There was a lot more growth to BuildAzure.com (ahem… I mean Build5Nines.com) in 2019. It’s been a couple years since I wrote up a “year in review” post, so I thought I’d do it again this year. Here’s a short summary of the top 25 posts on Build5Nines.com, in addition to other interesting growth statistics of the site in 2019.

2019 Traffic Statistics

Build5Nines.com (formerly BuildAzure.com) has continued to grow throughout 2019. The site saw a traffic growth of 29.53% in 2019 over the year before; with a total page view count of 1,093,542 in the year 2019.

Year	Pageviews	Traffic Growth %
2019	1,093,542	+29.53%
2018	843,460	+27.4%
2017	661,889	+159%
2016	255,154	+1,552%
2015	15,442	Site launched June 2015

Adding up all the page views that Build5Nines.com (formerly BuildAzure.com) has received since the site was launched in June 2015 comes to a total of 2,869,487 page views!

Annual Article Statistics

Every year, every month, and every week that goes by means more articles, weekly newsletters, and overall content growth of the Build5Nines.com (formerly BuildAzure.com) website. In 2019, we published 118 new articles with a total of 170,669 words written.

Year	Total Articles	Total Words
2019	118	170,669
2018	102	141,299
2017	168	158,285
2016	180	104,644
2015	27	11,936

As can be seen, 2019 saw a an increase of articles published over 2018, and an increase in the total words written too. The year 2017 and 2016 saw a higher number of articles published in those years, compared to 2019, however, there were a larger number of words written in 2019 overall than each of those years. The reason for this change is that there has been an emphasis on writing longer, more impactful articles for the site when possible. This is a trend we hope to continue.

Build5Nines.com Timeline

To close out this summary of statistics for Build5Nines.com, let’s take a look at this brief timeline of the most notable events for Build5Nines.com:

Date	Event
December 31, 2019	Build5Nines Weekly newsletter reached 10,000 email subscribers!
November 2019	Website reached over 1 Million page views within a single year
November 2019	Chris Pietschmann and Dan Patrick create Microsoft Certification Exam Self-Assessment open source project
October 2019	BuildAzure.com is rebranded to Build5Nines.com and "Build Azure Weekly" newsletter renamed to "Build5Nines Weekly"
August 2019	First book "The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Certification" written by Chris Pietschmann is published
April 2019	BuildAzure.com ranked #1 Microsoft Azure blog to follow in 2019 by Feedspot
July 2018	The 8th YouTube video is published to channel
May 2018	Author list grows beyond just Chris Pietschmann, to include additional content authors
February 2018	Website reached over 1 Million page views total
June 2017	New logo was designed, going away form the original "/a" logo.
May 2016	Build Azure Weekly email newsletter is started
February 2016	YouTube channel is created
June 2015	BuildAzure.com is launched by Chris Pietschmann

Happy new year! Cheers to what 2020 will bring!

About the Author

Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.