The 10k Extravaganza -- Hell, its about time.

This blog had its start as a simple experiment. A test of how large a blog could grow without any ads or discussion backing it. Just a simple blog, nothing fancy. How far could it reach?

Sure, we're still no Perez Hilton, but it was never meant to be that way. To this day the blog beats out The Codex of Aegis in daily views, and although it may have about a year's head start, its still impressive for a blog that for the most part has been put in the shadows behind its younger, prophetic brother.

Originally the play was to drop the blog after Codex of Aegis was released, but by that time it had already accumulated 6 thousand views and I figured it would be a horrible waste to throw it all away. So, though I stopped posting on it daily, I continued to update it once and a while. Sometimes its a little frustrating that the blog is so much more highly regarded in internet terms than the main site, but by now I've come to accept its place in the world wide web. But enough of the introduction -- the hour of festivities is at hand.

A battle of two towers

Before we get into Astuka's Blog specific achievements, let's talk about the two heavyweights: Codex of Aegis and Astuka's Blog.

I have plenty of other places on the internet: AstukaGaming is where we have biweekly podcasts, and it has its own steam group. My tumblr is filled with non-gaming stuff, mostly in the music world, and I have other shadow projects and experiments that shall remain unknown. However, not even the highest of these can compete with these two giants. 

Total Views

Codex of Aegis - 1,886 views

Astuka's Blog - 10,000 views

Average Monthly Views

Codex of Aegis - 188.1 views

Astuka's Blog - 666.7 views

A more detailed view

Its clear that Astuka's Blog has quite the lead on CoA, and although the two may still be increasing at a steady rate, let's continue with a more closer overview on Astuka's Blog in particular.

Top 5 most viewed posts

1."Meeting God" by Anonymous - 1,860

From what I've seen, the original copy of this story has since been taken down, and if you do search "Meeting God" or any sort of combination of that into Google, this blog is the first thing that's come up. I've thought about deleting it a lot, mostly because its really overshadowing everything that I've actually done, but I've figured the viewcount hit would be way too much to recover from. Still, there is hope for an original article to one day overtake this pile of copied garbage.

2. Meet the GTA V characters... in real life - 330

Back when GTA V was still in its craze stages, and I was still into it, I made a lot of articles around the same time about the game. Now that hype has gone down, but one article in particular stands atop all of the others -- the GTA V real life counterparts, all of which are actually all coincidences and have no proof to back them up. Sorry kids, Christmas isn't coming this year.

3. The Quinnspiracy, also known as generic internet drama - 210

The first original piece of legitimate content comes at (no surprise) 3 on this list. The first part in the trifecta that is the GamerGate Trilogy, it details some of the very first events of the happening, despite stating it's near the end. 

4. GUYS I THINK I JUST FIGURED OUT P.T - 162

I'm happy this is in the top 5, mostly because in a midnight haze this theory made perfect since to me. Months later it still holds promise, but I suppose we'll have to keep waiting until when it drops to find out the truth.

5. Splatoon HYPE! - 133

Oh, thank god. More non-content. You know, I was started to feel worried for a second. In case your wondering what it is, it's a bunch of unformatted fan art of Splatoon. Why.

The demographics

Top 5 pageviews by Country

1. United States - 8,008

2. France - 151

3. United Kingdom - 149

4. Canada - 124

5. Germany - 119

No surprise here -- all of the content is in English exclusively (because besides kindergarten levels of Spanish, that's all I know) so it makes sense for 3 of the top 5 countries to be English speaking countries while the other 2 have a large amount of people who tend to speak English as well.

Top 5 pageviews by Browser

1. Chrome - 6,529

2. Firefox - 1,132

3. Internet Explorer - 927

4. Safari - 845

5. Opera - 274

Disregarding the 6,529 views that are mine, this seems to be just like a "Top 5 most used browsers" list. Though shoutouts to the last place browser, CriOS, for its badass name (though looks like its just short for Chrome for iOS. Lame.)

Top 5 pageviews by Operating Systems

1. Linux - 4,478

2. Windows - 3,505

3. Macintosh - 738

4. iPhone - 591

5. Android - 418

This statistic was always interesting -- I always figured the mass amount of Linux users was due to the blog formerly being a self proclaimed programming blog, but now that those days are over and the stat is still high up, its interesting.

The Future

It's safe to say that this blog will continue for quite some time, as well as its safe to say that another one of these updates won't be for awhile (at 25,000? 100,000?) so fortunately you won't have to worry about me spouting out boring site statistics for another few years. Well, better get back to making stuff.

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