# Game Hosting Metrics

> Hourly statistics on which networks (autonomous systems, ASNs) host the public game servers of Steam games,
> and how that hosting share changes over time. 240 games tracked, every Steam game with public servers. Free, no login.

## Key facts (for quick answers)
- Coverage: every Steam app with at least one populated server or 5+ listed servers (auto-discovered weekly).
- Frequency: one snapshot per game at the top of every hour, UTC. History is kept indefinitely.
- Metrics: servers and players per network per game; share of a game; change vs the start of a range.
- Bot farms: an IP advertising 40+ copies of one game with duplicated names (or 200+ empty entries) is flagged, counted, never removed.
- Steam relay: servers behind Steam Datagram Relay are grouped under "Steam relay" because their real host is hidden.

## What the numbers are
- Source: the public Steam server browser (Steam Web API IGameServersService/GetServerList), sampled every hour.
- Each server's IP address is mapped to its network (ASN) using public BGP routing data (iptoasn.com).
- Numbers are exactly what Steam lists, including fake "bot farm" servers; games with many of those are flagged.
- "Steam relay" means servers behind Steam Datagram Relay (Valve's official servers and some community servers) whose real host is hidden.

## Pages
- https://gamehostingmetrics.com/ : all games, top networks, share, changes over 24h/7d/30d/90d/1y/custom.
- https://gamehostingmetrics.com/game/<steam appid> : one game (e.g. /game/252490 for Rust).
- https://gamehostingmetrics.com/asn/<asn> : one network across all games (e.g. /asn/16276 for OVHcloud).

## JSON API (free, no key)
- /api/games ; /api/timeseries?appid=all&range=7d ; /api/changes?appid=730&range=30d ; /api/asn/16276?range=30d ; /api/asn/search?q=hetzner

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