
9
01/24/18
2001
10
01/30/18
1981
11
01/17/18
1880
12
04/10/18
1472
13
02/25/18
1447
14
02/28/18
1363
15
04/28/18
1330
16
01/01/18
1320
17
07/25/18
1274
18
08/08/18
1264
19
05/01/18
1261
20

Seavers in the News -- Charles Seaver Dies in 1939 in Santa Maria, California

10/12/18
1180
21
08/02/18
1176
22
02/17/18
1118
23
02/28/18
1087
24
05/05/18
1038
25
08/03/18
1013
26

52 Ancestors - Week 247: #372 Thomas Hazard (1707-after 1748) of North Kingstown, Rhode Island

10/12/18
966
27
09/26/18
951
28
02/12/18
928
29
08/17/18
916
30
07/08/18
896
31
05/12/18
870
32
05/07/18
865
33
02/18/18
863
34
02/18/18
851
35
02/13/18
844
36
09/28/18
834
37
08/15/18
823
38
04/09/18
821
39
02/13/18
813
40
05/21/18
808

B)  The ten most popular Genea-Musings posts since 2007 are:

1)  Microfilm Scanning at the FHL and FHC (posted 22 July 2009) - 76,910 views.

2)  1940 Census Enumeration District Maps Online at NARA Website (posted 18 July 2011) - 63,116 views.

3)  Genealogy Presentations on Slideshare.net (posted 28 January 2010) - 25,937 views.

4)  Merry Christmas to All! (posted 25 December 2011) - 14,852 views.

5)  World records for number of children (posted 21 July 2006) - 11,499 views.


6)  Randy's NGS 2010 Photos - Post 1 (posted 4 May 2010) - 9,345 views

7)  RootsTech 2017 Blog Compendium -- UPDATED (posted 1 March 2017) - 8212 views


8)  Ancestry.com Says They Will Work on Technical Problems (posted 11 May 2018) - 8884 views

9)  Are There Search Problems on Ancestry.com? - UPDATED (posted 25 April 2018) - 7188 views.

10)  Book Review: "The Spyglass File," by Nathan Dylan Goodwin (posted  29 September 2016) -- 6,407 views
C)  Of course, all of my blog posts are viewed by many more readers than those that go to the web page for the post - those who read them on an Genea-Musings archive page, those that read them in an RSS reader, or on a mobile device, and those that receive them via email.

Another measure of popularity or readership might be in the number of comments generated by each post.  I don't think that is a reliable measure of popularity because of the proliferation of RSS reader usage, email usage, and mobile device usage, each of which require one or more click throughs to get to the comment box.

It certainly seems like readers search for Ancestry.com, source citations, conferences, DNA, and genealogy software topics, and find my blog posts.  Posts for the Amanuensis Monday and 52 Ancestors series have increased in viewership over last year.

D)  Previous "most popular" posts on Genea-Musings are:


E)  Readership of Genea-Musings has dropped over the past year - perhaps persons have given up on reading my blog (and other blogs) on a web browser and have moved to a reader or email, or perhaps Genea-Musings has become old-hat and readers are bored by it.  for example, the 40th most viewed post last year had 968 views.  This year, the 40th most viewed post had 808 views.  

F)  I wondered what the least popular Genea-Musings post was in 2018.  I know that Surname Saturday, Treasure Chest Thursday, Wordless Wednesday, and Seavers in the News posts are not that popular.  The least viewed blog post in 2018 was Ping Pong Buddies in 1956 -- Post 542 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday, posted 28 November 2018, with 49 views.

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2 comments:

Bill said...

Randy-

I appreciated your year in review and popular posts today.

I read your posts every day via email subscription - some in depth, some scanned, some skipped. I rarely go to the Blogger page unless I want to comment. Do you have a way to include this type of reading in your counts?

Thanks for all you do for the genealogical community!

Bill Greggs
bgreggs@gmail.com

cathyd said...

Ditto for me, Randy. I heard about your blog via Roberta Estes' blog -- and her blog, too, I read via email. Usually when I click through (to any blog -- and I only read about 6 of them, via email subscription) it's via my phone to the browser. Not sure how/if that gets counted.

Thank you for all your work on this blog!