# 2019 Recap: Blog Growth, Work Projects, and Mailchimp Presents

DevFeed: [2019 Recap: Blog Growth, Work Projects, and Mailchimp Presents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/into-2020-37288.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://muffinman.io/blog/into-2020/>)

Author: Stanko

Published: 2019-12-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Stanko Tadić](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/stanko-tadic.md>)

Topics: [Contentful](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/contentful.md>), [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [static-site-generator](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/static-site-generator.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [contentful](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contentful.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [static-site-generator](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/static-site-generator.md>), [traffic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traffic.md>)

## AI overview

A personal 2019 recap covering blog analytics, work at Work & Co, the Mailchimp Presents media portal, collaboration with IKEA, and side projects. The Mailchimp project used a GatsbyReact static site generator, Contentful, and GraphQL API.

## Source excerpt

Last time I wrote one of these recaps was in 2016. Not sure why I waited three years to write another, and from now on I'll try to do these annually. 2019 was a good year for me, and I want to highlight a couple of things. Blog # I'm really proud of my blog. And judging by the analytics, people are actually reading it - this year I had over 100k users visiting and ~85% of the traffic is coming from the organic search! This is not the first blog I had, but this is the one I'm sticking with. I love how there is a dip every single weekend. People are finding my articles almost exclusively on work days, probably while searching for work related problems. But the bounce rate is also high, almost 85%. After reading one article users are not sticking for long. That is something I want to improve in the next year. Work & Co # It has been a while since I started working with Work & Co, and it continues to be a wonderful experience. I'm thrilled and proud to have the opportunity to collaborate with such talented people. To top it all, this October I was promoted to a Group Technology Director. Mailchimp Presents # One of the projects I had a pleasure of working on this year was Mailchimp Presents. We teamed up with Mailchimp to help them create a brand new media portal. It was a short timeline, but it was a breeze as people from Mailchimp were brilliant to work with. The fact my team crushed it helped as well. It was built around mantra "content is king" and we dedicated a lot of attention to the content recirculation. All shows are Mailchimp originals, and they did incredible job with them. Production is world class, and content is in a short, snackable format for people on the go. You should definitely check it out yourself. We built it using GatsbyReact static site generator and Contentful (using GraphQL API). The stack helped us to move fast and to ship the product in time. The reception was incredible, people love the shows, and conversion numbers are really high. This S