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Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 10-26-2002, 01:22 PM:
 
Yeah, not really, but people tend to say that from time to time, so I thought I'd give you guys a little perspective...

Here are numbers for individual visits to the site (which are estimates, but the method is constant):

August 2000: 21,039
August 2001: 22,859
August 2002: 22,180

September 2000: 21,953
September 2001: 17,774
September 2002: 17,259

(That includes the forum.)

So, anyway...no real trends, except that things are remaining surprisingly constant.

Random stats for this month from the real site:

133 people have checked out the Wigglytuff page.
The Mewtwo page is the most popular non-index page on the site (485 hits).
329 people were disappointed to find out that there's still nothing new on the What's New? page.
The most popular index pages are the Pokedex ones that sort by type. Pity we never finished them.
The most popular attack this month is Hyper Beam (104 hits).
Least popular Pokemon: Machoke (74 hits).

Since I never really considered the forum to be very important, I'm gratified that people are still getting great use out of the real site.

Anyway, just thought some of you freaks might be interested...
 
Posted by IceHawk78 (Member # 1699) on 10-26-2002, 01:37 PM:
 
*blinks*
Are those hits including people that are just visiting the main site page and going directly to the forums? 'cause if it isn't, then I'd be damned surprised that you got that many hits on an page that is information on a game that is what, like 3-4 years old (?). I'd really be interested to see the stats on the forums in general compared to those, and then a breakdown of view to each of the different boards.
 
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 10-26-2002, 01:54 PM:
 
IceHawk78: Are those hits including people that are just visiting the main site page and going directly to the forums?

Yeah. I think the other numbers show that the majority of the traffic is going straight to the forum. Plus, if you log on in the morning, and then again later in the day from another machine, or with a different IP, that's definitely more than one "visit". If you come back after a certain amount of time passes, that's another "visit". It's web log scanning software, so it doesn't pay attention to forum usernames.

I'd really be interested to see the stats on the forums in general compared to those, and then a breakdown of view to each of the different boards.

I don't have any stats like that. I never cared much about the forum, so I never got the thing to record specific data with regards to it. It doesn't record what's going on with regards to individual forum page views, it just records the tally.
 
Posted by Mewone (Member # 1694) on 10-26-2002, 03:29 PM:
 
When you visit those pages sorted by types (like you said), some of them have movesets that were picked to be standard for each Pokémon. If those did get finished, they would be really helpful for moveset ideas.
 
Posted by Donald (Member # 1551) on 10-26-2002, 04:39 PM:
 
Does it tell how many people entered 666 in the Pokedex?
 
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 10-26-2002, 04:52 PM:
 
Mewone: If those did get finished, they would be really helpful for moveset ideas.

I agree.

Don: Does it tell how many people entered 666 in the Pokedex?

Only one this month, as of this morning.
 
Posted by Mewone (Member # 1694) on 10-26-2002, 09:14 PM:
 
Make that two.
 
Posted by Donald (Member # 1551) on 10-26-2002, 10:20 PM:
 
Three.
 
Posted by Ikuse (Member # 3037) on 10-26-2002, 11:13 PM:
 
Six hundred and sixty six.
 
Posted by Face (Member # 1916) on 10-28-2002, 12:15 PM:
 
It might be time to shut down this site.
 
Posted by Rei the Giant Koffing (Member # 1909) on 01-10-2004, 03:05 AM:
 
No, I think it's just everyone else...BAN EVERYONE, MAKE REI ADMIN AND EVERYONE BE HAPPY LITTLE BIT LONGER.

no...?

[Trash Bear]

-Rei
 
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 01-10-2004, 06:18 PM:
 
August 2000: 21,039
August 2001: 22,859
August 2002: 22,180
August 2003: 19,770

September 2000: 21,953
September 2001: 17,774
September 2002: 17,259
September 2003: 15,432

Hmm. I thought the numbers would be lower than that.

Since the beginning of the year, 71 people have looked at the Wigglytuff page. 172 have checked out Mewtwo.

Blizzard is the most popular attack in 2004 (54 hits).

Least popular Pokemon: Wartortle, with just 32 hits.

Tick-tock, tick-tock...
 
Posted by Land und Leute (Member # 1040) on 01-10-2004, 06:21 PM:
 
[Frown]
 
Posted by cfalcon (Member # 19) on 01-11-2004, 01:37 AM:
 
He creates a thing, then sees that it is finite, and assumes it is already dead.

One should not live in that way.
 
Posted by Rolken (Member # 7) on 01-11-2004, 02:20 PM:
 
OH NO AZURE IS DYING
 
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 01-11-2004, 03:38 PM:
 
cfalcon:He creates a thing, then sees that it is finite, and assumes it is already dead.

Are you reading some other thread?
 
