{"id":1576,"date":"2012-01-01T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2012-01-02T23:49:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T22:49:42","slug":"the-year-in-rampaging-sonically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/the-year-in-rampaging-sonically\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: The Year in Rampaging Sonically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/photos\/terribleday.jpg\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\"><i>The weather is terrible in London &#8230; so why not some stats?<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to 2012!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a pretty cool year for me &#8211; I became a dad, I got a new job, I moved back to London, and I even had the time to do a few new mixes along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I thought it would be nice to put together a post looking back at the last year here on the Sonicrampage blog, because, well, I like numbers and statistics. If you don&#8217;t, feel free to skip this post. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was quite a good year for the blog, especially considering that it wasn&#8217;t updated super-regularly, with almost 54,000 page views over the course of the year, an average of over 4,000 a month, which was very nice. Thanks to everyone who visited, and a special thanks to all the regular reader\/listeners!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/photos\/sonicrampagestats2011.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>First up, here&#8217;s how those 54,000 page views break down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My mixes &#8211; 46%<\/li>\n<li>The home page &#8211; 18%<\/li>\n<li>The mix galleries &#8211; 17%<\/li>\n<li>Guest mixes &#8211; 12%<\/li>\n<li>Other stuff &#8211; 7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/photos\/sonicrampagestats2011bygenre.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Going deeper into the numbers to break down page views of my mixes by genre, I found what you see above, which is that, by page views, hard trance was easily the most popular genre on Sonicrampage this year, followed by drum n&#8217; bass, hard house, and acid. It&#8217;s always good when you have hard facts to back up your instincts &#8211; I&#8217;ve always had the feeling that what people are really interested in from me is hard dance stuff, as opposed to some of the other mixes I put out there, and this confirms it (it&#8217;s also reflected in which galleries were most popular, the order there was acid, hard trance, hard house, and drum n&#8217; bass). In my actual job at ITN I&#8217;ve used this kind of data to change our editorial focus on the ITN News YouTube channel to better reflect what people actually watch. However, Sonicrampage is not a business &#8211; it&#8217;s just my hobby! So no need to necessarily follow such a policy, because whenever I make a mix it&#8217;s primarily for my own enjoyment. Obviously I try to promote the mixes through various social media channels, and I love it when I get good feedback, but the main criteria for every new mix remains whether or not I want to listen to it myself. <\/p>\n<p>Anyways, here&#8217;s to another year of Sonicrampage! Let me know in the comments if there is anything you&#8217;d like to see from me this year, I&#8217;m always open to requests. This coming week I&#8217;ll be posting Rampage Turbo 9, and I will also be hosting some of the Old School Mix Marathon IV mixes from the other dj&#8217;s. First up will be Yoko and Meke&#8217;s mix.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the rest of the year&#8217;s key stats. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Top Ten Mixes by Pageviews:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/pearsall-presents-eurotrash-2\/\">Eurotrash 2<\/a> (3,113 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/pearsall-presents-there-must-be-a-future-new\/\">There Must Be A Future<\/a> (1,452 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/pearsall-presents-urban-takedown-new\/\">Urban Takedown<\/a> (1,231 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/pearsall-presents-beyond-the-valley-of-the-acid-vixens-new\/\">Beyond The Valley Of The Acid Vixens<\/a> (1,003 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/pearsalls-acid-test-new\/\">Pearsall\u2019s Acid Test<\/a> (785 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/pearsall-presents-squat-rocking-1\/\">Squat Rocking 1<\/a> (651 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/pearsall-presents-a-tribute-to-baby-doc-new\/\">A Tribute To Baby Doc<\/a> (636 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/pearsall-presents-heartcore-new\/\">Heartcore<\/a> (618 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/pearsall-presents-rampage-turbo-8\/\">Rampage Turbo 8<\/a> (606 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/pearsall-presents-street-dreams-new\/\">Street Dreams<\/a> (581 views)\n<\/ol>\n<p>Top 5 Guest Mixes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/andy-farleys-trade-memories\/\">Andy Farley\u2019s Trade Memories<\/a> (2,156 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/andy-farleys-trade-memories-2\/\">Andy Farley\u2019s Trade Memories 2<\/a> (1,001 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/guest-mix-tyssen-presents-pendragon-tribute\/\">Tyssen presents Pendragon Tribute<\/a> (717 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/guest-mix-karl-haze-presents-check-your-blindspot\/\">Karl Haze presents Check Your Blindspot<\/a> (386 views)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/guest-mix-tyssen-presents-jon-doe-tribute\/\">Tyssen presents Jon Doe Tribute<\/a> (375 views)\n<\/ol>\n<p>Top 5 Referrers:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangingtunes.com\/forum\/\">Bangingtunes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/\">Discogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.partyvibe.com\/\">Partyvibe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.squatjuice.com\/\">Squatjuice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Biggest Month: February (5,840 views)<br \/>\nBusiest Day: February 26, 2011 (437 views)<br \/>\nSlowest Month: July (3,584 views)<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 Countries for Visitors:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<li>Poland<\/li>\n<li>Australia<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Canada<\/li>\n<li>Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look back at 2011 for the Sonicrampage blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[146,12],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news","tag-other-stuff","tag-waffle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}