Views, reactions, and followers on DEV in 2022
Tags: meta, watercooler, productivity, graphs
Published: 2023-01-01 08:27:14

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title: Views, reactions, and followers on DEV in 2022
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Some numbers from the [dashboard](https://dev.to/dashboard)

I subscribed to DEV on 2017.10.11 but hardly posted articles till 2022.11.21 when I started to get involved in this community a lot more.

* 2017: 3 articles
* 2018: 0
* 2019: 0
* 2020: 14 articles
* 2021: 7 articles
* 2022: 83 articles
* TOTAL: 107 articles

I Published 83 articles between 21 November and 31 December 2022 or about 2 articles a day.

It had an impact.

There are now 710 followers, most of them started to follow me in the last 40 days.

There were 664 post reactions so far and 26,289 total post views.

* more than 10,000 views: 1 article 
* 1,000-10,000 views: 1 article
* 100-1000 views: 34 articles
* 25-100 views: 54 articles
* less than 25 views: 17 articles

## My most popular post by far was the

{% embed https://dev.to/szabgab/billions-of-unnecessary-files-in-github-i85 %}

It received 50 likes, 59 bookmarks, 40 comments and  13,639 views.

That's more views than all the other articles combined.

## Second place

{% embed https://dev.to/szabgab/open-source-development-courses-5d4b %}

With 8 likes, 10 bookmarks, 0 comments, and 1,598 views.

## Third place

{% embed https://dev.to/szabgab/what-does-if-name-main-do-in-python-4o11 %}

With 13 likes, 8 bookmarks, 7 comments, and 868 views.

## Analytics Graphs

The [analytics](https://dev.to/dashboard/analytics) page shows some interesting graphs. Unfortunately it does not show data between arbitrary dates or at least "last year", but the graphs are interesting anyway.

The **infinity** graphs are interesting as they show that whatever I did before November 2022 hardly registers.
The **month** graphs below, already show much more nuanced information.

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/t15hs4m3ik869eank6no.png)


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/3w7ridxkxiz2d12bc6ao.png)

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/806d43oze0jsp7b31l14.png)

Month:

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/4iis2vjw4z2ecopyt17c.png)

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/06quysaq92g5atmkbsql.png)


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/bfl3dqo8pbde118l748e.png)



## Conclusion

It was a short year for me on DEV. I thought it was successful even before that most popular article came out, but that clearly doubled it.

I think I can assume that going forward most of my articles will received less than 100 views and only a few get more than 1000 views.

I did not figure out how to create posts that get thousands of views, but I think I understand how to grow continuously.

I need to continue **publishing content that interests the DEV readers daily**. Maybe even twice a day.

Then more people will follow and on average more people will see my articles. How many more. Only the future will tell.

Happy New Year!