We’ve made it through another year. Aldi Reviewer is now almost two and a half years old, and this past year was our best ever. We added lots of new posts, reviewed many new products, gained new readers, and learned a lot ourselves. Here are a few highlights:
- Total new posts for 2018: 222
- Total posts for the lifetime of Aldi Reviewer: 528
- Reigning all-time most-viewed post: Camping With Aldi, Part 1: Tents and Bedding (2018)
- How many words we wrote in 2018: more than 140,000
- Total website views in 2018: more than 1.1 million
- Total visitors in 2018: more than 740,000
- First post of 2018: Italian Sub, Aldi Style
- Most viewed Regular Buy compliation post of 2018: Indian Food, Aldi Style, Part 1: The Regular Buys
- Most viewed Regular Buy single item post of 2018: Heart to Tail Premium Adult Cat Food Indoor Formula
- Most viewed ALDI Find / Special Buy compilation post of 2018: Camping With Aldi, Part 1: Tents and Bedding (2018)
- Most viewed ALDI Find / Special Buy single item post of 2018: Easy Home Robotic Vacuum
- Most viewed feature post of 2018: Are Aldi and Trader Joe’s the Same Company?
- Most commented post for 2018: iTECH Fitness Watch
- Post we were most excited about in 2018: Aldi Warranties: SOHL Furniture Writing Desk
- Our favorite post that almost no one read in 2018: Easy Home Essentials Extra Durable Eraser Pads
- That time a commenter probably knew what he was talking about more than we did in 2018: Friendly Farms Whole Milk
- Number of times a post got so out of control we had to split it in 2018: 2 (Aldi Fall Products Roundup, Part 1: Non-Food Items and Aldi Fall Products Roundup, Part 2: Food Items, and then Christmas with Aldi, Part 1: Non-Food Items (2018) and Christmas with Aldi, Part 2: Food Items (2018))
- The biggest thing we still need to review: More Aldi camping supplies, plus the Aldi exercise bike
- The biggest surprise we have in store for next year: stay tuned!
