Happy near year! Thanks to all my followers for continuing to support this site. While my written posts definitely declined in 2013 — in part due to a more intense schedule — I began providing Adobe Lightroom Preset downloads which drove quite a bit of traffic growth last year.
I spent a little time today analyzing the data, looking at which presets were downloaded when, and came up with a few visuals to share. In total, there were over 44k free downloads of my presets in just over a year (this doesn’t count the subset of paid downloads). Here’s a high level interactive view across all the presets:
Speakeasy, Behind the Scenes, and Bright Eyes were clearly the most popular. Looking at daily downloads over time shows a trend of increased downloads as I added more presets early in the year. There’s a lull in the summer when I didn’t add many, and then they pick up again later in the year when I added some new ones:
Finally, I thought it would be interesting to view cumulative downloads by preset over time. The slope of the curve shows the rate at which total downloads for each preset grew. Speakeasy and Behind the Scenes were added months after my first bunch, but grew to be the first and third most popular downloads by the spring:
Fun with data. If you’re interested, you can check out and download my Lightroom presets here. Again, happy new year and thanks to everyone who supports this site!