Segalization is celebrating its 3rd anniversary today, after a rather busy year for our team. This anniversary article will be a bit different, as I’m not going to talk about the SEGA and Atlus related news from the past year. I’ll reserve that for another article, and instead talk about Segalization itself a bit more.
I probably spent more time on the website in the past year than ever before. It’s become a personal project of mine that I’ve become more invested in than I had initially anticipated. The fact is that Segalization is a small website in terms of its number of followers, and that’s likely not going to change anytime soon. Nonetheless, the website continues to reach more readers each year. For example, this year we experienced a 70% increase in pageviews compared to the year before. It’s not a bad result, and I hope we can reach even more people in the next year.
From a technical perspective, I’ve continued to work on making Segalization faster and more efficient. My main objective has always been to create a fast website with a minimalist design, free of advertisements, and up to date with the latest technology. Some of you may have noticed that Segalization is available over a secure SSL connection only, and I’ve taken the best possible measures to ensure that this doesn’t impact performance.
In fact, Segalization has supported HTTP/2, the latest HTTP protocol update, for about a year now. At the moment only 10.7% of all websites support HTTP/2. It’s arguably overkill, but I’ve learned a lot from working on improving Segalization. I also hope to develop an entire custom theme for the website sometime in the next year.
Of course, all this matters little for a website if it doesn’t have the right content. Aside from the occasional review, Segalization remains a website that focuses on releasing news articles. In that regard, I feel like this year Segalization has released more articles about topics that you wouldn’t readily find on other websites. I hope we can continue that trend throughout the next year. I’d like to add more value to Segalization other than just bringing news, but that’s a process that takes time. Hopefully, our team will be able to realize some of the ideas we have in mind in the next year.
To our readers, I’d like to thank you all for following our website! If you have any feedback that you want to share with us, please do. For example, what is it that you like about our website, and how do you think we could improve it? Feel free to contact us on social media or in the comments here!
Lastly, I want to thank InTheSky and Kuronoa for their continued contributions to the website. I’m very thankful to them that they’re still around for this project even after 3 years.
Normally I don’t post comments. Comments’ sections tend to be the dregs. Yet I wanted to congratulate you on your success. I’ve been running my own Web site online since 1999 so I know how much work and dedication a Web site can command from its owner. So I commend you on running such a valuable resource for the last three years. Let’s hope SEGA will bring more “too Japanese” games westward if it realizes we fans really would like some of them enough to bring them here!
Thanks for the kind words Sean!
You can be proud of your work and that’s already a big thing! sega is a niche company, and you guys mostly cover the nichest of sega news lol it’s only natural less people will be interested on those news, and talking about games you really are not interested on (for example, football manager) would not do things better, that’s the main difference between a news site, and a fan site that reports news.