Author Topic: PGN Doomed!! (Ok Not Really (Alexa Stats)) (Read 7757 times)

Ceric · « **on:** August 16, 2006, 01:47:02 PM »

PGC Alexa Stats
These are stats on the number of people who view PGC and the lack done by Alexa. I'm sure that PGC has better stats. If you notice the site has been on the decline. I'm not to surprised. Hopefully news will pick up and things will get better.

Interesting stat:
If you talked to a million people about 50 of them had been to PGC that day.

To put that in perspective:
If you talked to a million people about 3,300 of them had been to IGN that day.
3% of them would have visitted wii.ign.com
So if you talked to a million people about 99 of them went to Wii.ign.com that day.

The linked to is interesting too.

wandering · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2006, 01:52:10 PM »

Planet....Game News? OMG I think you may have discovered the name of the new site!

Oh, as for the decline, I'd guess that's because it's summer. I could find out whether or not that guess was true by spending a few minutes at that Alexa site, but I'm lazy.

edit: okay, looking over the statistics it isn't just because of summer. So now I blame Louie's departure. And also the fact that the site is still called 'planetgamecube.'

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2006, 02:29:06 PM »

It looks like PGC's popularity is directly related to the public's interest in the GameCube. At first every one was excitied but after they saw what a flop it was they stopped caring. Every now and then people became excited again but not for long. Now that nobody cares about Twilight Princess anymore the ratings have gone way down.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2006, 02:57:05 PM »

AHAHHAHAHAAHHHHAHA

stevey · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2006, 03:16:26 PM »

0 Luigi's Mansion! and Game Cube come out
1 Pikmin
2 SSBM
3?

? Soinic Adventure 2?
4 E3 02 + DVD!(I miss your DVD

)
5 Super Mario Sunshine + Blue Coin Guide
6 Metroid Prime
7 The legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
8 E3 04 + new Zelda? (I blam divx vids)
9 GCD (Reggie bomb droping)
10 We see the Revolution!!!
11 Wii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 Louie + shotgun = bye bye cat
13 today? odd it so high in summer???

It seem it preety much go with nintendo news but I odd that it's lower in 04 than 05? Their was a new Zelda, Paper Mario, and Metroid Prime 2 while in 05 their wasn't new game, (beside DK:JB) must have been the awsome daily mailbag keeping the site alive....

ShyGuy · « **Reply #5 on:** August 16, 2006, 04:31:13 PM »

Methinks now during the summer lulls would be a good time to do the name change.

BigJim · « **Reply #6 on:** August 16, 2006, 05:01:28 PM »

I think a good part of it had to do with Billy's departure too. They've done fine, but it wasn't the same since. That and GameCube's interest in general is in the gutter.

But it should be noted that Alexa can be very inaccurate. Stats are largely based on their toolbar hits (i.e. tracking spyware).

vudu · « **Reply #7 on:** August 16, 2006, 05:18:06 PM »

So you're saying the typical PGC'er is smarter than your average Internet user? Ad-Aware to the rescue!

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #8 on:** August 16, 2006, 07:14:19 PM »

interesting, although I don't know how accurate these are....

and stevey, your number 8 is around august, so that wasn't E304

and those reviews, a couple of them are hilarious!

IceCold · « **Reply #9 on:** August 16, 2006, 09:32:51 PM »

Heh, I posted the Alexa link for Endangered Gamer when he first posted the Red Steel scans. The popularity of that site shot up from basically zero for a week or two, and then went back to zero again

King of Twitch · « **Reply #10 on:** August 16, 2006, 10:49:58 PM »

So it tanked from 03 until Metroid Prime 2, Paper Mario TYD, or the DS release made it spike. FTW.

Wikipedia says Alexa partnered with the Open Directory Project of January 03 which is also the peak (but also around the midpoint of the cube's cycle). Don't feel like reading it all to find out what the ODP is.

"Users running any browser except Internet Explorer are not represented. Thus users of Firefox, Opera, Safari, mobile phone (WAP) browsers are all ignored." and "Users running spyware and adware prevention programs are under-represented or ignored."

Maybe Firefox's popularity and anti-spyware programs deflated PGC's numbers.

