I don’t have any writing (since I’m horribly behind schedule) to share… but I can share something else. 
I took a snapshot of this sometime back. For anyone curious, these are my itch stats for Scarlet Sorceress right at the 30-day mark. Managed to scrape 5000 views.
(I’m not sure how cogdemos calculates the view count, though. At one point, the cogdemos version had 33 clicks but 337 views even though it was set to private viewing.)
Well… I suppose itch managed to provide a good quantity of extra traffic. 
EDIT:
I meant link clicks on this forum. The gray number that goes up next to a link every time it gets clicked.