CC Traffic Statistics

[sully800]

I was searching through http://www.alexa.com which gives a lot of interesting data on traffic and page views that any prominant site receives. They also display some cool graphs which I will share (much to the pleasure of miss Robinette)

One of the main features with their traffic rankings allows you to compare multiple sites at once, so I did this with CC and a few of it's rivals (WaW, landgrab, and dominate game).

Looking at a very broad perspective (5 year range) you will notice that dominate game was easily the most popular risk site a few years ago. Shortly after that WaW took over the market. Then recently, conquer club has been expanding and is currently receiving the most hits per million. CC was only established at the beginning of 2006, so you can see how quickly it rose to the top on this graph.



Looking at a shorter time interval (3 month range) you can see that as recently as September CC was still intermingled with the other top risk variant sites. However during October and November we pulled ahead into a larger portion of the market, and now we are clearly on top.



I say let's keep it that way! Let's keep contributing positively to this community and help the site to improve and grow during its second year of existance. With the improvements and additions lack has in store I see no reason why CC should cease to be the most popular risk site around.

[sully800]

Well, one site I forget to compare was grand strategy, because I didn't know the URL for that site (http://www.denizengames.com) They were actually above CC until very recently by a decent amount, and we have been ahead for such a short amount of time that it might not last. However they also have chess and possibly other games on that site which probably generate additional traffic

[Pedronicus]

was there a noticable drop in hits, after Steve Griffiths got booted off the site?

[Stopper]

at last comment.

I think this site will naturally rise just because of the game's basic playability, compared with the others, for which praise presumably comes down to lackattack as I understand it. I just wonder about advertisement - I just found it through a Wikipedia page on Risk - and I don't think Wikipedia carries Risk sites anymore...

[gavin_sidhu]

i too found CC on wikipedia, they got rid of it saying that Wikipedia is not an advertisement service, pity that.

Sully, for the first graph why is your y-scale so massive?

[sully800]

I found CC through Wiki as well.

As for the scale of the graphs, I didn't create them...it was the default from alexa.com. Compared to many sites, CC and any other risk variant site is small peanuts so this was the scale that we fit on. Notice that our high point is around 20 hits/mil. Meaning, of every 1 million people surfing the web, 20 will come to conquer club.

Google on the other hand hovers just below 300,000 hits/mil retaining the #2 spot for quite some time now (behind yahoo, but I'm a google supporter). If you're interested, google steadily increased to yahoo's level until the beginning of 2006, and now they have been roughly the same ever since.

I don't know if there is any way to adjust the y-scale on a given graph, but I couldn't find it, so I just copied the default.

[Robinette]

sully, once again you've made me very happy...

PS- I'm a googler also!

[gavin_sidhu]

yahoo? who uses yahoo? Must be an american thing... Personalised Google is my homepage, although most ppl in australia have there homepage set to either ninemsn (telivision chanel 9). Yahoo Australia has teamed up with channel 7 for more hits, but Yahoo is rly shit.

[reverend_kyle]

Mods wont let you post lemonparty because they are jealous more people view that than cc.

[Twill]

I'd consider not visiting lemonparty.org...especially if your boss doesnt like you looking at gay porn

I'm not sure which would be worse, admiting I was stupid enough to actually visit the link, or leaving people to assume that I visit it regularly, like rev does

[reverend_kyle]

haha, I was shocked at the daily traffic it pulls in per day.



I guess its all the referral business I give them by tricking you fools.

[sully800]

Congrats to CC for pulling even further ahead of all the 'pretender' risk variants out there.




Clearly no other site can hold a candle to conquer club right now (unless there is some other site I am missing...)

[AAFitz]

the dominate game seems cool, unless its just another risk derivative...

[hwhrhett]

the dominate game seems cool, unless its just another risk derivative...

i liked dominategame, but it was 100% realtime, which kinda sucks because for a good game, you can be playin fer hours, oh yeah, and beware the time limit, you will lose alot before you get the hang of it.

[Marvaddin]

Hmmmm.... interesting... very interesting.
WaW is definetely dead
Landgrab has some clicks just when kyle go play a rt and spam in their forums

But Im not surprised: CC community is growing fast these days, isnt it?

[sashab]

How do you guys rank them?

