So, I’ve been looking at my blog posts for 2015 and find a few interesting things. Often, I write one blog post a day. Some days, I write more than one, and sometimes I go without putting up a blog post. There have been long periods where I’ve put up a blog post every day. For 2015, I ended up putting up 364 blog post, one post short of an average of one post a day.

For 2015, my average blog post was just shy of 300 words. My total for the year was slightly over 100,000 words, or the equivalent of two NaNoWriMo first drafts.

Each blog post was directly accessed an average of 473 times, based on the blog software data. There are times this varies from Google analytics data, and this data doesn’t really say how often a blog post was read, because often people come to the front page of the blog or to one of the category pages. In such cases, they can usually read up to five posts on a single page, but I don’t know how may they really read. It’s probably fair to say that for 2015, my average blog post was read around 500 times.

My most popular blog post for 2015 was My Cartoon Superheros. It tied to an effort to fill Facebook with comic book heroes for one reason or another.

The next three most popular posts were related to #rhizo15. While I don’t have nice statistics to support this, I believe these were also the posts that received the most comments.

Not included in these statistics is that many of my most popular posts were written in previous years.

So, the plan for 2016 remains similar to my plan for 2015. Try to average a post a day, with an average post of 300 words and each post read an average of 500 times. I expect more of my posts will be about poetry and religion and less on politics and technology which have often driven much of my traffic. My hopes are that in spite of this shift I’ll have more readers and more engagement for 2016. I especially hope that my posts will have more impact, along the lines I described in Shaping Ava.

What are your blog and social media plans for 2016?