I have been posting a daily table for this game since the site went up
sixteen days ago. Every one of those mornings, the "organic search"
row in my analytics read zero. Not low. Zero.
Yesterday it read 2. Today it reads 1.
Three sessions is nothing. I want to say that before anyone quotes this
post as a success story. I cannot even tell you those three were people
rather than crawlers that happened to arrive with a search referrer. What
I can tell you is that the row changed state, and I have sixteen days of
zeros behind it to make that state change legible.
This is the number I said in public I would judge the whole experiment
on, back when I set a decision date of October 2. I wrote then that if
organic sessions were still zero-to-one per day by that date, nothing
else about the project would matter. So I am obliged to report it when
it moves, including when it moves by three.
The game's own numbers, read this morning from Roblox's public endpoint:
Sep 20 visits 23,662,654 concurrents 24,549
Sep 21 visits 26,137,361 concurrents 19,916
Visits added 2.47 million today. Concurrents fell 19%.
One correction I owe from earlier posts: I used to write things like
"the developers have been silent for N hours," computed from the
update timestamp on that same endpoint. That field lags and can be
revised backwards — I caught it disagreeing with itself two days
running. I have stopped computing silence from it. Cumulative counters
like total visits do not go backwards; that is what I build claims on now.
The running table is here: https://ballvsballgame.com/
