2024 is here and with it, we say a final goodbye to 2023. Well, only a goodbye in regards to numbers, our memories will stay. So let us summarize our website’s statistics for the last year. A year that saw an increase of 10.6% in the number of visitors to our site. So which were our 10 most popular posts? From where did our readers come? Let us have a look.
In the list below you can also find similar posts summarizing the previous years.
Our Top 10 Posts in 2023
Our friend Čumil in Bratislava keeps being our most popular post also in 2023. Two new posts saw a large number of readers upon posting and several other new posts from the year was just outside of the top 10. So here i the top 10 posts of 2023. Position last year within the parenthesis.
- Sights in Bratislava – Čumil, Man at Work (1)
- Madeira With an Infant: Top 3 Reasons Why You Should Go (4)
- Slovak Garlic Soup or Cesnaková Polievka (3)
- The Christmas Gift Game – The Biveros Version (6)
- Slovak Cabbage Soup – Kapustnica (2)
- Sights in Bratislava – The Border Tripoint (5)
- Kroer, Follo – Exploring Norway (NEW)
- Aegina and Agistri, Greece – A Day Trip from Athens (8)
- Sonstorps Bruk, Östergötland – Exploring Sweden (NEW)
- Kista, Stockholm – Exploring Sweden (18)
And to remind you of the posts that were popular in 2022, here are the three that have had to make room for new posts in the top 10.
- Amsterdam, Netherlands – 6-Hour Layover at Schiphol Airport (7)
- Lindos, Rhodes – A Tourist Madness (9)
- Driving on Kefalonia, Greece (10)
Where Did Our Readers Come From?
We were quite addicted to Google Analytics. Since the start of 2023, we have moved over to Matomo due to the changes with Google Analytics. So the data might look a bit different, but we still like to see where our readers come from. So let us have a look at where in the world you all come from. There have been readers from a total of 170 countries in 2023, here below we will have a look at the top 10.
Top 10 Countries 2023
The numbers represent the position in previous years (2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016)
- Sweden (1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2)
- United States (2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1)
- United Kingdom (3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3)
- Germany (5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 11)
- Malta (7 | 14 | 41 | 33 | 55 | 63 | 68)
- Netherlands (4 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 19)
- Slovakia (9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6)
- Finland (6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4)
- Spain (12 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 17)
- Canada (10 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5)
Compared to 2022, one country dropped out of the top 10.
25. Czech Republic (8 | 27 | 25 | 19 | 19 | 8 | 31)
Top 20 Countries Overall
So how does it look for the last 8 years? This is the overall standings of the top 20. Within parentheses is their position for each year (2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016).
- Sweden (1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2)
- United States (2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1)
- United Kingdom (3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3)
- Finland (8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4)
- Slovakia (7 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6)
- Germany (4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 11)
- Canada (10 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5)
- Netherlands (6 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 19)
- Spain (9 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 17)
- Malta (5 | 7 | 14 | 41 | 33 | 55 | 63 | 68) ↑ +5
- Australia (15 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 8) ↓ -1
- Greece (14 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 36 | 52) ↓ -1
- France (16 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 12 | 20) ↓ -1
- India (22 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 10) ↓ -1
- Austria (12 | 15 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 18 | 19 | 43) ↑ +2
- Belgium (20 | 20 | 17 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 7)
- Norway (13 | 12 | 18 | 26 | 22 | 22 | 34 | 33) ↑ +2
- Czech Republic (25 | 8 | 27 | 25 | 19 | 19 | 8 | 31) ↓ -4
- Italy (19 | 22 | 19 | 19 | 15 | 13 | 20 | 16) ↓ -1
- Hungary (17 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 13 | 14 | 25 | 23)
We still have a lot to write about from the past year, so a lot more will come.
See you all out there in our big wide world in 2024! Happy New Year!
