It’s time for my year-end tradition of a blog review. It’s partly for me, to look back and see what people were most interested in reading, and partly to share with you all what’s been going on in the blog you’ve been following, reading, and commenting on this past year.

The big news on the blog this year was that I finally launched an email newsletter. I send out a short email every other week with an update or message, and a brief recap of the blog posts published between newsletters. If you choose to sign up, it’s a great way for us to keep in touch and you’ll also receive a free copy of my book God’s Love Story.

You can click here to see WordPress’s official summary of 2023 on LikeAnAnchor.com. According to those stats, there were 220,714 page views last year, 289 likes, and 79 comments. That’s not the whole story of the blog, though, so here are some of the stats I that I can see with my behind-the-scenes stats.

10 Posts With The Most Traffic

These ten posts were the most popular on my blog this past year. The top one had 7, 605 views!

1. When God Calls You By Name
2. What Do Other People Think of INFJs?
3. Dating Your Mirror: ENFP and INFJ Relationships
4. Water, Spirit, Fire: The Three Baptisms of Christianity
5. How Do Other People See INTJ Personality Types?
6. INFJ Dark Side
7. How To Tell If An INFJ Likes You?
8. Religion and the INFJ
9. How Do I Know If I’m an INFJ or an ENFJ?
10. 5 Relationships Problems INFJs Often Struggle With

Top Posts From 2023

Older posts tend to get the most traffic, partly because they’ve been on the site longer and partly because my INFJ content still trends well in search engines. With that in mind, I also like to share the most popular posts published within this past year. Obviously this favors posts published earlier in the year, since they had more time to collect visitors, but I still think it’s interesting to look at them.

1. The Crown of Victory
2. A Closer Look At The Role of Pastors and Shepherds
3. What Can We Learn from Shepherd, Sheep, and Lamb Imagery in the Bible?
4. The Women at Pentecost: Valuing the Contributions of Unnoticed People in Church
5. What If The Proverbs 31 Woman Was Less Intimidating?
6. Relational Faith: A Book Review and Theological Reflection
7. Building People Up in Christ
8. Jesus as the Originator and Trailblazer: A Study of Archegos
9. Witnesses in the Book of Acts
10. The Glory, Importance, and Victory of Other People

5 Most Popular Scripture Writing Plans

Several years ago, I added 30-day scripture writing plans to the resources available on here on Like An Anchor. You can see them all and download them for free by clicking here. These were the most popular in 2023 (ranked by numbers of downloads):

1. Inspiring Music
2. Double Minded
3. Self Control
4. Compassion
5. Big Questions

An honorable mention goes to my chart outlining God’s holy days, which isn’t a scripture writing plan but was the second-most downloaded resource on my blog this year.

Countries With Over 4,000 Visors

I’m always amazed by how many people visit my blog from all over the world. To give you all a glimpse into where your fellow readers are located, here’s a list of the countries home to at least 4,000 blog visitors this past year (I always choose a number as a cut off point for this list, simply for the sake of length).

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada
4. India
5. Philippines
6. Australia
7. Germany
8. Nigeria
9. South Africa
10. Indonesia

A big “thank you” to everyone around the world who subscribes to the blog, reads my posts, and/or takes the time to comment or send me an email. I literally couldn’t/wouldn’t be doing this without your support! May you all have a blessed 2024.

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