2025:The Blog Stats

*coffee brewed and already been sipped, it's time for a new Cards Over Coffee*

You thought and had wished that 2025 was over, didn't you? Well, not quite yet on here.

I still have some loose ends to finish up before I move on with this year.

But even before that, I need my coffee and I need it now.

*takes a sip, thinks about the JG Wentworth commercial I just referenced*

Today's post comes thanks to an idea from Night Owl Cards who took the idea from Diamond Jesters. I wanted to make sure to backtrack this correctly and now it's my second year of posting it.

I liked the idea so much last year, I figured I would bring it back this year and try to get it posted earlier in the month and not so late.

Let's start:
This is my 14th year blogging overall but going into my sixth year here on Cards Over Coffee. I just retired Sport Card Collectors at the end of 2025 and will continue to do on and off posts on Big Blue Cardboard, my Giants spinoff blog, occasionally throughout this year when time permits. But, this will be the main blogging focal point.

This blog had 132 posts last year, which was 19 less than 2025 and one of my lowest years since 2023.

The month with the most posts was February with 19 which is followed up with July with 17. The least amount was August with 4 as I was prepping for school.

The highest viewed post last year was the Coffee Break with 2025 Score Football Blaster box with 3177 views.

I don't have exact notes on the most commented post of last year as I replied to every comment, but I will say I had roughly 4-5 comments per post which is a yearly average high for me on here.

This blog has 72 followers. Which is same from the previous year. My goal is still to reach 80 on here by year's end.

As for blog stats, I don't quite know how to read this chart and how this is broken down, not sure if it's views per month or what, but it appears this blog was on the rise in 2025 despite my lack of posts. I guess that's a good thing and maybe it will continue to rise as long as I can post more.

When it comes to my card additions, I don't have the card breakdown for last year for what I added to my PC, there was so many coming and going but I hope to keep track of some stats this year such as incoming cards, leaving cards and how many trades I made. Next year my hope is that this post will be more detailed and this will only count cards coming from January 1st on so any I post from Christmas won't count.

Well, there you have it. Let me know in comments if anything surprised you.

I hope everyone has a great Friday! I have basketball practice tonight before our first game tomorrow!

*final sip*

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

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2026 New Year's Goals

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

HAPPY NEW CUP OF COFFEE OF THE NEW YEAR!!

*takes a sip*

Today's post is my attempt like many others of making a list of things I hope to do and changes I want to make that I won't end up doing or making the changes to. 

Just trying to be honest.

But, here's my list of goals anyways. Maybe I will actually do one.

This year, I have some things to accomplish in the hobby, blog and personally.

Personally, I put on the ten pounds I wanted to lose last year and I am heading into the wrong direction with my health conditions so I want to lose that. I also want to make sure I can balance out life and school better this year. But, that also means I hope to actually continue with school and keep the momentum from Semester one going.

For the hobby, I really need to cut back from last year's massive list. I feel like between life and school now, my hobby list needs to be way shorter to feel like I can accomplish some of the things I hope to.

• I need to penny sleeve all of my inserts. I have tons of penny sleeves now, it's time to do the longer part of the job.
• Label my boxes like my binders and re-number them all (everything is lost right now)
• Binder up my non-sport cards and sort them by sets.
• Remove the index cards from my Giants PC and use Card Dividers instead (index cards are too flimsy and hard to read)
• Complete my Griffey card count and get a final number
• Put away all of the cards from 2025 that need to be taken care of (two 5000 count boxes full)
• Update my Rodney Hampton PC on TCDB
• Focus on finishing up some long time 90's sets, I am looking at you 1997 Spx basketball

Now onto my blogging ones,

• List more set needs on the blog
• List PWE trade cards on the blog
• Reach 80 followers
• Reach One Million Views (it's a reach, but hey)
• Blog. Just blog.

There you have it. A much more condensed list then last year, but this is also a list of things that will take awhile to do.

I may do a couple check-in posts like last year on these to see how far I have gotten or not gotten. 

Let me know some of your New Years Goals (especially if it involves coffee and cards) in comments and any thoughts on mine.

*final sip of the new cup of the new post of the new year*

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Ps: If you haven't yet done so, please vote in Trading Card Database Site Awards. Voting ends January 10th with winners being announced on January 11th. There are a great variety of categories to vote in...including Favorite Blog :) You can vote on those HERE.