Critical Hits 4th Blogiversary
Art by Jared von Hindman - Head Injury Theater
So yeah, we’ve been doing this for roughly 4 years now.
I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, but Danny and myself did want to send out a big thanks to all our readers. Our biggest joy of the year has to be our Ennie nomination for Best Website. Even though we didn’t win, we still greatly appreciate it, so thanks to the judges for nominating us and all you out there that voted for us. A close second was being complimented by Wil Wheaton on his blog, while rolling initiative against him via twitter. This was the same year when Tycho from Penny-Arcade told us he had read us as well. All in all, a pretty damn good year.
On to the stats!
Basic Stats
- Highest number of RSS feed subscribers: 1682
- Total Pageviews in the past year: 502,252
- Unique Visitors in the past year: 192,316
- Total number of posts: 1323
- Total number of comments: 9224
- Total number of different comment names: 1077
- Total spam blocked: 97,661
Top Content
- Skill Challenges Feature
- GenCon 4e Preview: The Assassin
- Dungeons & Dragons at New York Comic Con ’09
- Origins Awards 2009
- Avengers: Batman is a Divine Striker
- Warhammer 40k: 5th Edition Preview
- Hands-On: DDI Character Generator Beta
- GenCon 2009: 4e Extravaganza (with Photos)
- Mining the 4e “Eberron Player’s Guide”
- Review: “Advanced Player’s Guide”
Most Commented
Top Posts By Category
- RPG: GenCon 4e Preview: The Assassin
- Tabletop Games: Warhammer 40k: 5th Edition Preview
- Inq. of the Week: PHB2 Races!
- Podcast: Interview with Andy Collins and Bruce Cordell
- Television: Krod Mandoon: Comedy Central caters to the RPG crowd?
- Movies: The Contrary Opinion: J. J. Abram’s Star Trek (With Spoilers!)
- YouTube Tuesday: Stop Motion + 8 Bit = Win
- Video Games: Put the Phone Away: A call to the gamers still in the dark ages of handhelds (Part 1)
Top 5 Authors and 1 Robot By Post Count
- The Game (750)
- Bartoneus (296)
- Darth Cthulhu (47)
- The Main Event (41)
- Gato the News Robot (39)
- joshx0rfz (31)
Top 5 Commenters
- The Game (1,115)
- Bartoneus (1,038)
- Reverend Mike (459)
- TheMainEvent (365)
- joshx0rfz (308)
Top 5 Non-Author Commenters
- Reverend Mike (459)
- Graham (279)
- The Chatty DM (133)
- Abe (94)
- Tonester (73)
Top 5 Countries
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Germany
Top 5 US States
- California
- Texas
- New York
- Florida
- Washington
Worst State
- South Dakota (it shifted south this year)
Top 5 Referrers
Top Blog Referrers
Top Search Keywords out of 46,217
- Critical Hits
- Watchmen Babies
- D&D Character Builder
- Dungeon Delve
- Twilight Imperium Strategy
Bottom 2 Search Keywords
- “we’re all gonna die. the only question is how you check out. do you want go on your feet? or on your f-g knees… begging? well i ain’t much for begging! and nobody ever gave me nothing! so i say f- that thing! let’s fight it!”
- zaratan d&d info
Funniest Search Keywords
- horny animal preparing women for animal sex
- adults wii fit add sex to activity log
- andy collins pants
- how to use napkins during periods naked photos
- porn tattoo for old guys with poor eyesight (+18)
- how to host an orgy and what games to play
- gnome blowing orc
- f**king hate critical hits
Favorite Posts This Year As Chosen By Us
- The 5×5 Method
- I’ve Had Enough (for surprising us and punking our own April Fools plan)
- Guide to Gaming DVDs
- 10 Monsters I Use In Every D&D Campaign (And 5 I Don’t)
- Everyone Remembers Their First (DM)
- How a Wiki Can Excite Players
- The Rule of C4
- “Transitions and Transformations” RPG Blog Carnival Roundup
- Maverick Cake Hunter
- Product Tie-In Video Games 101: A Lesson in Love and Paychecks
Top Monster Riding Another Monster
That’s it! Thanks for reading.
Edited to add: They’re Using Tools made this awesome graphic to wish us a happy birthday!
TheGame is Dave Chalker, a lifelong gamer, freelance game designer, Master of Arts, and son of Jack L. Chalker. Dave is the Editor-in-Chief of Critical Hits and so runs the place. He is the envy of geeks everywhere because he's dating e, the Geek's Dream Girl. (Email Dave or follow him on Twitter).
Woohoo! What an awesome four years it has been, thanks to all of our readers, commenters, and contributors!
Congratulations!
.-= Thursday Bram´s last blog ..Prototyping a new game =-.
Classy and congrats!
Love the inclusion of the random search keywords. You guys are lucky. The weirdest one I’ve ever gotten doesn’t hold a candle to “Gnome Blowing Orcs”
:thumbs up:
Oh man, did I laugh at the keyword thing.
Happy blogiversary!
*scramble to own Google Analytics*
.-= Yax´s last blog ..Dungeon Mastering hiring artists and writers =-.
Happy 4th Anniversary! Great work guys.
4x Congratulations! Very well done.
.-= Saragon´s last blog ..A Gauntlet Thrown Down (Over Goblins), Part 1 =-.
damn, no category for biggest comment troll?! I would have dominated that Sh*T!
anyway, yeah trying to ruin you guys with my “f**king hate critical hits” search didnt work… ill get you and your little dog too!
but seriously… viva la CH!
I’m somewhat impressed with myself!
Add one to my total, and happy blogiversary!
.-= Graham´s last blog ..CriticalAnkleBites and ChattyDM pretend to be journalists =-.
Thanks everyone!
I think our personal favorite random search term of the moment is “andy collins pants”.
@Jared: I’m actually surprised you haven’t gotten worse searches than that, considering the content of your site.
@Steve: You’re the best comment troll evar!
Wow, 4 years already. Hard to believe. I’ll try and write more this year, I promise!
Happy 4th Bday, Critical Hits. I’ve always found your site a great source for interesting RPG topics and (as of late) 4ED pointers. Hope you all have an even more successful next year.
.-= Geek Ken´s last blog ..One page dungeon goodness with a helping of a module template =-.
Congrats guys. Well-deserved and I’m sure it will only grow.