One year of the blog

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you are spending your holidays in the best possible way.

A year has passed (December 22nd) since I posted the first entry to this blog, a filmography of the series, the first iteration of which I compiled on my long-since discarded PC about nine years ago. I kept that post offline for most of the time until January 3rd, making small changes on the way, so maybe that should be seen as the true birthday for the blog. However, let's keep the blog's inception out of 2020, it was bad enough already!

Although 2020 really was nasty (and we still have six more days) on the whole, when it comes to Pat and Mat, for me it was truly extraordinary. I got to open up this blog and connect with fans of the series around the world, but also got the chance to communicate with (and even meet some) people whose work on the series I've long admired. As such, I can only wish more of the same in the next year. I have some things in the locker for all of you as well and hopefully, some will come out soon.

Let's take a look at a couple of stats for the blog. Here is the overall view count... currently at 44K and still going!

Pat and Mat are popular all over the world, so it's only natural that the blog will also have visitors from different cities, areas, countries, even continents. Which country has the worst handymen in the world? Poland. I'm kidding, of course. The fandom in Poland makes up for almost half of the pageviews alone. This is an expected result of different factors: a huge fanbase for the series, Poland being a large country, but also being home to some dedicated readers and friends of the blog. Next up is Czechia, the home of the series, then the Netherlands (another huge fanbase) and then the US. I presume Croatia's position is somewhat skewed as the blog often unintentionally counts my own views and I've also sent links to the blog to several friends. The only surprise is Portugal, where I seem to have a super fan as well. The list is continued by Saudi Arabia, Germany, Slovenia...

Back when I could still see all pageviews in a day (another feature Blogger has degraded), there were some real peculiar and exciting countries to prop up from time to time, like Brazil and Argentina, India, China (is it someone from Steamworks?!), Zimbabwe and the United Arab Emirates. It's a real honor to be able to reach so many different people. I hope you have liked what you have seen so far and let's all hope for many happy returns!