As we begin the New Year, we’re using this week to look back at our most popular blogs of the last twelve months. The question is, how many of them have you read?
2019 was another successful one for our website, with our web traffic growing again. This year the views of our website increased by 25%, and the number of visitors increased by 21%. We were on course for a quarter of million views until the Google algorithm change in November seemed to co-inside with a bit of a loss of traffic – something we need to sort out in 2020!
Our most viewed blog of the year was:
- How many satellites orbiting the Earth in 2019? – this accounts for almost 40% of our website views and has led to some really interesting backlinks!
Only one other blog written this year made the top ten most viewed, this was:
- What does 2019 hold for Earth Observation satellites? – this was the 9th most popular
The remaining top ten most viewed blogs were all written in previous years, some of which were written four, five or even six years ago! You might notice a slight pattern about the satellites orbiting the Earth though! These blogs are consistently in our most-read lists, and so hopefully this means they are helpful to people which is great. In order, the remaining most viewed blogs of the last year are:
- How many satellites are orbiting the Earth in 2018?
- How many satellites are orbiting the Earth in 2017?
- Differences between optical and radar satellite data?
- How many Earth Observations satellites are in space in 2018?
- What do colours mean in satellite imagery?
- Why understanding spatial resolution is important?
- How many satellites are orbiting the Earth in 2016?
- Can you see the Great Wall of China from space?
Focusing purely on the blogs written this year, the top two you already know and the remaining eight slots, in order, are:
- New Hyperspectral satellite!
- Data.Space 2019 & New Year Lists
- Egypt’s Latest Earth Observation Satellite Launched
- To Copernicus & Beyond!
- Feedback Wanted – interesting that this made the top ten as it was only written in the middle of December!
- UK Earth Observation Industry’s Balancing Act
- What happens when things go wrong in space?
- Celebrating 3 Years of Sentinel-3!
This is our sixth full year of writing blogs – meaning we’ve put out over 300 articles! It is a lot of work, but the number of people who come up to us at meetings and conferences and tell us how much they enjoy reading them encourages us to carry on. We have students who tell us they read the blog and then decided they wanted to work in space, we know journalists and other writers use some of our blogs as sources of information, and even a number of people in the industry tell us they read them to know what is happening! So, you can look forward to another 51 blogs in 2020 – we never write one for Christmas!
We’d like to thank everyone for taking the time to read and comment on the blogs, and we hope we can catch your eye a few times again next year.
We’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and a successful 2020!
