This document summarizes the results of the 2018 Top vBlog awards. It provides statistics on the number of blogs and voters each year since 2009. It explains the scoring process, which awards points based on voter rankings, number of blog posts, and Google Pagespeed scores. The top 50 blogs are then counted down, with their rank, total points, number of votes, and individual scores listed. Category winners are also announced. In under 3 sentences, this document analyzes the 10-year history and 2018 results of the annual Top vBlog awards.

2. Introductions
 Your emcee’s for the show:

3. State of blogging today
 Why do people do it?
 Value of blogging?
 How to be successful at blogging
 Is blogging declining?
 Value of vExpert program

4. It all started with this…

5. History of Top vBlog
Year # blogs Voters
2009 20 350
2010 66 700
2011 115 860
2012 187 1200
2013 243 1300
2014 320 1400
2015 411 2200
2016 321 1600+
2017 273 1600+
2018 268 2000+
 2009 – 1st public voting
 2010 – blogging gets popular
 2011 – 1st results podcast
 2012 – start of blog explosion
 2014 – 1st live results show
 2016 – 10 post minimum
 2017 – add point modifiers
 2018 – 10 year anniversary

6. A word from our sponsor
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7. Some stats this year
 2000+ votes, 400 more than last year
 268 blogs compared to 273 blogs last year
 50+ new blogs this year
 11 new blogs made it to the top 50
 6 new blogs made it into the top 25
 4 new blogs made it into in top 10
 6 position changes in the top 10

8. Scoring process
 People pick 12 favorite blogs then rank them
 #1 vote = 12 points, #2 vote = 11 points,
down to a #12 vote = 1 point
 2 new point modifiers this year:
 # of posts in 2016 - 2 per post, 400 max
 Google Pagespeed score – 200 possible * GPS %
 Total point score = Voting points + post points
+ Pagespeed points

9. What is Pagespeed?
 Analyze and optimize your site following
web best practices
 Gtmetrix.com will benchmark your site
 Scores with Yslow & Google Pagespeed
 Follow recommendations to optimize
 Images is #1 cause of slowness
 Consider using caching server like
Cloudflare

10. Pagespeed displays
optimization recommendations

11. Waterfall Chart displays loading
behavior

12. Blog pet peeves
 Being anonymous
 No dates on posts
 No social links
 Hard to read blog theme
 Difficult navigation
 One blog post per page
 Annoying pop-ups
 No search bar

14. Counting down…
2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
25 27 +2 1288 159 994 10 63 126 84 168

15. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
24 14 -10 1333 160 981 13 141 282 35 70

16. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
23 33 +10 1435 153 1173 42 61 122 70 140

17. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
22 17 -5 1483 213 1247 20 25 50 93 186

18. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
21 84 +63 1493 171 1187 27 91 182 62 124

19. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
20 26 +6 1500 148 946 26 600 400 77 154

20. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
19 23 +4 1591 194 1075 6 182 364 76 152

21. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
18 22 +4 1592 225 1352 4 37 74 83 166

22. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
17 31 +14 1618 193 1210 7 115 230 89 178

23. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
16 30 +14 1635 159 1127 36 184 368 70 140

24. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
15 19 +4 2173 251 1841 41 88 176 78 156

25. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
14 8 -6 2210 311 1848 9 139 278 42 84

26. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
13 12 -1 2498 328 2262 26 39 78 79 158

27. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
12 4 -8 2587 349 2385 5 32 64 69 138

28. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
11 7 -4 2594 362 2338 7 45 90 83 166

29. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
10 11 +1 2596 323 2330 29 48 96 85 170

30. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
9 9 0 2599 333 2247 31 53 106 95 190

31. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
8 10 +2 2618 381 2356 15 59 118 72 144

32. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
7 15 +8 2622 284 2370 88 46 92 80 160

33. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
6 16 +10 2635 326 2363 11 49 98 87 174

34. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
5 6 +1 2735 373 2455 12 61 122 79 158

35. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2018 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
4 5 +1 2998 360 2554 4 123 246 99 198

36. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
3 3 0 4747 548 4417 22 78 156 87 174

37. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
2 2 0 5060 556 4542 92 300 400 59 118

38. Counting down…
2018
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2017 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
1 1 0 7440 766 7074 235 113 226 70 140

39. Category winners
Favorite Female Blogger Favorite Storage Blog
Favorite Non-ENGLISH Blog Favorite Scripting Blog
Favorite NEW Blog Favorite Podcast
Favorite News/info website Favorite Independent blogger
vMiss (Melissa Palmer) Cormac Hogan
Jorge de la Cruz Virtually Ghetto (William Lam)
Digital Vspace (Tony Reeves) Virtually Speaking (Flecha/Nicholson)
VCDX133 (Rene Van Den Bedem)The Register Virtualization News

40. Closing comments
 Congrats to all the winners!
 Keep on blogging, it’s a journey not a race
 We’ll be back next year (Fall 2019)!
 Sponsorship available, contact me for
details
 Send suggestions & feedback to
esiebert7625@yahoo.com