For couple of weeks I have been coding Gamingstats. It is simple website/webapp that collects information from users steam profile daily and then generates statistics for user. Collecting and generating stats all happens on the servers background cron script, so user just needs to enter his/her steamcommunity url.

Because some users have lots of games (100+) It creates lots of data to database. (Played time for every game, every day = lots of data) And because it generates lots of data, I have created steamgroup. To enable time tracking for games, you need to join to the steamgroup. This way I can control growth of the database.

Project is still in beta and there can be some bugs. I may add some more stuff to it in future, like better layout/design and forums signature system, but now I just want to make sure it works.

System doesn’t currently work with the steamcommunity profile id’s (eg 76561197974577294), but it works well with the custom profile urls.

http://gamingstats.pelikoira.net/

I recreated the TF2LogAnalyzer. It no longer tracks stats for individual users, but it tracks global weapon usage.

I removed whole authentication system and player profiles, now the system only shows the information that was the only part I actually used on the system, weapon usage statistics.

As now I don’t have to collect stats for users, I can collect stats for every user that is on single server. So I get around 50-300 kills to my logs every map. Previously I got only about 7-20 log events per map per user.

Client is now much easier to use, just add the path and you are submitting stats to the server. You can download the client here and stats are at the same place as previously, here.

So I finally got the level 70 in modern warfare 2. I have played 2 days and 7 hours with 6513 kills and 4832 deaths. Full stats are bellow if you want to see them

However, this game isn’t anymore as fun as it was when I first started playing this… Here is some reasons why.

Lack of dedicated servers is huge problem. It doesn’t make the game unplayable, but rather very annoying. It’s just so fun to see on killcam that you shot only 2 bullets, when you really have shot half of the clip to that guy that knifed you…

Then there is those well balanced weapons like grenade launchers and anything akimbo. This would be much better game without akimbo/grenade launchers. Akimbo shotguns  are especially annoying…

And finally, the last reason for this rage post, the idiots that this game has way too much. There is just way too many kids screaming on mics, cheaters with aimbots/wallhacks, campers, people that won’t speak English and spams the chat with characters that nobody understands, retarded hosts downloading stuff while playing…

Well, this was great game for a while, but now this feels just annoying…

Modern Warfare 2 Stats

(and I will try to update this blog more often

This year has been very interesting. My blog has gained stable amount of visitors every day (80-150 uniques) and there is good amount of subscribers also. Here is some statistics from this year:

• 2770 spam comments spammed
• 279 comments created
• 51 blog posts
• Most commented article: “World War for ipod” with 201 comments
• Total of 18.5G of bandwidth used
• 224m of hd space used (Containing everything that I host under this domain)
• Total of 1 77 617 hits to webserver
  

Top articles:

• World War iPod touch/iPhone game – 7080 hits
• Dropbox – 5387 hits
• Ultimate irssi guide for beginners – 5262 hits
• Play World War and other games on computer – 2807 hits
• Amazon ec2 – 2701 hits
• Woopra – 2352 hits
• iStat menus system monitor for mac – 2152 hits

Source of visitors:

• Direct 4.92%
• Links 55.25%
• Search engines 39.8%

Browsers:

• Firefox 68.89%
• IE 13.11%
• Safari 10.41%
• Chrome 3.23%

Operating systems:

• windows 67.72%
• Mac 14.09%
• Linux 11.68%

Plans for next year

• create over 51 blog posts
• create 2.0 version of Powerslash (Ajax and other cool stuff)
• create new theme for this blog
• complete Nethack

Happy new year to everybody!

I don’t know why, but I love also all kind of stats. It’s just fun to have dozens of data and then analyze it with graphs and pie charts. Here is list of services that gives stats from various sources. I use all of them regularly.

• Google analytics – Nice stats of the website
• Woopra – Awesome realtime website stats tracking
• Feedburner – Nice feed subscribers/reach tracking
• Webalizer – Bandwith monitor provided by my webhost
• Hlstatsx – Most of my games are source games, so the Hlstatsx generates nice stats. (Open source version)
• Etqw stats site – The official stats site
• My own script that generates graphs from official ET:QW tracker
• Steamcommunity – Steamcommunity gives gametime stats and also very detailed stats for some games (tf2,l4d)
• Tweetstats – Very clean and nice stats for twitter usage
• Twitter grader – Another cool stats tool for twitter
• Twittercounter – Get graphs from followers
• Cloc/ohcount – Some stats from my programming
• Ohloh – Stats for almost every open source project. Code analysis.
• mon.itor.us – Just pinging my site and checking that it’s up and running
• Pisg – Stats from IRC
• Last fm – All of the music I listen is listed on last.fm Also see my history/progress graph generated from last.fm stats
• Wakoopa – Wakoopa tracks what apps I use and how much.