Are you a Web Analytics Junkie?
Chapter: Random
Chances are you are – if you own and operate a website of any type. Studying site stats (or analytics) is something of a nerd pastime, and I’m fully guilty of participating in it. It’s interesting to see where visitors come from.
I’m humbled by the fact that the PCW have a large following in the U.S, Canada, Europe and Australia. It’s a little sparser for the PCW in Asia and Africa, but there are readers who do hail from those regions.
For all my site stats, I use Clicky. It’s free, very easy to install, and provides a lot of interesting metrics that site stat junkies can fixate upon. Do you have another pick? Sound off in the comments below.
These beautiful and intelligent people wrote
Tell me what you think!
Jason
January 16, 2008 at 9:42 amI use Google Analytics on my site. They bought out Urchin a year or so ago so you can really get some amazing statistics with your traffic. It even works well and doesn’t have issues with WordPress, Gallery or any combination of the two as far as tracking dynamic content metrics.
gu
January 16, 2008 at 10:21 amhi!
i loved today strip as i’m one of the party ;)
to me, i use awstats, and i like it. give it a shot!
eddie
January 16, 2008 at 3:34 pmhow true that is, the comic is right on. ummmm i use the godaddy tool that comes with the hosting. (yeah i said godaddy…) peace.
-madd
krishna
January 16, 2008 at 9:54 pmThanks for the feedback, guys – Jason – I’ll look further into Google Analytics. Gu, eddie – thanks for the kudos! :)
Michelle
January 17, 2008 at 9:19 amOMG. I’m a nerd?! I look at my stats every, single day. I use my Host’s stats. Sometimes I think the stats lie. For instance, why will there be “adult” websites linking to my site? It makes no sense. I wonder about that.
mashnut
January 17, 2008 at 12:06 pmThank goodness I thought it was just me. I scared one of my good friends last night by presenting him with the details of his latest hit to my page.
sitemeter.com if only for the world map that shows where the hits have come from.
Kevin Rubin
October 27, 2011 at 6:42 pmDo I have to comment, or did you know i was here?
Anton Sherwood
March 19, 2018 at 2:19 amI used to check my referral log each month; gave it up a year ago because the list was full of Russian spammers, and search engines that don’t even show me what the search string was.