Friday, January 3, 2020

Updates and Milestones: January 3, 2020

Just a few quick notes I wanted to make. I'm still here keeping an eye on things. At some point I would like to make more content for the blog-- on my agenda in particular are a first-edition version of the Numenera character creator and the final installment of the two-make-three Scrabble words guide. Those are fairly low-hanging fruit and should be doable when I have some time.

Blog Milestones: December was another big month for the blog with 1716 page views, just edging out November's record of 1701. And as far as looking back at the year overall, Blogger doesn't keep yearly stats, but luckily I did do an update post last January. According to last-year me, Troy Stories passed the 4,000 all-time page views mark on January 7th of last year. (Important to note that that is cumulative all-time views, not just views for 2018-- the 4000 figure includes at least several hundred views from 2014-2017.) This year? The blog passed the 17,000 all-time page views mark yesterday (January 2), meaning the site had ~13,000 views in 2019 (after subtracting the 4,000 pre-2019 views from the total all-time views), on average more than a thousand a month. Any year in which a site more than triples its traffic is a good year, I would say.

And of course, needless to say, most of that traffic went to the Numenera 2 character creator, and second place is awarded to the old (i.e., first-edition) Cypher System character creator. No other page on the site came close to the numbers for those two pages. Since Blogger doesn't keep yearly stats I am not 100% sure whom to award the bronze medal to, but I believe the Numenera printer-friendly character sheets index did better on the year overall, even though the brand new second edition Cypher System character creator did much better for the month of December. And as far as the next tier down is concerned, the only other pages with more than a handful of hits for the year were the poem A Ruinman's Villanelle, aka "Come Home Ere Falls the Night," and the City of Heroes Monitor Window tip, interestingly. The latter two posts both had a bit over a hundred views each on the year, much more than is typical for one of my regular blog posts, which don't normally even hit double digits, let alone triple.

Anyway, that's all for now. Happy New Year, everyone.