Frankly I wasn’t sure LGN would get to this point, but after several domain and hosting changes we survived 3 years today !

LGN tried to put a few contests over the years but unfortunately they failed.

Maybe I should setup something easier next time…

I’ve been very open regarding LGN and as with last time I’ll publish the stats for those who interested.

Despite all the visitors I have, I make ZERO $ on this website, and the hosting is generously provided for free by Linux Game Database (Thanks again Pheonton) – otherwise I’ve been forced to use the good old but limited wordpress.com 😉

Please note that those stats are only for the last year ( 2010-08-17 – 2011-08-15) as I’ve moved to a new host and domain (Linux Game Database) , so without farther delay, here are the stats :

The basic graph shows the visits over 13 months, as you see we had good months and bad months (after the company I worked for got bankrupted and I got fired, I wasn’t in the mood to post much so the visitors came much less, but I’ve found a new job now).

Here is the graph with more detail (and numbers) :

Overall LGN had 132,858 views this year, which is a 23,975 increase over last year !

The most popular page was as usual the “main LGN page”, then “Trine And Trine 2 Are Coming To GNU/Linux !” and the third place was “Unity GNU/Linux Exporter In Development !” – the forth and fifth pages were the “Upcoming GNU/Linux games !” and “Recently Released”.

This is a bug change as the last two pages were always visible and updated every few months, while the others were “regular” news articles.

Yearly Views 2010-08-17 – 2011-08-15

Here are the top links people loved to click on when visiting LGN

As you can see the top clicked page was happypenguin.org and close second was the excellent freegamer.blogspot.com blog about free source games.

Our generous host lgdb.org came third.

Top Clicks 2010-08-17 – 2011-08-15

URL Clicks happypenguin.org 780 freegamer.blogspot.com 745 lgdb.org 673 linuxgames.com 663 gamingonlinux.info 498 gamedrift.org 482 trine-thegame.com 452 irontowerstudio.com 395 ubuntugamer.com 384 translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/ 356 trine2.com 346 gamingonlinux.com 315 fun4tux.ch 292 runningwithscissors.com/postal3 278 linuxgamezoo.com 278 linuxgamingworld.com 268 tuxgames.com 242 rage-game.com 236 linux-gamers.net 233 garshasp.com 214 planewalkergames.com 214 disciples2.com/D2 213 amnesiagame.com 210 planetstronghold.com 198 tuxplay.com 194 achrongame.com 193 linuxgamepublishing.com/index.php 193 forum.unity3d.com/threads/5891-Linux-Web-Player?p=519300&viewfull=1#post519300 176 updates.frictionalgames.com 174 dyson-game.com/index.php 169 mygamecompany.com/linux.htm 169 icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php 168 ogre3d.org/2011/04/29/garshasp-the-monster-slayer 165 linuxgamepublishing.com/info.php?id=bandits 158 humblebundle.com 153 dilogus-game.com 152 wupra.com 147 winterwolves.com 147 quelsolaar.com/love/index.html 147 linuxgamepublishing.com 142

Generated 2011-08-15 13:09:24 UTC

Those are the websites I own big thanks for referring to LGN, and the biggest of them all was reddit.com which I begun to update with LGN’s new posts less then a year ago.

The wikipedia article “List_of_adult_video_games” is still bringing new visitors to LGN.

Also about 1-2 months ago there was a strange day in which I had many referrers from gayclubsociety.com website which is very strange because I’m straight and my website is about Linux Gaming – a friend of mine suggested that they misspelled it as “Linux GAYming” 😉

So thank you for redirecting to LGN !

Top Referrers 2010-08-17 – 2011-08-15

Generated 2011-08-15 14:02:42 UTC

The top search term was “linux gaming news” so people know what they looking for but always forget to add .org 😉

Many people were interested in Trine so “trine linux” came second and more general searches followed.

Top Search Terms 2010-08-17 – 2011-08-15