Well, it’s been just over half a year since I started the blog, so I figured I’d post some stats on how thing have been going.

Top 5 posts:

Initially my largest-traffic posts were the “bits,” especially ones that referenced fairly recent games, e.g., Fable 2. I’m rather pleased that the articles discussing game design eventually took over, though. Below is a list of my top 5 posts and the amount of individual hits each one received.

• What made those old, 2D platformers so great? (21, 048)
• A layman’s guide to projection in videogames. (6, 772)
• How I got art for my game, part 1. (6, 294)
• The 1-pixel collision box. (6, 252)
• The magic of secrets. (5, 710)

Top 5 individual referrers:

I get quite a bit of regular traffic from various sites, but these were the top sources for individual posts.

• Slashdot (9, 010)
• Reddit (3, 792)
• Plaza.fi (2, 203)
• Blue’s News (1, 132)
• StumbleUpon (1, 094)

Top 5 search engine terms:

To be completely honest, some variation of GTA takes up all of the top five spots in this category. Every day I get about 25 hits from these searches, but since listing “hot coffee” 5 times wouldn’t be as interesting, I’m including spots 6 through 9 as well.

• hot coffee mod (789)
• blazblue (282)
• escher (245)
• touhou (196)
• ink splatter (169)

Top 5 funniest and oddest search engine terms:

These aren’t nearly as common as the ones above, but they have made me pause and/or snicker every so often.

• real hot sex – Boy, someone must’ve been really disappointed! But aren’t there billions of sites that should show up before mine if you google that?
• cattle prods for sale – Once again, sorry to disappoint.
• hidden stairway next to royal mausoleum – This one’s just very specific, and it made think of someone planning an elaborate heist.
• cars attack video games – Everyone seems to have it out for videogames these days…
• renaissance paupers – Well, I do consider myself an authority on the subject, but this was still a little surprising.

Average daily traffic:

Over the span of 6 months, I’ve averaged 550 hits a day. This number is a bit skewed, though, as the traffic tends to spike up periodically. Basically I get 250-350 visits a day, and when I write a post that gets a lot of attention, I get a couple thousands hits over the span of 1-3 days.

Hopefully the next 6 months will be just as eventful.