Comments on: Checking Website Statistics

By: Blogsvine

Blogsvine — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:10:48 +0000

Nanyate?!: The Hidden Gems of Blog Statistics…

An interesting post about how to measure your site success by delving deeper into your site stats….

By: Ivy

Ivy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:15:19 +0000

I agree with your mum! You should focus on other visitors instead of worrying about the stalker (unless your home address is somehow findable from your site).

It’s like that for new sites. You have to put consistent effort to maintain site visitors until you’ve somewhat established yourself. All the best.

By: teddY

teddY — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:49:11 +0000

Thanks for the link Ivy, your tops oh, and I just realised that although I passed the validation, I got off with a warning which says that my images have alt tags that are way too short! I guess wordpress doesn’t care about inserting descriptions into image alts. Gee!

Anyway I’ve taken a look at the WP2.5 admin interface! Very cool and clean, but I’m not very used to it – I love the old ones! It’s actually quite a timeless layout

By: Ivy

Ivy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:27:18 +0000

Geocities was so fun!! I used to madly refresh the page to wait for a good spot and a good number. HAHAHAHAHA. It was a fun while it lasted. Probably wouldn’t work today.

My angelfire site is still available, so is one of my later geocities site.

My most outrageous search engine referral is “cute japan condom” HAHAHAHA!!! I’m sure he didn’t find what he was looking for.

Looks like 2.5 got delayed. Good for you. You can check out the next functions on the link I provided. One of the developers uploaded the alpha version for public display.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:43:21 +0000

I’m a statfreak. LOL. I use Statcounter and Sitemeter primarily. But I also have Reinvigorate and AWstats as my backup. Reinvigorate is very similar to Google Analytics – just that you can view your stats real time on your desktop, instead of visiting the site.

Statcounter, Sitemeter and Reinvigorate also block my IP so I don’t skew any of the data too!

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:31:04 +0000

With my blog, I don’t remember the last time I checked my stats. I think at some point it was taking away from me actually improving them.

With my other sites, I use Analytics and tend to look at similar stuff to what you lined out here. good post!

By: Sigg3

Sigg3 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:09:28 +0000

This is the most visited webpage on my server ever since registered the domain. Although I love Monty Python and would welcome any fan to my site, I fear that that page is used/viewed mostly to fourteen year olds whom I have no wish to cater to. But what statistics are you using? StatCounter? How is that? I have the Webalizer, which is very very generous regarding stats/visitors, and Google analytics, which is very accurate but invests heavily on goals and google-related stats.. Good thing with Analytics is that you can add your own IP to a filter to remove your own visits:)

By: Hendra

Hendra — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:49:05 +0000

I am using statcounter too for my new blog. But i still not used to it’s menu and ability.

My old blog use sitemeter, sometimes i am thinking to back on sitemeter as it is easier to use.

By: Niki

Niki — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:47:08 +0000

Nice post. I use the statistics that my host provides. They are really good and let me know everything that I want to know. Though, I usually just take a quick look on the unique visitors and site referrals.

When it comes to designing & coding a layout I hate IE! Haha, I simply hate it, but I still try to get it to work too. Like you, I don’t really care for the 800×600 resolution anymore.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:24:21 +0000

I hope that’s the case. But 20% or 30 unique visitors is an overwhelming majority who leaves my site on and go have lunch, don’t you think? Hahahaha!

I don’t mind as long as they don’t send me creepy emails, which I’ve never received. I mean, this is just a small price to pay for a public personal log.