The recreation analytics pages have been up to date to provide you higher perception about the place purchases are coming from.

If you’re conversant in itch.io you then would possibly know there are just a few alternative ways to purchase a recreation, the embeddable widget, the pay popup API, and the sport pages. In the previous, for those who had been utilizing multiple of those, you had no concept the place somebody was making a purchase order. There’s now a brand new column on the purchases overview with the Buy location of the acquisition. The present choices are “Game page”, “Embed widget”, “Popup API”.

Now that you recognize which a part of the positioning somebody is utilizing to purchase your recreation you could be considering how they received there. Well you’re in luck as a result of there’s a second new column on the purchases checklist, the Referrer.

Purchases on itch.io originate from both the inner pages (like browse video games, search, residence web page, or consumer profiles), or exterior pages like recreation blogs, Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook. The new referrers column will let you know about each. External hyperlinks are marked as exterior hyperlink and are linked to the web page that initiated the acquisition. Internal hyperlinks are proven because the title of the web page, and any addition parameters about that web page. For instance, if somebody purchased your recreation whereas shopping motion video games for OS X you then’ll see all that data.

Enjoy!