Artimus · « **Reply #11 on:** August 17, 2006, 02:31:54 AM »

I use Firefox! As do all sensible people

oohhboy · « **Reply #12 on:** August 17, 2006, 03:48:00 AM »

Nothing happened between 7 and 8?. Re4 didn't make a dent? DS launch?

I so shouldn't have invested in PGC stocks.

Berto2K · « **Reply #13 on:** August 17, 2006, 06:28:08 AM »

Ya, Alexa is waaaaaaaaaaaay far from being a good tracker. Vast majority of people don't use the alexa bar.

Billy is still listed as the contact info...oops!

Arbok · « **Reply #14 on:** August 17, 2006, 11:47:23 AM »

Out of curiosity, figured I would compare PGC with my site... and then was floored to see that we had actually passed them at one point in July (looks like a freak occurence of PGC hitting a low and TK hitting a high):

However, the gap before that point is pretty damn shameful...

Anyway, as others have mentioned, Alexa is not a very good source to get the exact vistor figures (comparing the data we have, ours is way off due to non-IE users). However, it is a decent way to compare sites' respective traffic against one another.

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Originally posted by: Berto2K
Billy is still listed as the contact info...oops!

That data is culled from the nameservers. The error is not Alexa's, but whoever is in charge of the Planetgamecube.com doman name and never updated that information.

Ceric · « **Reply #15 on:** August 17, 2006, 02:51:22 PM »

Yeah. As mentioned Alexa isn't the best way to get data of that sort. I would assume the PGC does tracking of its own or the Ad companies that provide are ads and could get a much better and more accurate number and representation. Part of the reason I posted this is in hope that they might mention something about those sort of stats. Also want the rename to be announced soon...

Arbok · « **Reply #16 on:** August 17, 2006, 03:10:51 PM »

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Originally posted by: Ceric
Also want the rename to be announced soon...

Yes, ideally, that name change should occur during the low point in visitation, so the site is all ready to go on the new domain name when its leading up to the Wii launch (which will cause a huge surge of traffic, one can be sure).

Ceric · « **Reply #17 on:** August 17, 2006, 04:12:33 PM »

You know I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or sincere on that one because I can read it easily either way. Oh well. I'll just assume you are sincere. Plus now that I think about it there is no reason the current Domain couldn't be used as a redirect till the end of the year.

Arbok · « **Reply #18 on:** August 17, 2006, 05:01:27 PM »

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Originally posted by: Ceric
You know I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or sincere on that one because I can read it easily either way. Oh well. I'll just assume you are sincere. Plus now that I think about it there is no reason the current Domain couldn't be used as a redirect till the end of the year.

Sincere. As a webmaster, it's ideal to shift the domain name as quickly as possible on larger sites if you are going to do it too, primarly due to the way Google spiders, and how they prioritize in what order results turn up.

18 Days · « **Reply #19 on:** August 17, 2006, 08:12:38 PM »

A board I admin at once made it into the rankings for a couple of days because LUELinks invaded cos another admin from our place ruined their UFO hoax.

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #20 on:** August 17, 2006, 09:06:20 PM »

Should have renamed it to Planet Wii right as the name was announced. Millions of cry babies would have flooded the board!

RickPowers · « **Reply #21 on:** August 24, 2006, 01:26:30 PM »

I'd like to think that our readers are too smart to have installed the Alexa toolbar crap.

Ceric · « **Reply #22 on:** August 26, 2006, 08:59:43 AM »

But Rick you have the power to set this all right. Give us the real scoop. See your title says so:

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RickPowers
IT Director
Senior Editor

Your Sig Says so:

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:: Rick Powers
:: IT Director, Senior Editor
:: Planet GameCube

The PEOPLE Say so.

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<Insert People Endorsment here>

TheYoungerPlumber · « **Reply #23 on:** August 27, 2006, 06:06:44 PM »

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Originally posted by: Ceric
But Rick you have the power to set this all right. Give us the real scoop. See your title says so:
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RickPowers
IT Director
Senior Editor

Your Sig Says so:
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:: Rick Powers
:: IT Director, Senior Editor
:: Planet GameCube

The PEOPLE Say so.
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<Insert People Endorsment here>

Oh dear, we'll have to do something about that....

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #24 on:** August 28, 2006, 08:50:33 PM »

oohhhh...that's why Rick's "IT Director" rank is scratched?

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Author Topic: PGN Doomed!! (Ok Not Really (Alexa Stats)) (Read 7757 times)