An annual review of the traffic of Gorean Archives
A brief annual review of traffic to the Gorean Archive website, and therefore its impact and usefulness to the public. This is not so easy, because the tool I use to track traffic has its limitations: it does not recognize all sources, i.e., the referrers of clicks to Gorean Archive pages, whether Second Life, Discord, or Primfeed.
But we can still draw some conclusions. The first and most obvious one, below, is that Gorean Archives has gone from a monthly average of 2,500 visits in the last quarter of 2024 to an average of 4,000 for the third quarter of 2025.
The number of unique visitors has grown more slowly, but overall, we’ve gone from 850-900 to 1,400 visitors per month. A unique visitor is therefore a person who visits the site, not just a visitor who clicks on a page or article.
Who are these visitors? Unsurprisingly, the majority are American, followed by French! The British are just behind, but the influx of Germans is fairly recent and has surpassed Canada, much to my surprise!
So, the majority of visitors are from English- and French-speaking countries, but if we look beyond the top ten countries, we find Brazil, India, Spain, Sweden, and… Japan!
As for how (which reference) these visitors arrived, we can draw a few conclusions: a third searched via a search engine, with Google being the overwhelming majority. But it’s funny when you see Yandex and Baidu in the list. Less than 10% arrived via social networks, mainly Facebook or other web platforms (forums, other search engines). This leaves more than half of visitors who arrived at Gorean Archive through other channels. And as I mentioned above, my statistics tool ignores Primfeed, Second Life, unindexed sites or those without a domain name, and of course Discord.
The clicks on the Gorean Archive pages—roughly 20,000 in total—come mainly from links shared and distributed on Second Life, Discord, and finally Primfeed.
And which pages and articles are people most interested in? Okay, no surprise here, as you’ll see: it’s primarily information about slaves and slavery, with French-language articles being viewed almost as much as English-language articles, the big winner being a game guide on Gor slaves, hands down.
The first article that doesn’t directly deal with slaves and slavery is in twelfth place: the world of Gor. I think I should post announcements from time to time to highlight these articles, right?
Conclusion?
One thing that surprised me was that even during my long hiatus from the site between June and August, traffic didn’t collapse… It just grew less quickly than during the rest of the year, with a slight decline, but it was still higher than at the beginning of the year and even higher than in 2024.
The number of “likes” also exploded compared to 2024 (when I say exploded… I mean five times more!), as did the number of comments. There have never been many—except for the hateful and threatening comments from trolls and cyberbullies, which are never published and which I ban left and right—but I went from 4 in 2024 (roughly the average for Gorean Archives) to 15 this year, which isn’t even over yet!
In short, and despite anecdotal cases of negative criticism and waves of cyberbullying even in Second Life, which, I admit, can sometimes be quite exhausting to deal with, the Gorean Archives website fulfills its role as a source of information and a guide to the world of Gor and role-playing in Second Life, and seems to be attracting and interesting more and more people.
All in all, it’s encouraging and a good motivation to keep going!
