STATE OF THE MAKER: HOW WE'RE DOING.

I just wanted to let everyone know how rpgmaker.net is doing from some popular objective statistical measures. This is meant to complement the database stats that kentona releases every month. These site statistics are less personal but I find them interesting nonetheless. All numbers and statistics are derived from Google Analytics and are from January 1st through May 31st of this year unless otherwise noted.

- Site visits from 01/01/2011 through 05/31/2011 are up 34.53% from the same time period the previous year. Google analytics defines a site visit as “the number of individual sessions initiated by all the visitors to your site.” If you exclude the month of January (in which there was a 13% decrease), site visits are up 45% this year.

- Absolute unique visitors is up 55.06% year to date vs. last year. This category has exploded since late February (meaning a greater variety of users are visiting the site).

- Page views continue to average over 1,000,000 a month. Again, January was an outlier with only 743,000. I guess featuring Legendary Legend in December scared some folks away. :)

- The forum page views are way down for most forums (30% in some cases), but this is misleading as many of the forums were deleted. The ones that survived the merger saw increases. Page views to the main site have increased by about the same 30%, however.

- The mailbox is the second most viewed page on the site after the main page!

- The most popular games by page views:
1. Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer 13,237
2. Forever’s End 10,363
3. Legionwood: Tale Of The Two Swords 9,884
4. Alter A.I.L.A. Genesis 9,186
5. Leo and Leah 9,151
6. Hero’s Realm 7,973
7. Vacant Sky Vol. 1: Contention 7,160
8. Breath of Fire II: The Fated Child (XP) 6,179
9. Rework the Dead: Evil 6,378
10. RPG Maker 20XX Engine 6,156

- 51.37% of users are referred here by search engine queries. 18.61% are referred here by other sites. 30.01% of users come here directly. This can be attributed to our search engine rank which is pretty high for most rpg maker related terms.

- Browser rank breakdown by percentage of users:
1. Firefox 47.17%
2. Chrome 26.27%
3. Internet Explorer 17.73%
4. Opera 4.81% (this is just me and kentona)
5. Safari 3.37%
6. Other 0.35%

- Operating system rank breakdown by percentage of users:
1. Windows 93.68% (Windows 7 45.89%, Windows XP 34.65%, Windows Vista 19.05%, Other 0.41%)
2. Macintosh 3.41%
3. Linux 1.04%
4. Other 1.87%

- May was the best month ever for rpgmaker.net ad revenue, nearly doubling its monthly average. Combined with user subscriptions, rpgmaker.net now is entirely self-sufficient. Thanks to all of you who helped make that happen!

author=Illustrious
Page views continue to average over 1,000,000 a month year.

How long is a month year? I know this answer can be obtained from dividing by zero somewhere.

Fixed. :)