A short technical write-up about aggregating blogging stats and displaying them on a page with Eleventy.

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A walkthrough of building a blog statistics page using Eleventy. Covers creating a custom Eleventy plugin that aggregates post metrics (word counts, post frequency, popular tags) via a custom collection, stripping YAML front-matter before analysis, implementing file-system-based caching to speed up incremental builds from ~10s to ~1s, and rendering the data in Liquid templates. Also shows how to pass per-year stats to ApexCharts for bar chart visualizations.

Stats Page with Eleventy