2,000,000 Visits and Growing

Another year has come and gone here at Switch On The Code and that means it's time to look back at 2009 and how we did. First I have say it was a great year and we really did a lot of new things here. We started podcasting, doing video tutorials, and much more. A new version of the site was launched built completely in Drupal just about 1 year ago exactly. Now I really hope that this year will bring just as many goodies.

Taking a look at the numbers we really did have a very good year, we ended with 2,034,856 visits and 2,877,551 pageviews, which gave us a measly 76% increase from the year before. You can check a number of the other stats below (compared to last year) but we had increases across the board, with the exception of percentage of new visitors which lowered - this is what we want though.

The most popular posts for 2009 are as follows:

1. Using jQuery Slider to Scroll a Div : 78,827 pageviews
2. Flex Fun - Advanced DataGrid Topics : 65,077
3. C# Tutorial - Image Editing: Saving, Cropping, and Resizing : 60,089
4. WPF Tutorial - Using The ListView, Part 1 : 54,854
5. C# Tutorial - Simple Threaded TCP Server : 48,910

I am happy to say that spot 1 and 2 belong to myself, The Fattest.

When it comes to search traffic, which is our main traffic source, Google sent us just over 1.1 Million visits. This is a 43% increase over the previous year. I hope to see this kind of improvement in the next year, that would be just awesome. The top keywords searched for were:

• wcf tutorial
• wpf listview
• javascript setinterval
• flex tutorial
• c# dictionary

That pretty much takes care of our stats for 2009 - all of these came from our Google Analytics account. This upcoming year should be another great one for not only Switch On The Code but for Paranoid Ferret Productions as a whole. I'm sure some of you noticed that we have been slacking on posts. We have actually been working pretty hard on a new project, an iPhone game. Keep an eye out for it since we really think that it is going to be a good one. I do promise that we won't stop writing tutorials anytime soon.