Catching up from the last maintenance update, where I fend off some bots: Well some bots are imitating normal browsers and continue to hit the website at a high rate. Looks like we are playing cat-and-mouse games with each other. I've now deployed another approach to find out the worst offenders and block their entire ASN. You can fake the user agent, change your IP address but switching to another autonomous system ain't that easy if not impossible. There might be some collateral damage, i.e. if you encounter a "429 Too Many Requests" message you're unfortunately tied to the same currently blocked ASN.However this is just a test for the time being and I'm going to evaluate the outcome. Maybe I'll block single IP addresses instead if this is not feasable. But I can tell you one thing: That Yandex bot is nuts! Nevertheless I've taking care of other issues, too: Images have started to be missing quite a lot. Turns out, Steam has changed the way how game and DLC logos are stored. Same applies to its lazy loading of badges. It's all fixed now and images are successively fetched again. To top things off, I've added some more interactive tooltips instead of simple titles with a longer delay to show up. Tooltips are now displayed much faster in a more direct way. Hope you like it!
Written on January 13, 2026 at 12:04 AMMerry X-mas and and a happy New Year for 2026! The website is running fine and stable since the last maintenance update, so enjoy a happy and festive achievement hunting!BTW we also hit another milestone and are now tracking over 3 million achievements!
Written on December 24, 2025 at 06:45 PMHey everyone,believe it or not, but I found some time to work on AchStats. As you might experienced the website was hard to reach lately. This was caused by massive (AI) bot onslaught literally farming our database. I've now taken measures against all bots and the site seems to be usable again!On another note, we had a partnership with Game DB aka Global Steam in the past and someone suggested to link SteamDB instead. That's also done and you can view profiles, games and badges directly at steamdb.info.Until next time!
Written on December 20, 2025 at 08:15 PMWe're currently experiencing server outages. We're working to resolve the issue and will keep you posted!
Written on July 02, 2025 at 10:33 PMMerry X-mas everyone and a happy New Year for 2025!
Written on December 24, 2024 at 11:11 PMWe wish you a Merry X-Mas and happy seasonal achievement hunting[www.achievementstats.com]! Stay healthy and enjoy your family!
Written on December 25, 2023 at 12:59 AMJust a quick info, we are now starting the process to put additional hard drives into our server. This should give us the much needed disk space causing all the outages in the last weeks.On another note, this group recently hit 7000 members! Welcome aboard!
Written on October 21, 2023 at 02:54 PMIt's the 11th birthday of AchStats and I've got a present for ya! For todays occasion I've prepared a neat little new date filter feature!Where to findYou can now filter by time period in various histories and achievement listings! Crawl through newly added or deleted cheevos, check out the unlocks in a profile's or game's history and even all the badges!How to useEvery field in the date filter is optional, i.e. Just limited by year and the remaing from/to fields are pre-filled accordingly. Examples: Filter to year 2010 - December the 31st at 23:59:59 is set automatically Filter from day 15 - January of current year at Midnight is set automatically Filter to month February - 28th day with current year is set automatically Filter from hour 1 pm of November 2009 to Nov 2009 - the 1st Nov with minutes 0 and seconds 0 as well as 30th Nov at 23:59:59 are set automaticallyAs you can see it is a pretty handy and easy tool to use!Try it yourselfThe new filter is now live together with our annual golden theme! Some translations have also been updated by our loyal maintainers and are complete again. Give it a shot! What else?You might remember some downtimes since we ran out of disk space. We've therefore stopped to host avatar images ourselves and are now directly linking to Steam instead. This freed up a whopping 23 GB of space! Since then the system is running smooth again.Enjoy this update!
Written on February 18, 2023 at 03:28 PMAnother year passed and it's Christmas Eve again! I have good and bad news for you:The bad news is we ran out of disk space. Calculating the ranking table is therefore currently not possible and will stay unchanged until a solution is found.Good news is we have a Resident Evil 7 Biohazard key as a little Christmas present for you! You have to guess only one letter (question mark), so be quick! Here you go: GWGAY-G?7JC-Z697PI'm going to chime in later and post a comment with another key for Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster! Even if you miss the RE7 present, you might still have a chance to get RE0!Thanks to NoVeXX for providing these keys and merry X-mas everyone!
Written on December 25, 2022 at 05:08 PMIt's hard to believe, but we started AchStats a full decade ago! Now ten years later we're still alive and kicking! In terms of a special update, this was already deployed last week for more performance facing the huge amount of newly added profiles.Speaking of new profiles, it is still going on: Just another ~30,000 additions in the last two days totaling in ~984k profiles! Those are just not immediately crawled or the update queue is going to explode again. So the journey of AchStats continues and some day we might release version 2.0 as a complete overhaul. Maybe for the 20th anniversary? Stay healthy and keep on achievement hunting!
Written on February 18, 2022 at 09:11 PM