Just the other day i remembered that a while ago I created a basic hit counter for our site. On inspection it needs a few improvements, for example to count unique as well as overall hits. Also it started counting a couple of years ago, and there’s no breakdown by month or anything, so any items more recent will of course be penalised. With all that in mind, I don’t think it’s worth over-analysing the numbers.
However here’s one interesting point, by far the two most visited reviews are Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 and Final Fantasy VII.
The latter I can sort of understand, it’s a pretty huge name in gaming. Even if we only ever get a tiny fraction of the traffic roaming around the internet looking for it,bthat probably adds up to a lot of hits? Then again Deus Ex or Half Life are also big names, and they’re *way* behind. (like, less than a quarter the total hits)
Final Liberation tho.. are we picking up lots of stray hits from general games workshop fans? Or i wonder if information is just scarce enough that fans of the videogame itself can’t find much else.
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Some of those numbers are depressingly low – why does no-one want to read about International Cricket Captain 2, goddammit?
I think people who Google ‘Half Life’ could search for several thousand years before finding our review, but Final Liberation might come up in the first few pages.
My Dad had a problem getting Pinball Illusions to save his high scores and happened upon FFG quite quickly upon googling (couldn’t help with the problem though).
May 18, 2009 @ 3:04 pm
Hmm, we’re on the 4th page of google for Pinball Illusions!
To be honest I’ve never really counted on people finding us by google searches for game titles. Like you say for some games there will be bajillions of sites ahead of us.
So I’m kinda pleased we turn up near the top for a few games, even if just obscure ones.
May 19, 2009 @ 10:14 am