This document summarizes the results of the 2017 Top vBlog awards. It provides statistics on the number of blogs and voters each year since 2009. It then lists the top 25 blogs with their rank, change from the previous year, total points, number of votes, voting points, number of first place votes, number of 2016 posts, and Google Pagespeed points. The document explains the scoring process and introduces the new point modifiers for posts and Pagespeed scores. It concludes by announcing the category winners and a call for feedback to improve future events.

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
 What about book writing?
 Other forms of communications
 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+
 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

6. A word from our sponsor
 Thank you again for helping make this
possible!

7. What’s new this year
 New survey platform – QuestionPro
 New scoring methods
 New blogger giveaway
 New categories
 Duncan & Frank stepped down
 10 post minimum in 2016 to be eligible
 Same great sponsor

8. Some stats this year
 1600+ votes, about same as last year
 273 blogs compared to 321 blogs last year
 62 new blogs this year
 1 new blog (started in 2016) made the top 50
 11 additional blogs made it to the top 50
 8 blogs that made it into the top 25
 4 new blogs in top 10 (one blog DNQ)
 9 position changes in the top 10

9. 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

10. 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

11. Pagespeed displays
optimization recommendations

12. Waterfall Chart displays loading
behavior

14. Counting down…
2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
25 39 +14 1237 146 985 14 63 126 63 126

15. Counting down…
2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
24 22 -2 1303 167 1043 7 111 222 19 39

16. Counting down…
2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
23 31 +8 1332 151 914 5 136 272 73 146

17. Counting down…
2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
22 40 +18 1350 174 1034 2 73 146 85 170

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
21 33 +12 1352 183 1184 8 15 30 69 138

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
20 13 -7 1374 201 1228 7 17 34 56 112

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
19 44 +25 1420 165 1042 15 123 246 66 132

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
18 14 -4 1498 206 1254 17 39 78 83 166

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
17 27 +10 1572 205 1246 18 77 154 86 172

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
16 30 +14 1670 220 1462 10 24 48 80 160

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
15 54 +39 1715 194 1475 41 46 92 74 148

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
14 15 +1 1728 210 1380 14 84 168 90 180

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
13 16 +3 1753 231 1513 33 35 70 85 170

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
12 10 -2 1875 273 1691 7 17 34 75 150

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
11 19 +8 1935 220 1715 30 24 48 86 172

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
10 18 +8 2030 291 1784 16 79 158 44 88

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
9 23 +14 2136 254 1764 32 91 182 95 190

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
8 8 0 2389 294 1929 9 199 398 31 62

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
7 11 +4 2538 367 2258 8 69 138 71 142

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
6 12 +6 2695 384 2293 5 112 224 89 178

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
5 7 +2 3197 397 2831 17 87 174 96 192

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
4 5 +1 3514 434 3242 35 51 102 85 170

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
3 3 0 4559 504 4195 43 94 188 88 176

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
2 6 +4 4630 522 4068 63 240 400 70 140

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2017
Rank
Previous
Rank
Change
Total
Points
Total
Votes
Voting
Points
#1
Votes
2016 Posts Google Pagespeed
# Points % Points
1 2 +1 6985 738 6639 193 103 206 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
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrew Mauro) Virtually Ghetto (William Lam)
24x7 IT Connection (Theresa Miller) vBrownBag (Cody Bunch & Crew)
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)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!
 Send suggestions & feedback to
esiebert7625@yahoo.com