Posted on October 21st, 2007 in Stats | 4 Comments »
I used to be a hardcore Sitemeter junkie. As most of us are, I’m a stats junkie. I check and I check, I want to know where you came from, how long you were here, and where you clicked to go when you left.
Donovan happened to turn me on to Statcounter. The beauty of this service is that for one thing, you can have an invisible meter on your site, and two, you can track multiple sites with one account. It’s also really easy to use and you can block more than one IP address at a time.
Sitemeter, on the other hand, still tracks my visits (to update) from work. Maybe that’s Sitemeter’s way of telling me that I shouldn’t be doing that stuff at work, who knows.
So, in the end, it’s Statcounter all of the way for me. What about you? Do you use either one? Or another service?
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Recently, I was meandering through my stats for this blog and the thought hit me, where are you going to when you leave my site?
Are you heading to one of the more popular sites, like John Chow, or Problogger? Or are you heading back to the site that you came from?
Were you here long enough to grab the link for or comment on the Rockin’ Girl Blogger post or are you an RSSer? My mind is wondering.
Do I need to put more links on my sidebar? Or, am I not linking to enough of the other blogs out there?
What do you think?
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In the European 25 or under whose startup business shows the most promise, head on over to their site and vote for StatCounter.
This website provides us with a free service, as an alternative to SiteMeter. It gives real-time information and shows information on the last 500 visits.
I’ve never even heard of the other selections on the list. Also, none of the names on the list prompted me to google them to see what they were about.
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To fully know the livelihood of your blog, I recommend setting up a Site Meter. This is relatively easy to do and free, so you can know where your visitors are coming from and how many pages they viewed.
If you’re hosting your own site and using Wordpress, your server might have something like AWStats, or you could use Wordpress’ global stats for more information. Either way you do it, you’re going to be able to easily track who comes to your site, where they’re from, and where they outclicked to (if at all).
You can see my site meter at the bottom of the page. I don’t have many visitors just yet, but traffic is something we’ll worry about later. Now, let’s not get into the habit of checking our site meters like psychos just yet, if your blog is still new. This is a trap that some of us fall into, because we want our blogs to be successful. If you write something valuable or something that people can relate to, the visitors will come.
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