{"id":73054,"date":"2021-05-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=73054"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:00:00","slug":"stats-still-booming-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/03\/stats-still-booming-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats still booming in April!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As you may have picked up on, I’ve been really interested in the traffic the blog has been getting this year. About this time last month I noted how crazy strong the readership was for March<\/a> – at least by historical comparisons. Well, that pattern didn’t break in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, April traditionally sees a drop off in traffic compared to March, and that did hold this year. Last month saw 29,468 page views as compared to 35,169 the month prior. This April’s 76% improvement over the best prior year, however, did handily beat March’s 59%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total page views are now up over 117,000. That’s 37% higher than at the end of April in any previous year. That’s so strong that even with no traffic in May the blog would still be almost 15% ahead of it’s prior best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m still amazed at all this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case you’re wondering, here are the posts that got the most readership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. How to teach the overhand serve to volleyball beginners<\/a><\/li>
  2. Volleyball Set Diagram<\/a><\/li>
  3. Volleyball games for training and fun<\/a><\/li>
  4. What does out of system mean in volleyball?<\/a><\/li>
  5. Putting together a starting line-up<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    It’ll take about 22k page views in May to hit 1.5 million total since the blog’s inception. Normally, I’d call that a bit of a stretch for May. After all, the previous best was only about 17k from 2020. This year, I wouldn’t bet against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Can’t say why exactly it’s happening, but if anything April’s readership stats for the blog were even stronger than March’s.<\/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-73054","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\/73054","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=73054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73054\/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=73054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}