I'm thinking:

1. CC - obviously

2. Grand Strategy - neat maps and 2 player option. they have some CC maps too?

3. LB - lots of options

4. WaW - Dead

5. DominateGame - have to pay for web version?

Hmmmm.... interesting... very interesting.
WaW is definetely dead
Landgrab has some clicks just when kyle go play a rt and spam in their forums

But Im not surprised: CC community is growing fast these days, isnt it?

[Sir Titus]

I got this little taskbar add-on called SearchStatus on my computer (helps with my work) and it lets you know how popular the website you are currently browsing is (at a glance). For example, go to Yahoo and it's number 1 (so Yahoo is the most viewed website in the world). Google is number 3 by the way (but much better than Yahoo in my opinion).

I bring this up because I have been looking at how steadily CC ranking has been rising since I joined (in late October). When I joined CC was ranked somewhere around the 95,000th most popular website in the world. It's gotten much better and I think it's somewhere around 53,000 now (I'm not a home to check so I'm not 100% sure). 53,000th most viewed website in the world might not seem too impressive but that's actually quite good. I think there are around 7 million websites in the world.

Just an indication of how popular CC is and it's becoming more and more popular.

[kjtocool]

I got this little taskbar add-on called SearchStatus on my computer (helps with my work) and it lets you know how popular the website you are currently browsing is (at a glance). For example, go to Yahoo and it's number 1 (so Yahoo is the most viewed website in the world). Google is number 3 by the way (but much better than Yahoo in my opinion).

I bring this up because I have been looking at how steadily CC ranking has been rising since I joined (in late October). When I joined CC was ranked somewhere around the 95,000th most popular website in the world. It's gotten much better and I think it's somewhere around 53,000 now (I'm not a home to check so I'm not 100% sure). 53,000th most viewed website in the world might not seem too impressive but that's actually quite good. I think there are around 7 million websites in the world.

Just an indication of how popular CC is and it's becoming more and more popular.

It's actually at 15,767 on average for this week. 43,927 on average over the past 3 months.

[Sir Titus]

Ahh. I must have remembered 43 as 53. And I guess the SearchStatus tool uses a 3 month average as you said.

Thanks for that, kjyocool.

[reverend_kyle]

Hmmmm.... interesting... very interesting.
WaW is definetely dead
Landgrab has some clicks just when kyle go play a rt and spam in their forums

But Im not surprised: CC community is growing fast these days, isnt it?

I dont get what you mean by landgrab has some clicks just when kyle go play art and spam their forums.. but i'd rank them

1. CC
2. Landgrab


and the rest suck


Landgrab used to be ALOT cooler, then they changed everything up and it's just not the same..

[sashab]

i'm pretty much a noob at all the sites. but why do you say LandGrab and Grand Strategy suck?

They both seem to have more things than CC does. i found you can use leaders and fortresses at LandGrab. you can alos place your troops at the first turn on Grand Strategy.

LG seems pretty slow. GS too but not that bad.

Hmmmm.... interesting... very interesting.
WaW is definetely dead
Landgrab has some clicks just when kyle go play a rt and spam in their forums

But Im not surprised: CC community is growing fast these days, isnt it?

I dont get what you mean by landgrab has some clicks just when kyle go play art and spam their forums.. but i'd rank them

1. CC
2. Landgrab


and the rest suck


Landgrab used to be ALOT cooler, then they changed everything up and it's just not the same..

[tals]

I tried Landgrab out and whilst some of the stuff was quite neat - the realtime did work better. The rest was pretty bad:

map design was poor
web page structure very messy
scoring a joke
messaging bad

Lack does strive for a clean web design and he has pretty much achieved it. Good work but would still like to see it improve ala the todo list

Tals

[sashab]

woh, I just saw a couple maps at grand strategy that i swear were ripped straight from axis and allies!

too bad they are only for premium ppl, but they make the CC maps look like kiddy toys.

I tried Landgrab out and whilst some of the stuff was quite neat - the realtime did work better. The rest was pretty bad:

map design was poor
web page structure very messy
scoring a joke
messaging bad

Lack does strive for a clean web design and he has pretty much achieved it. Good work but would still like to see it improve ala the todo list

Tals

[qeee1]

I dislike the way grand strategy basically copied conquer club's market position, (ie. an accesible risk variant, with good user interface) and then came onto CC forums saying look, we will be better than CC join our site.

[AndyDufresne]

We also disliked that.

Regarding improvements here...we've got some great things in the works for 2007...


--Andy