News
Upgraded Logging System
Cordova, TN; August 8, in the year of our Lord 2016--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is officially announcing the completion of
the upgrade to the logging system. You might have noticed the
footer of the Family Friendly Gaming website documents the
current unique IP count. This is how many unique IP addresses
have visited the Family Friendly Gaming website. It does not
count how many views there are on Youtube, how many views on
Raptr, how many views on Facebook, how many views on ISSUU, how
many views on Pinterest, or how many views on Twitter. Which of
course adds to the foot print Family Friendly Gaming has on the
Internet. We now know how many unique IP addresses have visited
us year over year.
Family Friendly Gaming started in March of 2005. We have no
tracking data whatsoever from that time until January 23, 2008.
It is unknown how many hits, and how many unique IP addresses
accessed Family Friendly Gaming in that close to three year
period. From January 23, 2008 until November 2013 we have a
tracking report of fifteen million views and 3.2 million unique
IP addresses. GoDaddy did not provide us with log files to be
able to verify unique IP addresses going forward. They stopped
their tracking reports and started to provide log files. From
2013 on we have saved the log files. This new system takes each
log file and loads them into a database. We then run queries to
determine unique (or DISTINCT) IP addresses.
From 2013 through the end of 2015 we have had 4.1 million unique
IP addresses. In that same period there were only one hundred
thousand duplicates that were dropped off when we merged the
years. So we are confident not many duplicates are in the 3.2
million to the 4.1 million. Remember we also have three years
with zero stats which should offset any possible duplicates
across the two different systems. This is why we are confident
in our assertion that at this time (not counting in 2016 until
the year completes) we have had 7.3 million unique IP addresses
access the Family Friendly Gaming website. Thank you so much for
making Family Friendly Gaming successful beyond our wildest
dreams.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming