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The Year in Numbers 2013

December 31, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

numbersAll in all it was a successful year here at John Sansom dot Com. In terms of traffic, the blog had almost 400 thousand page views. I know. I don’t understand why either – but I’ll take it! This years page views were more than half of all the total page views in the 5 year life of the blog. A repeat performance next year and we’ll be on track to hit the magic 1 million milestone!

The blog experienced a face lift this year, with a new site design running on the Genesis Framework resulting in a much richer and improved visitor experience.

We also took the plunge to dark side by supporting advertising on the site. I had put off doing this for a long time, viewing adverting as an evil nuisance of the internet.

Producing and sharing quality content is my core focus and so I made sure to place advertising that did not detract from this. Content is and always will be, front and center. Interestingly I’ve not had a single complaint since introducing advertising and so I think I’m getting the balance right. I wanted to take visitor experience to the next level and to do that I was going to need to invest financially in infrastructure and services. Supporting advertising here on the site paved the way.

Using the revenue I have been able to fund a number of initiatives, all with the goal of improving visitor experience:

  • Migrated to a new hosting provider WestHost – Improving site performance, availability and offering excellent support service.
  • Moved to a professional and reliable email delivery platform by using Aweber.
  • Deployed a CDN (Content Delivery Networking) solution offered by MaxCDN – Improving site speed globally by using local Edge locations.

This is in danger of turning into a web-design/technical post, which is not what we’re about here so I’ll stop now :-)

Anyway, thank you all for occasionally stopping by and taking a few minutes to read what I post here. I really do appreciate it. Thank you and have a great year in 2014!

The Year 2013 in Numbers

  • 1 – Microsoft Certified Master Award
  • 1 – “Blog of the Year” Nomination <- Still time to vote for me to win. Pretty please.
  • 1 – Free SQL Community Ebook Published
  • 43 – Something For The Weekend(SFTW) Posts
  • 66 – Blog Posts
  • 2,055 – Downloads of the free ebook DBA JumpStart
  • 2,394 – Twitter Followers
  • 5,306 – Email Subscribers
  • 3,646 – Highest Daily Pageviews (All Time = 4,005)
  • 400,692  – Total Pageviews (All Time 769,067 )

Most Popular Blog Content of 2013

  1. How to Become a SQL Server DBA
  2. My Guide to Passing MCTS Exam 70-432
  3. Top 10 Junior DBA Interview Tips
  4. Top 10 Free SQL Server Tools
  5. SQL Server Essentials – Part 1: The Database Administrator’s Primary Responsibility
  6. Your Road To Becoming a DBA
  7. SQL Server Books
  8. Performing fast SQL Server delete operations
  9. 10 Character Traits of Outstanding DBAs
  10. Top 5 SQL Server Forums

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About John Sansom

I’m a Microsoft Certified Master(MCM) of SQL Server. I’ve been working with database technology in a variety of flavors for over fifteen years. I absolutely love what I do and genuinely feel privileged to be a part of our tremendous technology community. Got a question about SQL Server or being a DBA? Ask me!

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