Feb 11, 2025 00:00:00

GIGAZINE achieves SEO 100 points, GIGAZINE various things done in January 2025 data ranking summary

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the GIGAZINE Secret Club , but will be available to everyone until March 31, 2025.

Announcement 1: GIGAZINE's SEO (search engine optimization) score was recorded at 100 points in ' Lighthouse ', a free Google Chrome extension that can diagnose websites. Originally it was 72 points, but we've done everything we can to get to the point where we feel there's nothing more we can do! And now the results have finally come to fruition.

Announcement 2: We have prepared the following page to display the names of those who have supported the operation of GIGAZINE's servers, like the stone pillars of shrines, game credits, and Discord server boosts. Thank you to everyone who supported us!

List of members who have supported GIGAZINE so far - sponsor

You can support us by donating just 1 yen via the page below, and we would be very grateful if you could support us.

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Announcement 3: The final chapter, Chapter 10, of the free full-color manga 'The Part-Time Life of a Hero and a Corporate Slave' currently being serialized on GIGAZINE has been published!

[Free Manga] 'The Part-Time Life of a Hero and a Corporate Slave' Episode 10 (Final Episode) 'The End Credits of the Hero and the Corporate Slave' The part-time life comes to an end! Goodbye, Corporate Slave Hero

The synopsis is like this.

Kuzuru travels between another world and modern Japan, working both as a hero and a corporate slave. While trying to save the world from a strange disaster caused by his work, he is plagued by a lack of resources in game production and monsters that keep reviving.
Kuzuru rises once again to overcome the impossible challenge and save the world. Don't miss Kuzuru's final battle and the farewell credits until the very end!
See you guys!

So, below are some useful data to help you advertise on GIGAZINE .

January 2025
Number of access requests: 178.13 million
Page views: 38.74 million (down 3.31 million)
Number of unique users: 16.6 million (an increase of 740,000)
Transfer volume: 14.403TB
*Measurements taken by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, images and other multimedia files accounted for approximately 11.438TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 2.965TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in January 2025 was 571.

Next, the top 10 most popular articles in January 2025. These are the results of an analysis using Google Analytics.

1st place: Netflix raises prices again, subscription fees up to 16%

2nd place: After ad blocker users were shown unskippable ads for nearly three hours, YouTube said it 'did not set up such ads'

3. It turns out that over 50% of Google search result removal requests come from just one company

4th place: Why do the wealthy use American Express cards?

5th place: The first PlayStation's compact PS one-like game console 'SuperStation One' has been released, allowing you to play not only PlayStation but also multiple retro games

6. Apple's secret addition of 'Enhanced Visual Search' to send photos without permission is criticized as an invasion of privacy

7. Nintendo to announce 'Nintendo Switch 2' on January 16th

8th place: What's the problem with not being able to use all the electricity generated by solar power?

9. Open-world games like 'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild' improve mental health

10th place: Just 30 lines of Linux code can reduce data center power consumption by up to 30%, and this will be reflected in Linux 6.13

So, next we will look at the trends of GIGAZINE readers by browser they use, as follows.

1st place: Chrome : 54.01% (0.70% decrease)
2nd place: Safari : 29.96% (0.24% decrease)
3rd place: Edge : 5.94% (0.40% increase)
4th place: Safari (in-app) : 3.85% (0.14% decrease)
5. Firefox : 3.09% (up 0.12%)
6th place: Android Webview : 0.24% (2.25% decrease)
7th place: Samsung Internet : 0.33% (0.01% decrease)
8. Opera : 0.25% (up 0.02%)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.08% (0.01% increase)
10th place: YaBrowser : 0.01% (out of the ranking)

Next, the top 10 sites that linked to GIGAZINE and brought the most traffic to GIGAZINE are as follows. Search engines are excluded.

1st place: X (1st place last month)
2nd place: Google News (2nd place last month)
3rd place: Hatena Bookmark (3rd place last month)
4th place: SmartNews (6th place last month)
5th place: Global stock prices (8th place last month)
6th place: Livedoor News (7th place last month)
7th place: DuckDuckGo (7th last month)
7th place: Facebook (5th place last month)
9th place: dmenu (9th place last month)
10th place: BlueSky (10th place last month)

Next, the top 10 phrases that led to searches on GIGAZINE are as follows.

1st place: gigazine
2nd place: Advanced visual search
3rd place: deepseek
4th place: nintendo switch2 Nintendo
5th place: Netflix price increase
6th place: The most beautiful face in the world 2024
7th place: Adblock
8th place: Genshin Impact Fine
9th place: Superstation One
10th place: Linux

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