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We at RouterFreak are thrilled to share the results of our 2025 audience survey. First and foremost, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who took the time to participate. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us understand your needs, preferences, and challenges in the ever-evolving world of network engineering.
As a community-driven platform, your input is crucial in shaping the direction of our content. This survey has provided us with rich insights into the topics you’re most interested in, the formats you prefer, and the areas where you feel you need more support in your professional development.
In this post, we’ll break down the key findings from the survey and discuss how we plan to use this information to enhance your RouterFreak experience. From emerging technologies to practical how-to guides, we’re committed to delivering content that resonates with your professional needs and interests.
Let’s dive into what we’ve learned about our community and how it will influence our future content strategy.
Oh, and one more note, our survey is still open! Please provide us your feedback and we’ll periodically scope up the results to update our content strategy.
Current Job Role in IT
Much to our relief, 65% of our respondents were Network Engineers. It’s great to know that we are surrounded by fellow Engineers!
Years of Experience in the IT Field
We have a decent distribution of junior and senior IT professionals. With 9 respondents with over 30 years of experience, we may be skewing to a slightly older audience but I appreciate the experience and insights those individuals can bring to our community. Or is it that the younger professionals don’t take surveys?
Range: 1 – 42 years
Average: 24.1 years
Where are you located
North America is our preponderance of respondents at 89.5%.
Industry Sectors
While telecommunications is main sector 31.5%, the rest of the responses were fairly evenly distributed.
Certifications Held
It doesn’t surprise us at all the Cisco is leading the way here.
Certifications Pursuing
AWS Certs are making an impressive showing in what our respondents are pursuing for their next certifications.
Most Valuable Content
This question is the highlight for us at RouterFreak. We are taking a look at our content strategy and your responses are guiding our current planning to focus on Troubleshooting guides, In-depth technical articles, and certification preparation materials.
We used a point system to convert survey responses into a ranking, see the results below:
Have you used RouterFreak Content in your Workplace or School?
We are proud of the value we are providing 60% of our respondents who said they have used our content in their workplace or school. I appreciate a couple of the comments that said they used RouterFreak to share concepts or troubleshooting procedures with coworkers.
How often would you like to receive newsletters?
Looks like the overwhelming ask is for weekly newsletters! We are currently on a bi-weekly schedule, but if I can get more content writers to assist us, we’ll get there! And who is this true Freak who wants a daily newsletter from us?!
Our Favorite Comments
What improvements or additions would you like to see:
- Maintaining network knowledge and gaining new skills is expensive. Perhaps RF could provide info on cost efficient and free educational materials
- A dojo system
We love this idea and are in the concept stages of building a Networking Certification CTF / Test prep web app
What do you like most about RouterFreak:
- It’s freaky
- Freeness
- The accuracy and thoroughness of articles and information
The Roadmap
Don’t worry, this will be one of the only roadmaps on the internet that doesn’t include a memecoin.
We are hard at work improving RouterFreak to provide outstanding FREE network engineering content.
Q1 2025
- Backend Infrastructure upgrades – to improve website speed and responsiveness for mobile users (40% of our visitors are on mobile devices)
- Writer Recruiting – finding experienced network engineers to assist with writing in-depth technical articles and troubleshooting guides
- Industry Partnerships – we will keep RouterFreak free to our users through the support of networking equipment vendors and also draw on their staff’s expertise in developing troubleshooting guides
- Expand Free content – We are working to expand our free downloads area which currently contains Visio Stencils (always looking for more!) to also include Python scripts for network automation and also making our eBook offering free!
Q2 2025
- Develop RouterFreak CTFs for certification preparation and skills maintenance. We envision this augmenting our written content by allowing for hands on practice of basic skills, combined with flash cards and/or quizzes to validate knowledge on subjects
Call for Feedback
Let us know at info@routerfreak.com or in a comment below if you like the direction we are planning to go and if you have any suggestions.
