My 2025 Year in Review

This is my year end review for the website to reflect on what I accomplished for the year. I do this post each year and I keep the previous years data.…so 7 years of progress !! Here are my other posts about the year:

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And now the data for the year:

Weekly (Daily) Mazes posted:

2025: 52 - Mazes of the week, plus a few extras (25 vehicle)

2024: 53 - Mazes of the week, each with an alternative colorway !

2023: 52 - Mazes of the week - see all 52 in this video !

2022: 54 - Mazes of the week

2021: 640 - daily mazes with some Spanish language variations

2020: 366 - daily mazes

2019: 365 - daily mazes


Blog Posts:

2025: 327 - includes updates to over 100 old posts

2024: 227 (160 remain on the site)

2023: 192 (138 remain on the site)

2022: 132 (68 remain on the site)

2021: 291 (168 remain on the site)

2020: 102 (61 remain on the site)

2019: 26 (8 remain on the site)

If you want to read the blog posts that remain, check out my blog index. I anticipate more blog posts in 2025 as I increase my updating schedule to keep posts fresh ! But 927 blog posts about mazes and labyrinths since the website started is a lot !

Name Mazes Made

2025: 189

2024: 220

2023: 104

2022: 13

2021: 4

2020: 247

2019: 1,499

Since 2021 I have only been doing doing maze name requests when they were submitted. I had many teachers reach out for classrooms full of unique names ! I think I rank well for this on many search engines so I get a lot of maze name traffic !


Books posted online:

2025: 17

2024: 0

2023: 0

2022: 2

2021: 12

2020: 8

2019: 19

I made many new sections on the site which included books.

Books Published on Amazon:

2025: 5

2024: 0

2023: 0

2022: 0

2021: 13

2020: 0

2019: 0

I launched a series of books in the Fall. If you like Arrow Mazes, this was a good year for you !

Website Traffic growth:

2025: + 132% LY

2024: + 33% LY

2023: + 36% LY

2022: + 47% LY

2021: + 242% LY

2020: +1000% PL

2019: **

I did a lot of SEO work. AI seems to like me (before it makes me obsolete?)

Different countries visiting the site:

2025: 207 according to Google analytics ?

2024: 200 according to Google analytics. Depending on how you count the # of countries, that means just about every country. Except North Korea….and I will need to research to see if anyone else is missing.

2023: 169 - I changed how I track this and think the 100 below might have been inaccurate. Out of 195 or so depending on the list you look at.

2022: 100

2021: 100

2020: 99

2019: 20

YouTube Views:

2025: 1,524

2024: 1,972

2023: 2,245

2022: 303

2021: 264

I posted no videos in 2025


YouTube Subscribers:

2025: 36

2024: 31

2023: 17

2022: 6

2021: 3


Pinterest:

I have no idea how to quantify this, but I have a Pinterest Page. It is small. I don’t do much there. Here is my traffic from there to my site:

2025: 1,714 + 57% LY

2024: 1,091 + 343% LY

2023: 318

Large growth as a percent, but a small part of the traffic to the site.

Some statistics about the 52 mazes I featured this year:

  • The first half of the year featured previous mazes that I redid to hopefully improve them. #158-182.

  • The middle section featured mazes I hadn’t previously published for one reason or another (wanted to improve them or they were previous commission mazes) #183-189. They are all types of scenes, from skylines to beaches to mountains.

  • And finally I finished the year with my Land, Air, Sea and Space Collection that featured mazes of vehicles. Each of those mazes can be found in the Vehicle Maze Section of the site. There are 13 Land, 2 Air, 2 Sea and 3 Space Mazes.

So that is my year in review. I have a plan for 2026 which is one of my next blog posts. Expect more mazes that hopefully people like !