Posted by EspeonNidoking (Member # 2028) on 01-11-2004, 04:02 PM:
 
still alive nice
 
Posted by cfalcon (Member # 19) on 01-11-2004, 06:25 PM:
 
Are you reading some other thread?

No, I'm pretty sure
Tick-tock, tick-tock...
was in this thread.
 
Posted by Mr.E (Member # 696) on 01-12-2004, 03:37 AM:
 
Why does the [Frown] smilie looks so... sad.? [Frown]
 
Posted by Dark_Herakurosu (Member # 1677) on 01-12-2004, 07:04 AM:
 
Try selecting the [Smile] graemlin. It's a sunliminal message!

(Drink Coke)
 
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 01-12-2004, 11:22 PM:
 
hay cflaccin is anglish ur 1st langauge cuz mabye u shud stop postin hear cuz u r embarrssin urself
 
Posted by Rolken (Member # 7) on 10-08-2004, 01:18 AM:
 
It's that time again...
 
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 10-08-2004, 03:39 AM:
 
Well, OK.

August 2000: 21,039
August 2001: 22,859
August 2002: 22,180
August 2003: 19,770
August 2004: 18,680

September 2000: 21,953
September 2001: 17,774
September 2002: 17,259
September 2003: 15,432
September 2004: 15,868

Weird, huh? I guess a lot of people still use the data.

During the first week of October, 68 people have looked at the Wigglytuff page. 190 have checked out Mewtwo. Charizard and Alakazam both have over 200.

Flamethrower is the most popular attack this month (41 hits).

Least popular Pokemon: Venonat, with 45 hits.

There is a season, turn, turn, turn...

EDIT: Oh yeah, and only one person has checked out the 666 page during the first week of October.

[ 10-08-2004, 03:41 AM: Message edited by: Mr. K ]
 
Posted by MewtwoSama (Member # 12) on 10-10-2004, 02:06 AM:
 
quote:
Originally posted by Rolken:
OH NO AZURE IS DYING

 
Posted by TeeJay (Member # 265) on 10-13-2004, 11:39 AM:
 
Bring back 1999 so we can party like its 1999

[ 10-13-2004, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: TeeJay ]
 
Posted by MK (Member # 1445) on 10-13-2004, 02:50 PM:
 
I don't mind... as long as I get back in time...
 
Posted by Dark_Herakurosu (Member # 1677) on 10-14-2004, 02:38 AM:
 
NO! I have to get back! ....TO THE FUTURE! MARTYYYYY!
 
Posted by Mr.E (Member # 696) on 10-15-2004, 12:20 AM:
 
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
 
Posted by moogleman (Member # 1017) on 10-15-2004, 05:07 AM:
 
Oh you outta time, baby!
 
Posted by Dragonite21 (Member # 475) on 10-16-2005, 01:29 PM:
 
quote:
Originally posted by Rolken:
It's that time again...

 
Posted by Land und Leute (Member # 1040) on 10-18-2005, 08:36 PM:
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dragonite21:
quote:
Originally posted by Rolken:
It's that time again...
Time to get our rabies shots?

Time to make bubbles with our spit?
 
Posted by Mewone (Member # 1694) on 10-23-2005, 03:22 AM:
 
Can you make bubbles with vomit?
 
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 10-23-2005, 05:22 AM:
 
August 2000: 21,039
August 2001: 22,859
August 2002: 22,180
August 2003: 19,770
August 2004: 18,680
August 2005: 24,723

September 2000: 21,953
September 2001: 17,774
September 2002: 17,259
September 2003: 15,432
September 2004: 15,868
September 2005: 19,942

I cannot explain this. Maybe someone has linked to our images and is using them in their sig or something.

EDIT: Maybe Google and other spiders are crawling the page 20 times a day?

Also 11 people have checked out the 666 page this month.

Semi-interestingly 1337 have visited the Stat Mods page this month (far and away the highest attack-based total).

Most popular attacks: Hyper-Beam (216), Body Slam (186)
Most popular species: Mewtwo (1139), Charizard (1041)

Wigglytuff has 366 hits. Koffing has 325.

Least popular attacks: Struggle (21), Super Fang (26), Comet Punch (29)
Least popular species: Grimer (290), Poliwag (291), Magnemite (300)

509 people found out there is still nothing new.

[ 10-23-2005, 12:55 PM: Message edited by: Mr. K ]
 
Posted by cogito (Member # 3809) on 10-27-2005, 02:56 PM:
 
I think it's actually just that this is exactly the time when people who had quit Pokemon years ago are beginning to feel nostalgia for it. That's why I found Azure. I quit around the time that Gold and Silver came out. When my friend bought a Gameboy with "Pokemon Red" I got pumped up for some oldschool battles. But I had long since sold my "Pokemon Red" to a neighbor, and I wasn't about to buy another one. So I did the next best thing: borrowed Stadium from another friend and played it (with the pathetic "rental" pokemon) until our eyes started to bleed. I tried playing the 1Player part, but I couldn't beat the higher level using rentals, so I started looking online for either
1) a Transfer Pak with R/B/Y for under 5 bucks
or
2) Some strategy I hadn't considered that would allow me to beat Stadium using only rentals
What I found was Azure Heights. I imagine a large number of those hits from this year are people in similar situations.
 
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 10-27-2005, 07:33 PM:
 
Is all this old data at all helpful when playing the new games?
 
Posted by CHaRiZaRd (Member # 994) on 10-28-2005, 01:32 AM:
 
To be perfectly honest, not really.

However, RBY is still played by many people, and consensus is it's easiest to learn while still being fun. In terms of numerical data, attack data, and some Pokemon type-analysis data, Azure is still very useful to newcomers.

A big chunk of the info is dated what with changing battle tactics and metagame changes, but fact is Azure was pretty much THE first place to do what it did for Pokemon, and it's still a good place to send people who want to learn pokemon from the beginning. It's ridiculously extensive, and very well structured.

[ 10-28-2005, 01:33 AM: Message edited by: CHaRiZaRd ]
 
Posted by Dragonite21 (Member # 475) on 10-16-2006, 12:37 PM:
 
16th October bump
 
Posted by Kobayashi (Member # 313) on 10-28-2006, 07:04 AM:
 
Interesting trends.
 
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 11-03-2006, 12:18 AM:
 
August 2000: 21,039
August 2001: 22,859
August 2002: 22,180
August 2003: 19,770
August 2004: 18,680
August 2005: 24,723
August 2006: 32,754

September 2000: 21,953
September 2001: 17,774
September 2002: 17,259
September 2003: 15,432
September 2004: 15,868
September 2005: 19,942
September 2006: 31,598

Really makes no friggin' sense. Did they just get Pokemon in China or something?

All the records for Most Hits and Most Bytes Transferred are for 2006. If it isn't the spiders, someone must be leeching our images or something.

Maybe people are Googling pages that have suggestive words on them?

I dunno, man.

It's only the third, so the rest of the data isn't that interesting (it keeps monthly records), but the hits are still distributed as you'd expect, with Hyper Beam and Mewtwo having most of the hits.

Inexplicably, Karate Chop is the monthly attack leader, which leads me to believe some Googlin' action is going on there.

Tough to see a real pattern with just a couple days' worth of data. I'll try to remember to post again before the end of the month.

[ 11-03-2006, 12:20 AM: Message edited by: Mr. K ]
 
Posted by Mewone (Member # 1694) on 11-04-2006, 02:02 PM:
 
AZURE SHALL RISE AGAIN! MWAHAHAHAHA!
 
Posted by Slade_64 (Member # 804) on 11-05-2006, 03:06 AM:
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mr. K:
Inexplicably, Karate Chop is the monthly attack leader, which leads me to believe some Googlin' action is going on there.
Tenacious D maybe??
 
Posted by Rolken (Member # 7) on 11-13-2006, 09:51 PM:
 
I'm pretty sure it's Google. Azure now has the highest pokedex entries for most of the RBY pokemon, averaging around 4th-6th on Google.
 
Posted by Mewone (Member # 1694) on 11-14-2006, 04:55 PM:
 
Diglett = penis?
 
Posted by ieR2 (Member # 3934) on 11-15-2006, 01:35 PM:
 
Humps the corpse




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Posted by Eaichu250 (Member # 826) on 11-15-2006, 09:07 PM:
 
don't worry guys i'm back

i'll revive the boards!!
 
Posted by White Cat (Member # 42) on 04-19-2007, 03:52 AM:
 
Really makes no friggin' sense. Did they just get Pokemon in China or something?

All the records for Most Hits and Most Bytes Transferred are for 2006. If it isn't the spiders, someone must be leeching our images or something.

I think there must be some kind of increased interest in Pokemon lately. When I was actually updating my site back in 2003/2004, I got maybe 400 hits per day. Over the last six months or so, I've been averaging almost 1,000.

The biggest chunk of hits come from Google Image search, going to my picture of the 135 new Ruby/Sapphire Pokemon. I can't tell what the search terms were, but I see that it's the #1 hit for "new pokemon" (which probably means that every day, I'm making a thousand people angry that they didn't find pictures of the Diamond/Pearl ones).

Perhaps D/P has sparked a revival in the Pokemon francise that R/S/E (and possibly even G/S/C) failed to do?
 
Posted by Sarcadia (Member # 4036) on 05-29-2007, 09:42 AM:
 
Well, yeah. Pokemon's back with a vengeance. Which is good; the third generation sucked more anus than my ex after two beers.

This is also why I registered. Again. Pokeymans and nostalgia.

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