The past 2 years have been particularly busy in my professional life. I’ve not found as many opportunities to blog as I might otherwise had liked and this year, I’m going to look to change that. (If you’re unfamiliar with the Oracle ACE program, the year begins on the 1st June (which clearly will feel somewhat unfamiliar to many readers).

Here are some statistics of my blogging journey in recent years. If I reflect, I started really small. To some, this site is still “small”, but I’m really proud that I’m reaching so many of you with my content and seeing year on year growth – though, I won’t count my chickens until they have hatched.. I’ll only grow on 2024 if I continue to keep sharing valuable content with you all.

Whilst I’m here – for those of you thinking about starting to share knowledge via blogs, there is no way in 2021, I thought that I would be pulling in 17.5k views annually by the end of 2024. I have not pushed my blogs, I have not marketed them, I have not monetized them – this is me just sharing the trials and tribulations of an Oracle-focused professional. Proper organic growth as some would say. Even if you don’t think it’s all that impressive, I’m pretty proud of myself.

Here is a look at my total views by years and months:

Here is a look at my average views per day:

Here are my all-time highlights.

Here is what my views break down to aligned to the Oracle ACE calendar, specifically aligned to the number of posts.

Oracle ACE Year	Number of Posts	Number of Views	Number of Visitors
21/22	8	2.2k (+100%)	1.5k (+100%)
22/23	22	7.1k (+221%)	5k (+224%)
23/24	11	13.3k (+89%)	10k (+101%)
24/25	12	17.4k (+31%)	15.8k (+35%)
25/26	?	?	?

Interestingly, in the last year (and actually before that too if you look into the stats!), my post Oracle PL/SQL: SELECT INTO is the most popular – you can’t beat the old favourites. To be honest – there is reflection in this itself. Years ago, I was told “PAH – We won’t have access to the Oracle DB in a SaaS world so we don’t need SQL/PLSQL skills anymore”. How wrong that viewpoint is – the stats speak for themselves!

With all that said, I do still “only” have 21 subscribers (thankyou!). Please consider subscribing to my blog if my content interests/can help you (expect posts on all things Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Database and with a specific focus on Oracle Integration). – look at me, pushing my blog when earlier I said I didn’t do such a thing!

By doing so, you will receive immediate notifications (email) when I post new content. I will never charge for subscription and will never restrict content content to subscribers only (sorry!). So.. I guess if I still have 21 subscribers this time next year, I have myself to blame. But, I believe in knowledge sharing with everyone.

Just incase you don’t believe me on monetization,

Lastly, if you need more evidence of why you should subscribe, the stats show that (generally speaking), I get a good engagement rate with my post notification emails.

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A special mention to the team over at https://oracle-integration.cloud/ – Robert Van Molken and Phil Wilkins who not only have continuously shared my blog posts on their monthly roundups, but, through their book, advocacy of Oracle Cloud and simply just being great people, really sparked something within me to specialize within the Oracle Integration landscape back when I was just a eager junior (many moons ago at the Oracle PaaS forum in Budapest). Further special mention to Phil who introduced me to the Oracle ACE community and gave me something to reach for. Kudos guys, thankyou.