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Some statistics about the 52 mazes I featured this year:
It includes 19 sign mazes, 16 building mazes, 5 monument mazes, 4 landscape mazes, 4 sculpture mazes and 4 miscellaneous mazes.
44 were based on things in the USA, with only 4 other countries represented: France, Australia, Mexico and UAE.
11 were made in black and white, 12 in color and black and white versions, and 29 in full color !
Here are the 52 weekly mazes in order (with links to their downloads):
This is my year end review for the website to reflect on what I accomplished for the year. In the past, I made a lot of mazes, but this year I focused on making less mazes and each being of higher quality. I do this post each year and I keep the previous years data.…so 4 years of progress !!
Weekly (Daily) Mazes posted:
54 in 2022 vs. 640 in 2021 vs. 366 in 2020 vs. 365 in 2019
This was the big change for the website. Daily Mazes became weekly mazes. I did one each week, with a few weeks containing variations. Basically a few more than 52.
Blog Posts:
132 vs. 291 vs. 102 vs. 26
I cut back on the number of posts. Each weekly maze has it’s own blog post, and I still do maze movie reviews. I also spent some quality time updating any post from previous years that still had a high amount of traffic.
Name Mazes Made
13 vs. 4 vs. 247 vs. 1,499
This was one of my first projects. You can read about how I chose the names if you are interested. So 2022 and 2021 meant only doing requests when they were submitted, and not many were. Maybe it is because I have covered all the important names already ?
Books posted online:
2 vs. 12 vs. 8 vs. 19
In my first 3 years of the site I created a lot of free downloadable content. By my count that was 39 books, some of which have been retired or improved. When you make hundreds of mazes a year this makes sense. This year - not so much, just a few Christmas books I had never published before.
Books Published on Amazon:
0 vs. 0 vs. 3 (13 versions) vs. 0
I published my first 3 books on Amazon. I have 3 additional books sitting on the shelf, ready for publication if I come up with a marketing plan.
Website Traffic growth:
+47% vs LY, 2021: 242% vs LY, +1000%+ the PY
Hoping for even more growth in 2023 ! Each year growth gets a bit smaller as I grow the site.
Different countries visiting the site:
100 vs. 100 vs. 99 vs. 20
I think that the countries are actually higher than 100, but the analytics dashboard stops there ? Largest growth came from Jamaica, Chile, Lithuania, Saudi Arabia and Hungary.
Requests for Maze use:
About the same to slightly higher
YouTube Videos Created and watched:
Zero created, but views were up to LY by about 50%.
YouTube Subscribers:
Up. 2X LY technically.
RSS Subscribers to the blog:
Fluctuates during the year. Currently flat to LY.
Books Sold on Amazon:
Slightly down
So that is my year in review. I learned a lot. I hope to continue growing the site, making more books, and of course posting some interesting mazes !!
I hope you had a great holiday and are able to enjoy some time off. My final weekly maze of the year, weekly maze #52 is a VERY LARGE Snowflake Maze.
If you are looking for a good collection or book for Kids that includes many different types of holiday mazes you can find them here.
The Maze: Black and white. Very large. Colorable. A LONG solution !
Snowflake Maze
Tale of Tales is a movie about a variety of fairytales intertwined into 3 different storylines that revolve around kings and queens. You get some nice performances from Salma Hayek, John C Reilly, Vincent Cassel, and Toby Jones and the cinemaphotography is also good. It is also a movie that won a lot of awards for costume design, which I did not know until researching the movie after having watched it, and I must say it makes a lot of sense.
There is a maze scene in the movie because Salma Hayek’s queen character has a stone maze outside her castle. Check out the screengrab below. While most movies would have gone with a traditional hedge maze in the gardens, this stone version looks daunting.
Overall, there are some nice moments in the movie, and it is worth a watch if you like movies from this period or enjoy any of the actors.
I give it a 6.3/10.
Additional posts and sections you may like:
The 10 best maze themed horror movies
The 10 best maze movie posters
5 Absolutely terrible maze movies to never ever watch ever. really. don’t watch them