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<\/p>\n2014 was a fun year to be a blogger in the Microsoft world. Traffic to my site continued to grow, and eventually I was forced by my web hoster to move to a dedicated virtual machine. I stayed with them for a while before moving to Azure \u2026 and that\u2019s when my traffic more than doubled! I don\u2019t know if was the fact that I am now hosted on Azure or if it\u2019s because I revisited all my WordPress plugins, including SEO.<\/p>\n
Where are these people coming from?<\/p>\n
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The USA dominates. And Ireland punches above it\u2019s weight, probably because I\u2019m Irish, of course. In the USA, California and Texas must be the hotbeds for Hyper-V<\/a>:<\/p>\n Washington State isn\u2019t far behind, and I always chuckle to see how much traffic comes out of Redmond \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n What OS are all these people using?<\/p>\n Obviously Windows desktop OS is the clear winner. I surprised that iOS beats Android. And considering the skewed percentage of Windows Phones used by people in our industry, I am very surprised that Windows Phone is less than 1% of the client OSs hitting my site.<\/p>\n OK, now on to what people are reading. Interestingly, it\u2019s lots of old stuff! <\/p>\n If we look at how active people were on the pages, most have a minute or more of reading. But some folks were more active on some pages causing \u201cevents\u201d as they are called in Google Analytics. The .Net page wins there. But after that it\u2019s a different profile of page, with the content being much newer.<\/p>\n My \u201cMicrosoft News\u201d pages aren\u2019t huge aggregators of hits like the older \u201chow to\u201d articles, but they still create lots of interest every day. And to be honest, I use them as my own personal notebook to keep up with what\u2019s going on \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n So how do I summarize all this? Interest in Hyper-V, etc continues to rise, based on my small sample. People are looking for information on the 2012\/2012 R2 generation of products (that\u2019s good!). But people are struggling with licensing and some techie things that are unwanted distractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2014 was a fun year to be a blogger in the Microsoft world. Traffic to my site continued to grow, and eventually I was forced by my web hoster to move to a dedicated virtual machine. I stayed with them for a while before moving to Azure \u2026 and that\u2019s when my traffic more than … Continue reading “My Top Articles in 2014”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17606,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605\/revisions\/17606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image_thumb13.png\" "\\"image\\"")
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