Writers write, but sometimes we don’t share. I go months without posting, even to the point of people questioning my mortality.

In 2015, I migrated my website from Drupal to WordPress. It was time.

As much as I liked Drupal, it seemed to be becoming less user-friendly, more exclusionary in its design – the bar not just for entry, but for keeping current on how it worked, was becoming higher with each release. It may not have been meant as an FU to non-technical hobbyists like me, but it felt like it.

And frankly, but 2015 it was pretty obvious that WordPress was eating Drupal and Joomla’s lunch, so the decision wasn’t difficult.

This is all to say that I have Jetpack stats for the WordPress iteration of my site, but not for my Drupal version.

And given that so far in 2026, I’ve managed to blog absolutely nothing, I thought I’d look into my stats and see what I’d done n the past.

One data point that I’m sharing now is just for fun – the number of posts per year and the average word count. I’ve posted as many as twenty-eight times in one calendar year, and as few as four.

In some years, I’ve been much wordier, posting on average over 700 words per post. Other years the number sits below 600 words per post (2026 being in progress, and with my habit of posting in clusters around July and August, I’m excluding this current year).

There are other data points – such as the fact that I tend to post in clusters, followed by long droughts. This would indicate that I should write when I have the ideas, but release posts in a pattern that more resembles a schedule or at least a disbursement.

Are there other insights bro be found? Sure, but those are for me, and for some of them I need time to digest.