Yuvi has written a brilliant post dissecting Engadget’s statistics. He does a great job of cataloguing the amazing growth Engadget has seen over the years.
One piece of information in particular that caught my eye was, in their first three months of existence Engadget only recieved 25 comments. They presently average 526 comments a day.
If [...]
Search Engine Land is reporting that Google is set to release a new version of their analytics package complete with a new user interface and features.
According to Brett Crosby, Senior Manager of Google Analytics this new platform will enable “non-experts” to use sophisticated web analytics without expert intervention.
As long as the depth of information is [...]
Up until recently Wordpress.com’s stats tracking service was only available to blogs hosted at Wordpress.com, but with the release of the Automattic Stats plugin, those of us with self-hosted blogs will finally be able to take advantage of this service.
WordPress.com’s stats package gives users a simple snapshot of the most popular metrics for bloggers.
Unique visits/Pageviews
Referrers
Top Posts
Search Engine Terms
Outbound Clicks
Incoming [...]
If you visit your own site alot like I do, you’ll quickly find you skew your stats with all the extra pageviews and hits. There is an easy way to stop that from happening.
If you’ve played around with Wordpress a bit you’ll know it has different user levels. The most powerful user level is [...]
If any of you are using Sitemeter for stats reporting you might want to have a read of this article. It looks like Sitemeter is now pushing specificclick tracking and advertising cookies on to visitors of sites using their service.
I can’t stand spyware or this sort of selfish business practice so I’ve moved all [...]
I’ve been looking at my stats as reported by Spotlex and they in no way correlate to reality.
The article I wrote the other day on high profile car crashes has been floating around the net and sending through a heap of visitors. My real stats are telling me I’ve had over 800 hits in [...]
I’ve been meaning to do some speedlinking on a regular basis but so far that hasn’t quite happened. I might try to make it a regular thing for Fridays to wrap up the week.
Anyway, here are a few posts I came across that I thought I’d share.
Saman from Samanathon.com has been interviewed over at WPThemesPlugin.com. Unfortunately they [...]
Sorry about the lack of updates guys but these Chickenpox have really done a number on me. I’m starting to feel a little better now so the posts should start flowing again shortly.
As an example of how important it is to update your blog regularly, I just checked my stats and from my last post [...]
You may have noticed a few subtle additions to the blog. I’ve been meaning to get around to doing a big update but things keep coming up so I’m just going to do it in increments.
This is what I’ve added so far:
Subscribe via email - For those of you who don’t use rss you can now get [...]
Stop checking your stats!
I’ll admit it, I check my stats way too often. But I’m betting you do too.
The success of a blog these days seems to be defined through the amount of traffic it receives so it’s natural to be anxious about how many visitors you’re getting. The problem is this time could be better spent actually [...]
