For quite some time now, I have noticed that my major updates have fewer views than regular devlogs. 

I contacted support several months ago and was told that a major update does not guarantee that it will be featured, which I already knew, but should major updates really have a lower view rate? In the entire time that my game's page has existed, I have never had a major update receive more views than a regular devlog.


I was advised to create a new game page, which I don't want to do, so maybe someone else has encountered a similar problem?

Yes. I actually don't bother with devlogs most of the time because the views pick up over time - probably bots and there is no click through from the devlogs to my game pages i.e.  devlogs do not increase my page views, or downloads.

Creating a new page means you lose contact with those following your old page and that's probably not a good solution either.

Are you talking about views on that devlog or views on the game page as a result from the devlog?

Because I guess the most influx from a featured major update devlog would be circumanstancial by being on top of recent again. 

If you have regular devlogs that are in https://itch.io/feed?filter=posts those might create traffic all by themselves. And I suspect a non featured major update devlog does not appear there? I do not know. But unattached blog posts appear there, so I would assume that a lot of unfeatured devlogs do appear there.

Also, your devlogs appear to your followers and if they are the major contributors to the traffic after a devlog, the statistic about featured devlogs might be off.