User blog comment:Cnoteboat/The Importance of Search Engine Optimization/@comment-11387016-20150127011723/@comment-11387016-20150127103334

Biggest problem is that only very few are listed. The "most visited" list only gives 25 pages with me, which is nothing when you have a wikia with almost 18 000 pages (and there are quite a few wikias with even far greater numbers of articles). And those 25 are for the majority overview pages. It gives you a vague idea what the people come for, but not where exactly they are going from there and what they would want more. Of course we have ideas, and the amount of edits on some pages are indications, but that's not everything. Edits are largely based on what articles get you extra achievements, or even the audience you attract. People who just quickly check a unique weapon page to see on a picture where exactly it's located in-game, mostly won't correct a typo or improve grammar. Knowing the traffic we get on certain pages, would also be very handy to improve the blog series we have on our wikia. Now we more or less guess the popularity based on the amount of comments the blogs get, but that's also not a very good indication. Add a controversial poll to it, or in our case, mention "Fallout 4" anywhere in it, and the comments will explode, while it probably doesn't make the pageviews that much higher.