diff --git a/layouts/_default/stats.html b/layouts/_default/stats.html
index d275e95..8cb0297 100644
--- a/layouts/_default/stats.html
+++ b/layouts/_default/stats.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   <article class="row justify-content-center">
     <div class="col-md-8">
       {{ .Content }}
+      {{ $tags := .Site.Taxonomies.tags }}
       {{ $posts := where site.RegularPages "Type" "blog" }}
 
       {{ $postCount := len $posts }}
@@ -42,6 +43,10 @@
           <td>Average Words per Post</td>
           <td>{{ $avgPostLength | lang.NumFmt 0 }}</td>
         </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Number of Topics</td>
+          <td>{{ len $tags | lang.NumFmt 0 }}</td>
+        </tr>
         <tr>
           <td>Longest Post Published</td>
           <td>
diff --git a/layouts/blog/list.html b/layouts/blog/list.html
index 8133c8e..81e4ff5 100644
--- a/layouts/blog/list.html
+++ b/layouts/blog/list.html
@@ -3,6 +3,21 @@
   <main>
   {{ partial "search.html" . }}
   {{ partial "tags/all.html" . }}
+
+  <br/>
+  {{ $posts := where site.RegularPages "Type" "blog" }}
+  {{ $postCount := len $posts }}
+  {{ range last 1 $posts }}
+    {{ $tags := .Site.Taxonomies.tags }}
+    <div style="font-size: 1.5rem; max-width: 30rem; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
+    Hello! This page contains <strong>{{ $postCount | lang.NumFmt 0 }} posts</strong>
+    written in the past <strong>{{ div (sub now.Unix .Date.Unix) 31536000 }} years</strong>
+    spanning {{ len $tags }} topics within the dropdown above.
+    </div>
+  {{ end }}
+
+
+
   <!-- contents -->
   <div id="contentsList">
     {{ $listPageDateFormat := .Site.Params.listPageDateFormat | default "January, 2006"}}