Most Popular articles of 2016#genealogy #blog #statsI know this stuff interests some of my readers, so I threw together some approximate numbers for some of the most popular articles this year.
The site received roughly 2,3 million hits this year, fairly evenly distributed over the year, with about 190.000 hits hits per month, despite periods in which I wrote little or nothing.
I took those numbers from DirectAdmin, a popular site admin tool. DirectAdmin shows numbers for the 30 most popular items of each month.
That leaves out articles just below the top 30. Tallying those does not provide exact results anyway, so I did not bother to rigorously add them for an ostensibly exact count, but did a quick mental additions instead.
As usual, the GeneAwards were popular, especially during January, shortly after publication:
GeneAwards 2015 (12.500+)
http://tamurajones.net/GeneAwards2015.xhtmlUnsurprisingly, articles about Family Tree Maker proved very popular this year.
There was renewed interest in the 2013 article
Six Things to know about Family Tree Maker 2014 (10.000+)
http://tamurajones.net/SixThingsToKnowAboutFamilyTreeMaker2014.xhtmlThe review of Softwarer MacKiev's first FTM release remained popular throughout the year:
Software MacKiev Family Tree Maker 2014 (19.000+)
http://tamurajones.net/SoftwareMacKievFamilyTreeMaker2014.xhtmlThe exclusive interview with Software MacKiev president Jack Minsky remained fairly popular too;
New Family Tree Maker Future (10.000+)
http://tamurajones.net/NewFamilyTreeMakerFuture.xhtmlSo far the practically predictable stuff.
Two articles proved considerably more popular than I would have guessed.
The 2011 article
Dutch Militia Registers (5000+)
http://tamurajones.net/DutchMilitiaRegisters.xhtmlThe 2016 article
How to enter a Same-Sex Marriage in PAF (8000+)
http://tamurajones.net/HowToEnterASameSexMarriageInPAF.xhtml
