{"id":72009,"date":"2021-02-26T10:32:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=72009"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:32:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:32:48","slug":"an-interesting-start-to-the-year-for-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/an-interesting-start-to-the-year-for-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting start to the year for the blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been tracking something interesting in the stats of this blog. January’s readership was the highest it’s ever been since I started the site in 2013. It was only by about 4% over the 2020 value, though, so I didn’t think a great deal about it. Aside from 2019 when some hacking related issues saw page views take a dip, every year has seen more page views than the one before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I’m looking at February’s figures. With a couple days left, 2021 has already exceeded 2020 by nearly 12% as I write this. And that’s considering there was an extra day in the calendar last year. On a daily average basis, page views are up nearly 28% year-over-year. That will likely dip a bit over the weekend as Saturday and Sunday generally see the fewest page views each week. Still, it’s an impressive jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t help but wonder how much of this is a function of teams normally playing in the Fall now playing in the Winter\/Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe it’s simply a function of more exposure for the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the most viewed pages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Home page<\/a> (3.04% of all views)<\/li>
  2. Volleyball Set Diagram<\/a> (2.74%)<\/li>
  3. How to teach the overhand serve to volleyball beginners<\/a> (2.57%)<\/li>
  4. Whose ball? Seam Responsibilities<\/a> (1.40%)<\/li>
  5. Scoring serving and passing effectiveness<\/a> (1.40%)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Over 100 pages on the site have more than 100 views in these first two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Naturally, the vast majority of readers come from the USA (71%). No other country even reaches 5%. Nearly 70% of visitors get here via search, with 22% doing so from social media. Among the few folks clicking here from other volleyball websites, the leading sources are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Mark Lebedew’s website<\/a><\/li>
    2. volleyballtoolbox.net<\/a><\/li>
    3. VolleyTalk<\/a><\/li>
    4. Volleyball Nova Scotia<\/a><\/li>
    5. Volley Junkies<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      February isn’t even over yet and it’s already seen more readership of this blog than in any prior year. January did as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-72009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-r","category-volleyball-coaching-news","tag-volleyball-coaching-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}