I know I'm the only one that cares about blog stats, but I do love tracking stuff, not only the popular current posts, but also the older ones that still have traction.
**Disclaimer: Year over year, the bot traffic is evolving from hitting the front page of the blog, to finally hitting more and more individual posts. Like a lot of the blogs are mentioning, I had over three MILLION hits for the year, and most... are still the front page hits.**
2024-2025
My reviews of game stores like Lazarus Games, The Adventurer's Academy, IGAR, and Mythic Beasts and Brews dominate, plus my paint job on the Dollar General Mummies.
2023-2024
The Games Keep in West Chester and a random Space Dwarf Biker Gang Kickstarter pulled in the most traffic this past year. Games Keep definitely get bot traffic plus a healthy dose of defenders of the shop from my opinion.
2022-2023
The game store reviews continue to pull views for Sword in the Stone, Alchemist's Lair (Schuylkill Haven), with Dragon's Den in Honesdale getting a ton of traffic, with the sad little post about my divorce and losing a job rounding out the top picks.
2020-2022
International Gnome Week continues to gain traction based on my original post. The year with two Historicons (November '21 and July '22 technically).
I'm still not sure what bot or algorithm picked up on it, but a fairly mid rant about original Fluxx and Unstable Unicorns being the optimal version their games has garnered enough traffic to become my most popular post... of all time! The Navuoo Legion (aka The Mormons in the HMGS Gnome Wars games) remains popular, as well as a fluff piece about Gnomes and Fungus.
Finally, Fourteen Beers at Chili's from my Call of Cthulhu "Curse of Nevoz" game, and a surprising blast from the past "My Paint Scheme for My Marines" seemed to draw in views organically.
2009-2019
These older posts reinforce what I see year-over-year: Reviews seem to keep things alive. I also saw a huge uptick in my Ballad of the Pigeon God AD&D campaign, as well as my run of Masks of Nylarathotep. I was also amsued to find that my main posting about Samoan Riflemen for my Second Samoan Civil War game cracked the Top 20 in its year.
The biggest gains in this era were for my Texas Roadhouse Massacre Risus-Illuminati University (IOU) game. This actual play netted the #3 all-time spot, just beating out the Games Keep.
My Top 10 Popular Posts of the Past Year, Beyond the Last Year
- Fluxx and Unicorns - Rant
- (Risus) Texas Roadhouse Massacre - IOU
- Hellboy Board Game - Kickstarter
- The Games Keep, West Chester - Reviews - 2024
- Dragon's Den Games, Honesdale - Reviews
- Tales from the Loop: The Board Game - Kickstarter
- Gnome Wars, 2nd Edition - Reviews
- Gnome Vs Dragon Lawn Ornaments - Gnome News
- Space Dwarf Biker Gang 2 - Kickstarter
- Miniature Building Authority Castle Ex - Kickstarter
My Top 10 Popular Posts of All Time
- Fluxx and Unicorns - Rant
- Hunting for Wizard of Oz Minis - Wizard of Oz
- (Risus) Texas Roadhouse Massacre - IOU
- (Review) The Games Keep - West Chester - Reviews
- (Kickstarter) Hellboy: The Board Game Expansions - Kickstarter
- Contemptible Little Armies Review - Reviews
- Settlers of Catan 15th Anniversary Edition - Retail
- Wardlings, Toy Aliens, and Post-Gymnastics Universe - Rant
- Eureka Minis Release Mice Warriors - Mouslings
- (Kickstarter) Tales from the Loop: The Board Game - Kickstarter
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