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My Writing & Other Statistics – 2021

Welcome to my yearly post to summarize my writing stats (as of December 29th, 2021), set out a goal for next year, and other things. In this post are:


Published word count for stories

First up is an updated chart for sites that I published on other than my blog itself:

YearWords posted to sites
200818,072
20106,131
20113,506
201215,691
20134,520
201458,755
201533,338
201634,688
201729,851
201835,104
201979,872
20206,802
202142,518

My goal this year was 50k words published, but I didn’t quite make it… I could have powered through another story at the end of the year, but I didn’t want to publish something just for publishings sake.


Published word count for blog posts

Getting my stats from my blog is a bit harder, and includes some things like news items, but excludes things like FWBP, so probably a wash over all.  This years count is my best on record!

YearWords posted to blog
201454,000
201591,250
2016109,500
2017127,750
2018146,000
2019104,811
2020127,938
2021214,352

I almost doubled my yearly output of blog posts, mostly due to the fact that I had a post for every single day of the year. That’s unlikely to happen next year, though I do have most of 2022 covered for 2 or 3 posts each week so far.


Total word count

That means my total writing output looks like this:

YearWords posted to sitesWords posted to blogTotal
200818,072n/a18,072
20106,131n/a6,131
20113,506n/a3,506
201215,691n/a15,691
20134,520n/a4,520
201458,75554,000112,755
201533,33891,250124,588
201634,688109,500144,188
201729,851127,750157,601
201835,104146,000181,104
201979,872104,811184,683
20206,802127,938134,740
202142,518214,352256,870
Total368,848975,6011,344,449

Blog statistics

My blog traffic has been increasing over time, if my stats plugin is to be believed this is what the year has looked liked since I moved to my self hosted blog in February (as of December 29th, so the last two days of stats are missing):

Dark Blue = Unique Visitors
Light Blue = Page Views
YearTotal Visitors
(in thousands)
Total Page Views
(in thousands)
202178.8480.0
Total78.8480.0

Not sure what happened in July that caused the spike, but overall the trend is upwards, though leveling off at the end of the year.

If October/November are representative for next year that should put me at ~120k visitors and ~660k page views.


Non-blog statistics (bdsmlr, literotica, etc.)

None of the other sites I post on can come even close to where I was on Tumblr (over 5k followers), but each has had steady progress over the year:

Yearbdsmlr.comliterotica.comdeviantart.com
2021 (July)233254286
2021386 (+65%)274 (+8%)384 (+34%)

With bdsmlr.com being so flaky, I might look to add another Tumblr like site to the mix, but I’ll see how things go in the first few months of the year.


Top 10 posts on the blog

The following is the top 10 posts on the blog, excluding things like news, the search page, the tags page, the archive pages, etc.

RankTitle/Post DateViews
1Thursday September 09, 20211,633
2Thursday July 22, 20211,572
3Friday July 02, 20211,428
4Thursday October 14, 20211,263
5Tuesday April 06, 20211,157
6Saturday July 03, 20211,149
7Friday July 16, 20211,120
8Tuesday February 09, 20211,067
9Tuesday April 13, 20211,027
10Thursday February 25, 2021952

I never know what posts are going to be popular in a year, but this year the theme seems to be #Asian 🙂


Top 10 pages on the blog

RankPageViews
1Tags6,374
2Stories4,058
3Bimbo or Billionaire Universe3,336
4OTTII Universe2,404
52021 Archive2,221
62017 Archive1,573
7Writing Status1,477
8Search1,433
92020 Archive1,028
10Links862

Page rankings very seldom change, with the obvious ones near the top, though the 2017 Archive page at #6 is kind of surprising… I guess 2017 was a good year 😉


Summary and Next years goals

Woohoo! Over a 1.3 million words written so far 🙂 Those daily blog entries really add up!

As I was very close to my goal this year, I’m going to leave it the same as last year, 50k words.

As always, thanks for reading and your feedback, here’s hoping that 2022 finally gets us over the pandemic!

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