{"id":23038,"date":"2017-12-31T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=23038"},"modified":"2017-12-30T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T02:16:43","slug":"top-posts-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=23038","title":{"rendered":"Top posts of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2017 was a good year for me personally.  This is reflected in the blog, with an array of posts chronicling my life over the past year.  The posts resulted in 60k visitors to the blog, and while that may be down from last year I will consider that an improvement given <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18542\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DarkerView was not hacked<\/a> to serve porn this year.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to check the most popular posts.  These do not necessarily represent the top read posts for the year as most folks read the latest post on the home page.  Rather the top posts are the ones that gather steady traffic from search results, people looking for information on the subject and finding it in the archive of back posts&#8230;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:100%\">\n<col style=\"width:80%\">\n<col style=\"width:20%\">\n<tr>\n<th>Post\t\t\t\t\t<\/th>\n<th>Hits<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2719\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Backyard Telescope Pier<\/a>\t\t<\/td>\n<td>3379<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=21350\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tragedy on Mauna Kea<\/a>\t\t<\/td>\n<td>1980<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6573\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astrophotography with the EOS-M<\/a>\t<\/td>\n<td>1536<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8276\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Repairing a Wii Balance Board<\/a>\t<\/td>\n<td>1529<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=19095\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Getting to the Lava (Revised)<\/a>\t<\/td>\n<td>1449<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12770\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starscape Photography<\/a>\t\t<\/td>\n<td>1436<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=22685\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Consequences of a Bad LED<\/a>\t\t<\/td>\n<td>1411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6127\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rewiring a Celestron NexStar Telescope<\/a><\/td>\n<td> 809<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18381\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viewing the ISS<\/a>\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td> 747<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6476\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visiting the Summit of Mauna Kea<\/a>\t<\/td>\n<td> 656<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18253\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Restoring an Orange Tube Celestron C8<\/a><\/td>\n<td> 622<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17158\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Street Photography with the Canon EOS-M3<\/a><\/td>\n<td> 585<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18369\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fungus on Glass<\/a>\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td> 575<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17101\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canon EOS-M3 Review<\/a>\t\t<\/td>\n<td> 541<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20821\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shooting the Canon EOS M5<\/a>\t\t<\/td>\n<td> 518<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>In the list only a few of the posts are from this year.  Most represent popular posts from the past several years, posts that continue to be steadily popular.  This is in many ways the measure of a good blog, people find the back archive of posts valuable, that Darker View represents good content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 was a good year for me personally. This is reflected in the blog, with an array of posts chronicling my life over the past year. The posts resulted in 60k visitors to the blog, and while that may be down from last year I will consider that an improvement given DarkerView was not hacked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=23038\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top posts of 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[27,2510,2509,775],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23043,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23038\/revisions\/23043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}