Blog status update (April 2025): The most popular posts for 2025 (so far); also, still not missing Twitter

Time for another blog status update post. This time, it’s a look at site statistics; info is taken from Matomo.

Most popular posts, January to March 2025

Looking back at the first three months of the year, the five most popular posts I’ve written in 2025:

1. Tech companies that still support DEI (and alternatives to ones that don’t)
2. Recommended Google alternatives (2025 edition)
3. Alternatives to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
4. Media companies that still support DEI (and alternatives to ones that don’t)
5. A look at Pixelfed (2025 edition)

As for the five most popular posts for the site overall:

1. Tech review: Samsung Galaxy Tab A9
2. Why do so many Black superheroes have electrical powers?
3. Where can you buy DVDs and Blu-rays?
4. Media server review: Jellyfin
5. Tech companies that still support DEI (and alternatives to ones that don’t)

Normally, the most popular post on either list would be my annual “cartoons that should’ve entered public domain” posts. However, I think recent events have caused a shift in what’s popular. Between Trump’s attacks on DEI initiatives, tariff nonsense, and general acts of greed, bigotry, and abuse of power, I don’t blame people for focusing on that over, say, cartoon and comic characters from 1968.

Sources of blog traffic, January to March 2025

Sources of blog traffic from January to March 2025 by percentage:

1. Search engines (i.e. basically Google): 66.3%
2. Direct entry: 31.2%
3. Social networks: 1.1%
4. Campaigns: 0.8%
5. Websites: 0.6%

Breaking down social network traffic by percentage:

1. Facebook: 0.5%
2. Bluesky: 0.3%
3. Mastodon: 0.2%
4. Reddit: 0.1%
5. Pinterest, Twitter, Pixelfed: below 0.1%

Unsurprisingly, most of my traffic comes from Google, rather than anything I specifically do. Social media definitely doesn’t move the needle much for me, though it might also reflect that I’m anything but an influencer.

That said, other than Facebook, most of my social media traffic is from Bluesky and Mastodon, the two main networks I use these days. Reddit gets a few hits, as do Pinterest and even Pixelfed. Twitter traffic meanwhile is pretty much nonexistent—a big shift from it being my favorite social network (and a big source of blog traffic) in the pre-Musk days. Given its current state, I don’t miss or need Twitter, and glad I permanently shuttered my account.

Photo from Wokandapix (Pixabay)