The Maze (1953) Movie Review

The Maze (1953) IMDB

The Maze (1953) movie poster

When we discuss maze movies we have to include The Maze from 1953 for 2 main reasons: 1) The title is The Maze so it definitely qualifies 2) The movie starts with shots of the hedge maze that is central to the entire story. That story is of a Scotsman, called Gerald, who moves into a castle that has an adjoining hedge maze. It seems his uncle has died and left him the large castle and the servants that come with it (we should all be so lucky). Gerald’s ex-fiancé, Kitty, travels to the castle with her aunt to see why he broke off the engagement with a letter. Gerald is acting strangely and has aged since she last saw him. Kitty and her aunt try to figure out what has happened to Gerald.

The hedge maze is key to the story and plot. There is only one rule for the maze - do not enter it, which means of course you are going to enter it. I’m sure everything will be fine…right ? I mean the rule was just meant to be a recommendation. Overall, the atmosphere and tone of the movie is well done and the acting is fine. Unfortunately, the problem with the movie comes in the final act with the big reveal which is disappointing and makes no sense. Maybe we can get AI to remake the last 8 minutes of the film ??? I would compare this to an M Night Shyamalan film that has a nice premise but misses the landing.

Random note: There is an Intermission just over 49 minutes into this 80 minute film. Can we all agree that we need these to come back for today’s 3 hour films ? Who can sit in a theater that long without a break ?

You can give the full movie a watch at the link below. From a historical note the very first 3D color movie came out April 10, 1953, Vincent Price‘s The House of Wax. This film followed shortly after in July of the same year, or as it says on the movie poster “3 DIMENSION” but was filmed in black and white. A few slight changes and this may have been historically significant.

I would give this a 5.7/10.

You can watch the entire movie here:

The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) Movie Review

The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) (IMDB)

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) movie poster

The Man With The Golden Gun is the ninth James Bond film and the second (out of 7) starring Roger Moore. The plot revolves around a professional assassin with a golden gun who charges a million dollars per kill. Christopher Lee plays the assassin, named Scaramanga who trains against other assassins in a room that is set-up like a fun-house, and which includes multiple mirror mazes (we learn all of this in the opening sequence that James Bond films are famous for!). If you want to train against other assassins who better to train against than James Bond ? (Léon, John Wick, Ray, The Jackal, Jef, Vincent and Jules, The Bride, Vincent, Nikita are a few options in a list that I started, then kept expanding as I went). I made a strong case for a few others, but James is still probably in the top 10. Is The Terminator considered an assassin ? I’m getting off topic.

Can Bond find the man with the golden gun and spoil his current plot that revolves around solar energy ? 007 does some investigating and follows clues around the world from London to Beirut, Macau, Hong Kong, and Bangkok.

I want to give a shout out to one of my favorite actors from the 70’s and my childhood, Hervé Villechaize. If you do not know the name you probably know him from his catch phrase on a late 70’s tv show “the plane, boss, the plane”. He plays a servant to Scaramanga in the film. Also important is the Bond girl, played by Britt Ekland who had a nice run of movies at this time of Get Carter (1971), The Wicker Man (1973) and this film (1974).

As far as James Bond films go, this one is entertaining and worth a look. It falls firmly in the middle of the pack The cool gadgets that were fun in 1974 are less cool today but you still get the idea !

I give it a 7/10.

Check out the trailer:

Labyrinth Within (2010) Movie Review

What makes a foreign film not so foreign ? How about when it has no dialogue at all ? That is what we have with the short film Labyrinth Within.

Labyrinth Within (2010) (IMDB)

Labyrinth Within (2010) movie poster

A short film with no dialogue. Chances are that is enough to know if you would like this film personally or not. I could speak to the extensive dance sequences in a ballet style and the classical music score that is excellent IMO but even without knowing those things the first line told you if you wanted to see this or not. I could add that there are 3 characters and it is about jealousy - because that is what I read.

Now, if you search for this movie there is a good chance you will be directed to the David Bowie song Within You from the movie Labyrinth, so if you want to take some time and click on the link - - I’ll wait for you. Of course the best part of that is his hair with the MS Escher - Relativity inspired room a close second. Did I get off track ? Labyrinth Within is a ballet short. Not for me, but maybe you’ll like it ?

Here is a link to watch the trailer: