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January 16th, 2008
Are you a Web Analytics Junkie?
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.
I 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.
hi!
i loved today strip as i’m one of the party
to me, i use awstats, and i like it. give it a shot!
how 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
Thanks for the feedback, guys – Jason – I’ll look further into Google Analytics. Gu, eddie – thanks for the kudos!
OMG. 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.
Thank 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.