The idea of our little website, boardGOATS.org, was to create a medium to advertise up-coming games nights as well as log the games played. It has been around as long as the group, over twelve years now, and has just passed one thousand posts. Most of these posts are games-night related, but our series of news articles about games has also proved very popular further afield.

Some statistics…

• The site has 1,002 posts (this will be 1,003).
• It is not a high traffic site, but we have had 39,101 visitors with 58,054 views with 83 email subscribers.
• The most popular links on our site are those to the Board Game Geek website (boardgamegeek.com) with 3,698 clicks.  Internal links come next with 1,174 clicks.
• 16% of page views happen on a Monday and the most popular time of day to visit the site is around 7-8pm.
• The most popular day was May 10^th 2016 thanks largely to a post about a record breaking Carcassonne game a few days earlier.
• The most popular post was published in March 2019 and discussed counterfeiting of board games, and has nearly 6,000 views. Some eighteen months later, this was followed by a case study and another article covering a specific retailer.
• Visits peaked between November 2020 and January 2021, probably due to increased interest in board games as a result of the global pandemic and people looking for ideas for Christmas games.  In those three months the site was viewed nearly four thousand times.
• The most popular category of post is “News” and the most popular tags are Terraforming Mars, Carcassonne and Wingspan, but the majority of our local gamers get the information by email through subscription—if you would like to receive emails through this channel and would prefer not to create a WordPress account, let us know through the contact form/email and we can add you manually.

We would like to thank everyone who has enjoyed reading.