The two Rs still lead the way, and at this rate, may soon be considered the three Rs. In the second quarter, Rollo came on like a hurricane, at least in Alexa terms, moving up significantly from number nine to number five. The net Alexa rankings for the top ten blogs improved by a cumulative -848,120, mostly thanks to Rational Male. The top ten Game blogs are below, listed in terms of estimated monthly pageviews and actual Alexa rankings.
Remember that Alexa rankings are based on links, not pageview traffic. Actual Google pageviews are listed in bold along with the percentage change from the previous quarter for those blogs reporting traffic. Italicized traffic numbers are estimates based on previous traffic and updated Alexa rank.
- TRoK: 2,350,00, 42,825 (-4,813)
- Roissy: 2,150,000, 55,448 (+187)
- Roosh: 1,650,000, 62,992 (+8,436)
- HUS: 450,000, 146,943 (+27,735)
- Rollo: 425,000, 162,634, (-1,414,514)
- AG: 323,079 (+6.5%), 206,926 (-20,276)
- Dalrock: 218,500 (-7.9%), 251,090 (+66,287)
- MMSL: 140,000 343,966 (+103,486)
- Keoni: 73,557 (+1.8%), 643,101 (-116,531)
- Just4Guys: 60,000, 707,694
Alpha Game was up in terms of pageviews and rank, but was passed easily by Rollo anyhow. I was a little surprised to see Dalrock decline in Alexa terms because he's been doing some excellent, widely-cited posts of late, so I suspect their rankings are delayed and we'll see him move up in Q3. The new group blog, Just Four Guys, featuring Han Solo and the notorious Ted D, among others, managed to crack the top ten at Badger's expense. If you know another Game blog you think belongs in the top ten, please send me the URL and your justification for it. If you are one of the listed bloggers, please send me the three-month average pageviews for the months of April, May, and June in the comments and I will update the post. Be sure to mention if pageviews are Google/Blogger, Wordpress, or some other metric.
Note also that MMSL is increasingly focused on its forums rather than its blog, which is why Athol's site is considerably more trafficked than it looks based solely on the blog numbers.
UPDATE: Now that was some fine guesstimation. I estimated Dalrock at 220k for Q2 and he reported Wordpress at 262k, 232k and 196k for the three months involved. Averaged and corrected for Google/Wordpress (.95) and that came to 218,500.
Top 10 Game blogs Q113
