AI's Morose Mania
The more excited we are as developers, the more we have to worry about knowledge workers
So the biggest story for my site’s traffic in 2018 is the Google Algorithm Changes that I wrote about here.
It was a bloodbath, basically.
I am currently at 50% of my traffic as compared to the beginning of 2018. But I’m hoping that’ll re-adjust as Google tries to figure out who has authority on various topics and who doesn’t.
Here’s some browser data—with Chrome still dominating.
And here’s some social media numbers.
Overall I still had way over 2 million pageviews, so it was still a good year. But I can’t help but feel like the year was a bad one due to losing 50% of my traffic starting around July.
I really hope Google re-adjusts and brings me back to my former levels—and hopefully even more given the work I’ve been doing on cleanup.