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Hey everyone! Another year has passed and it's now 5 years since I've been blogging here on catonmat! In this post I wish to summarize this year's statistics.
See the one year of blogging, two years of blogging, three years of blogging, and four years of blogging for the previous year statistics.
Let's start this year's stats with traffic:

Traffic statistics from Google Analytics for Jul 1, 2011 - Jul 1, 2012.
This year: 988,295 uniques. 1,374,228 visits. 1,940,530 page views.
Last year: unknown uniques. 1,014,765 visits. 1,453,557 page views.
Delta: +350,000 visits, +490,000 page views.
Here is Feedburner statistics. I used my Feedburner graph generator to produce it.

Feedburner statistics Jul 1, 2011 - Jul 1, 2012.
At 14,362 rss subscribers this year. Last year 13,500. Delta +862. subscribe.
Github stats: At 1070 followers this year. Last year 686. Delta +385. follow me.
Twitter stats: At 3093 followers this year. Last year 1998. Delta +1095. follow me.
Total articles written: 41. Top 15 articles by views:
- Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys (186053 views)
- We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling! (77807 views)
- World's best introduction to sed (44545 views)
- Announcing my second e-book "Sed One-Liners Explained" (39684 views)
- A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers (39557 views)
- A proof that Unix utility "sed" is Turing complete (30311 views)
- Announcing my third e-book "Perl One-Liners Explained" (29957 views)
- Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VII: Handy Regular Expressions (26151 views)
- How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for my Browserling startup (25200 views)
- Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing (24662 views)
- Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition 2011 (24617 views)
- Node.js modules you should know about: dnode (23705 views)
- Node.js modules you should know about: request (23015 views)
- Announcing perl1line.txt - Collection of Handy Perl Scripts (22756 views)
- How to setup Stripe payments with node.js (22215 views)
My top 5 favorite articles:
- The curious case of the DES algorithm (16430 views)
- World's best introduction to sed (44545 views)
- Announcing perl1line.txt - Collection of Handy Perl Scripts (22756 views)
- A quine in node.js (5028 views)
- A proof that Unix utility "sed" is Turing complete (30311 views)
During this year I made 10 announcements:
- Announcing dedicated servers for Browserling (14517 views)
- Announcing Headless Testling (14370 views)
- Announcing my second e-book "Sed One-Liners Explained" (39684 views)
- Announcing my third e-book "Perl One-Liners Explained" (29957 views)
- Announcing perl1line.txt - Collection of Handy Perl Scripts (22756 views)
- Announcing real IEs for Browserling (13108 views)
- Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing (24662 views)
- Announcing Tunnels for Browserling (14844 views)
- Browserling has a new design! (7410 views)
- Browserling reaches 100 paying customers! (9938 views)
And I wrote 3 e-books:
That's all folks! Now let's have some 5 year birthday cake,

And let's meet for the cake next year again! See you!


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Congratulations. Wish I could say I've been following you for the past five years (more like the past one), but at least I can hope I'll still be able to follow for the next five.
Thanks man!
I never read blogs on a regular basis. But when i read a post on awk last year, Instant fan!!I think if you keep writing like this, we will have another andrew s tanenbaum from netherlands
Thank you!
Congratulations! You inspire many. Keep Writing.. always...
Thank you!
Peteris, its always pleasure to read your posts. Like every year I do, congrats on this 5th yr of catonmat and I am sure this tech world will learn a lot from you through catonmat. Your contribution is amazing. All my good wishes. //Jadu, India
Thank you!
Thanks for everything I learned from you =)
You're welcome!
thanks Peteris for your gr8 blog. keep the good work.
good luck for many years to come.
Thanks!
Many many congratulation buddy u have really made a difference in field of learning unix for beginners ......
Thank you!
Congrats on the success!
Thanks man!!
Congrats and Thank you
Thank u sir ! Be it awk, sed, perl or bit hacks , its your blog that I always check out first ! Please carry on. Cant wait to celebrate your 50 years of blogging !
I intended to compose you alone a bit of note in order to give many thanks again about the amazing advice you’ve contributed above.I have shared your personal experiences that's highly recommended.
This is one the best blogs i have come across.
I might be digging a old article. But can you provide stats like browser vice visitor breakdown , OS vice and region vice.
Thanks for the request. I'll do it for 6 years of blogging stats. (That is in July this year.)
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