Doing a top post’s of a year is what all good, lazy bloggers do at the end of the year. This is actually only the second one I’ve done because I didn’t know until last year that WordPress gave me all these stats. Anyway, overall, this year was a little better than I thought. I had the least post since I started taking the blog a little more seriously back in 2016 (I had over 100 post that year), with only 16. I was happy to see that my views/visitors were actually higher than 2017, but dipped from last year (63 post and almost 50,000 words). I think this is due to finally have some legacy past, some that keep showing up in search engines. For instance, Sapiens led in 2017 and 2018, despite being posted in 2016; it dropped to 11 this year. This has led to an interesting impact, as not a single posts I actually wrote this year made it to my top 10 viewed post this year. So, here it is, my most viewed posts of 2019:

Book Review: We’re Pregnant
Book Review: Disciplines of a Godly Man
1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
Book Review: Imperfect Disciple
Book Review: Darkness is My Only Companion
Book Review: Five Marks of a Man
Book Review: Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
1 Thessalonians 1-2:12
Cheat Sheet to the Minor Prophets
Book Review: Practicing the King’s Economy

Unsurprisingly, seven of the 10 were book reviews. For my review last year, I noted that these are the majority of what I did, and also the most popular, and that I should do more of them. Yet, my goal was to actually do less and focus on more original content, however that didn’t really happen this year. Of the seven book reviews, six were in the top ten last year (Five Marks of a Man being the outside), which I think must have more to do with the popularity of the book than with what I have to say about it. What was surprising, where two of my seven part Thessalonians, series were in the top 10, and my Cheat Sheet (which was my intro) to the Minor Prophets made its way up there, despite being written back in 2016. The Minor Prophets series (which I never finished) and the Thessalonians series are probably the two series/set of writings I’m most proud of, so it was cool to see them pop up. 

Of posts actually written this year, I’m Still Here was number one. I would think the page view would skew heavily towards things written in the January, but interestingly, while 2019 Reading Challenge was number 3 (and my second post written), my 2018 Reading Challenge review (first post written) was the least viewed of the year. Maybe bad timing.

I’ll post one prediction for 2020, I think the Review I did this year for Confronting Old Testament Controversies will be up there. It is a great book, and I hope it takes off. So, that is it for 2019. I appreciate everyone who has read or commented on my posts. Thanks for playing along, I’ll try to do better next year.