{"id":2555,"date":"2010-08-01T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2010-08-01T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T17:00:47","slug":"traffic-analysis-january-to-july-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/01\/traffic-analysis-january-to-july-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Analysis January to July 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am obsessed with my site stats &#8211; probably the baseball fan inside me. I track my traffic, look for patterns, try to understand why it comes (posts) and goes (lack of posts) and why some pages blow up big at certain times.<\/p>\n<p>For 2010 thus far, the top ten searches that bring people to Flash of Steel are:<\/p>\n<p>1. Civilization 5 or Civ 5<br \/>\n2. Flash of Steel (multiple spellings)<br \/>\n3. Three Moves Ahead (multiple spellings)<br \/>\n4. Troy Goodfellow (sometimes with the middle initial S)<br \/>\n5. Best Strategy Game(s)<br \/>\n6. hotu<br \/>\n7. Settlers 7 Preview<br \/>\n8. Tom vs Bruce (multiple spellings)<br \/>\n9. Chick Parabola<br \/>\n10. Hannibal Demo<\/p>\n<p>The Civ 5 searches are by far the biggest, probably because I (for once) followed search engine optimization rules and didn&#8217;t use the Roman numeral for a post simply titled &#8220;Civilization 5&#8221;. That post ends up in the top three or four results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chick Parabola&#8221; surprises me because I can&#8217;t believe people are looking for it. It&#8217;s something we made up in an early episode of Three Moves Ahead. Glad people find it useful.<\/p>\n<p>The only content page that beats my Civ 5 post in was <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/24\/a-tale-of-two-boxes\/\">a stupid throwaway post comparing box art for Settlers 7.<\/a> That got linked everywhere, and made Reddit the number one referring site for the blog. After the announcement of the new Civ box art, that Settler post has found new life via the Civ Fanatics forum. In fact, that post was so popular that in the month I wrote it I ended up exceeding my traffic limit for my host.<\/p>\n<p>The top referring sites were:<\/p>\n<p>1. Reddit<br \/>\n2. Google<br \/>\n3. Quarter to Three<br \/>\n4. Rock, Paper, Shotgun<br \/>\n5. Twitter<br \/>\n6. The TMA Libsyn page<br \/>\n7. Matrix Games<br \/>\n8. Rob Zacny&#8217;s blog<br \/>\n9. Tacticular Cancer<br \/>\n10. Gamers with Jobs<\/p>\n<ul>So who are you guys?<\/ul>\n<p>Half of you use Firefox. You are overwhelmingly American, with three English speaking countries following (Canada, UK, Australia). 159 different countries visited FoS, few for very long. There is a lot of interest in Alpha Centauri, and people tend to stick around once they start reading one my feature series. (New one coming while I wait for Bruce to make progress on his decade article.)<\/p>\n<p>Later this week, Three Moves Ahead 75 episodes in &#8211; more stats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am obsessed with my site stats &#8211; probably the baseball fan inside me. I track my traffic, look for patterns, try to understand why it comes (posts) and goes (lack of posts) and why some pages blow up big at certain times. 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