You guys just keep breaking records!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I’ve been documenting (see this<\/a>, this<\/a>, and this<\/a>), it’s been a surprisingly strong year for the site’s readership. That didn’t change at all in May. From 2017 to 2020 the month of May was the lowest traffic month of the year. Not a big surprise given that it’s a slower time of year in the volleyball calendar. Colleges and professional leagues are completed. Juniors season for many teams is over. Coaches quite reasonably take a bit of a break this time of year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Different story for 2021, though. Yes, college and pro teams were done. Many high school seasons moved to later in the year, however. Same with a lot of club tournaments. That made May a bit more intense than usual. That seems to be playing out in blog traffic as last month’s readership was up nearly 60% from 2020. Additionally, May beat out January for only the second time since the site’s inception in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Total page views for 2021 are up about 40% from last year at this point. The site is on track to hit 300,000 for the first time ever this year, which is awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, and last week the blog crossed 1.5 million total page views. I definitely never imagined anything like that when I started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are the posts that got the most readership in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As is pretty typical, none of those is a new post. Not that I wrote that much in May, mind. I had a lot going on, especially in the latter part of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s becoming a regular theme of 2021 that readership to the site breaks monthly records. May was no different.<\/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-73556","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\/73556","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=73556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73556\/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=73556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}