So another year has passed and it's time for another overview. Usually in the overview we take a bit of time to look back at the previous year and the accomplishments we have achieved as a community. We made some important changes this year such as removing the ad network. Unfortunately I didn't make any new major developments on the site but did however get a few games finished (which I'm happy about at least). However now's a good time to mention that I am working on a large update. Something very exciting for both players and developers. All I will say is, I hope you like collecting.
Other then this, I have been fairly hands off this year and letting the site do it's thing. So let's look over the numbers!
Unique Visitors - 345,089
Visitor Sessions - 517,404
Page Views - 5,643,207
Hits - 16,961,759
Members - 4,078
Games - 1,178
Tutorials - 37
Dev logs - 210
Total Game Play Time - 1287 days 7 hours 21 minutes and 35 seconds
Total Game Plays - 2,116,977
So, without even comparing numbers I can tell you it has been a very good year. However, we are going to compare to last years overview as we always do. The thing I first noticed is that we have double the amount of total gameplays which is huge! It took 7 years to get to 1 million, it took 1 to go to 2 million. So I think this is due to the removal of the ads network which has now made our platform maybe one of the friendliest for players which is really good and a huge positive. If we had any doubt this might be due to bots etc, it is good to see that the time playing games has more then doubled which backs this up quite well.
Across the board the numbers are great! Over 150 more games have been released, close to a 1000 new members and more posts (devlogs/tutorials) have been added too. So this confirms the end of the ad network has been positive. Also it looks like page views have not doubled but close to tripled! Just to top it off, 16 million hits this year opposed to last years 10 million is a big jump. One crazy statistic to also mention that December alone saw 3.7 million hits, 1.5 million page views and 41k unique users.
So as far as growth goes, this is likely the best year we've ever had. I've done zero advertising as well which is insane. This is a real setup for 2025 so I need to get this new development finished to add some more fun to the platform.
Happy new year all, let's make 2025 the best one yet!
Thanks,
-iDev
