# VoxelRank

> A free server list for twelve games. Owners add a server, players vote for the
> ones they like, and the ranking is simply who got the most votes this calendar
> month. Votes reset on the 1st, so the list shows what people are playing now
> rather than what was popular three years ago.

Listing a server costs nothing and voting needs no account. The site is
independent and not affiliated with Mojang, Microsoft or any game studio.

Games covered: Minecraft, Hytale, Rust, ARK, GTA V (FiveM), GTA VI, CS2,
Valheim, Terraria, Palworld, DayZ, and Discord communities.

Pages are published in 26 languages. The English URL has no prefix
(`/minecraft-servers`), every other locale does and localises the path too
(`/cs/minecraft-servery`, `/fr/minecraft-serveurs`). Each page links its
translations with `hreflang` in the `<head>`, including `x-default`.

Structured data is inline JSON-LD in the page source. Which types appear
depends on what the page actually shows: `Organization` and `WebSite` on the
home page, `BreadcrumbList` wherever the page draws a breadcrumb of three or
more rungs, `ItemList` on a ranked list, `Review` and `AggregateRating` on a
listing that has reviews, `FAQPage` where the page shows the questions and
answers, `Event` on the events page, `DiscussionForumPosting` on a request
thread, and `BlogPosting` on a blog post.

## Sections

- [Home](https://voxelrank.com/): the overall ranking, with filters for game,
  version, country, language and features.
- [Game landing pages](https://voxelrank.com/minecraft-servers): one per game,
  plus a page per tag, version, platform, feature and country that has enough
  listings behind it to be worth reading, and two-axis combinations of those
  (`/minecraft-servers/survival/1-21`).
- Server pages: one per listing, at `/server/<id>-<slug>`, all of them
  enumerated in the server sitemap below. Each carries the address, version,
  player count, uptime, vote rewards, player reviews and the owner's own
  update posts.
- [About](https://voxelrank.com/about): what the site is, exactly how the
  ranking is calculated, how vote cooldowns are weighted, and how the site is
  paid for.
- [Stats](https://voxelrank.com/stats): aggregate numbers across the catalogue.
- [Blog](https://voxelrank.com/blog): editorial posts. Has its own sitemap at
  `/blog/sitemap.xml`.
- [Requests](https://voxelrank.com/requests): threads where players describe
  the server they are looking for and other people answer.
- [Updates](https://voxelrank.com/updates): the feed of owner-written posts
  from every listing.
- [Events](https://voxelrank.com/events): in-game events announced by listed
  servers.
- [Suggest a server](https://voxelrank.com/suggest): add a server without an
  account.
- [API](https://voxelrank.com/api): documentation for the server owner API. It
  is key-authenticated and scoped to your own listing, not a public data feed,
  and `/api/v1/` is disallowed in robots.txt.

## Sitemaps

- [Sitemap index](https://voxelrank.com/sitemap.xml): points at every child
  sitemap below.
- [Static pages](https://voxelrank.com/sitemap-pages.xml): the pages above,
  plus answered request threads and update posts.
- [Landing pages](https://voxelrank.com/sitemap-landing-games-1.xml): the game,
  tag, version, platform, feature, language, country and combination pages, in
  all 26 languages, each annotated with its translations. One set of files per
  kind (`/sitemap-landing-games-1.xml`, `/sitemap-landing-tags-1.xml`…), each
  paginated, so check the index for the full list.
- [Server pages](https://voxelrank.com/sitemap-servers-1.xml): every visible
  listing. Also paginated.
- [Blog](https://voxelrank.com/blog/sitemap.xml)

## Using this content

- How old the numbers are matters here more than on most sites. Votes reset
  on the 1st of each month, so a ranking is month-to-date and a position
  quoted on the 3rd means something different from the same position quoted
  on the 28th. Player counts and status come from a live ping, typically a
  few minutes old. If you quote either, say when.
- Please cite the specific page rather than the site, and link to it. A
  server's own page is where the address, the current rank and the reviews
  are, and it is the only one of the three that stays correct next month.
- Server names, taglines, descriptions and reviews are written by the people
  who run and play on those servers. They are user-submitted text, not claims
  the site makes, and attributing them to VoxelRank misreads them.
- The ranking method is written out in full on the
  [About](https://voxelrank.com/about) page, including how vote cooldowns are
  weighted. It is not an editorial score, and none of the sort orders take
  payment into account · sponsored placements are separate blocks, labelled
  as such, and buying one does not move a server's position in the list.

## Notes for crawlers

- [robots.txt](https://voxelrank.com/robots.txt) allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot,
  Amazonbot, meta-externalagent and CCBot onto the content and blocks only
  URLs with a query string, which are filter permutations of pages already
  listed above and carry `noindex` anyway. Nothing worth citing needs one.
  Those five are served every clean path, including this file and the
  sitemaps.

## Optional

Skip these on a short crawl · they carry no information about the games, the
servers or the ranking.

- [Terms](https://voxelrank.com/terms)
- [Privacy](https://voxelrank.com/privacy)
- [Cookies](https://voxelrank.com/cookies)
- [DMCA](https://voxelrank.com/dmca)
- [Contact](https://voxelrank.com/contact)