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A little over a month ago, I installed Performancing Metrics with the expectation that it would give me “an unrivaled per visitor level of detail.”
In the same post, I also mentioned a fact from their help page:
Performancing Metrics is available for FREE to all users with sites that average less than 1,000 page views per day, which is the vast majority of blogs and web sites out there.
In the same post, I asked two questions: First, does Performancing Metrics live up to its claim? Second, is it really free?
We’ve already answered the second question - it’s free. That is, as long as you don’t get too much traffic on your blog.
The first question, on the other hand, I didn’t answer.
I’m answering it now.
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DBS posted this entry at 1:12 PM on Wednesday, the 2nd of May 2007. He may have also posted related entries in the following categories: blogging; technology.
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Three months after I started drivebyshooter.net, I posted an entry on ways to check blog growth. That was sparked by Abe’s post on 5 Ways to Check Blog Growth.
That happened almost three months ago - and now that I’ve (almost) hit the half-year mark, I’m putting another notch on the kitchen door.
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DBS posted this entry at 6:43 AM on Wednesday, the 2nd of May 2007. He may have also posted related entries in the following categories: blogging; technology.
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I installed Performancing Metrics a few minutes ago and I can’t wait to see my stats. Yes, there are other stat trackers out there, but pmetrics is supposed to have a little something extra. If the chart off the right is any indication, it has a lot of tricks up its sleeve.
Yes, I’ve got other trackers installed here, but one thing I want to know is what pages people visit. Specifically, I want to be able to track any given visitor’s movement on my blog. Say, for example, a visitor visits 37 different pages, I’d like to know which 37 pages those are. I don’t want just the entry and exit pages - I want every page. This is supposed to give me that.
Why would I want to know that? I’d rather not explain. Let it suffice that this is supposed to give users “an unrivaled per visitor level of detail.”
This then begs the question: does it live up to its claim? On another note, I mentioned (in my title too) that Performancing Metrics is available for free. Is it really free?
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DBS posted this entry at 7:59 PM on Tuesday, the 27th of March 2007. He may have also posted related entries in the following categories: blogging; technology.
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I just installed a few new plugins and widgets, including Alex King’s Popularity Contest (download here) and justaddwater.dk’s Popular Posts Widget. The former is a Wordpress plugin that “keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.” The latter is a widget that lets me instantly show the results of that contest on my sidebar.
As I’m writing this entry, my stats tell me that my top post is something about getting trapped at the Blog Parteeh. Isn’t that so last month? The buzz should now be about the upcoming Philippine Blog Awards, right?
Anyway, I’ll be keeping track of which posts you like from now on. I feel bad that I didn’t know about this plugin when I first started drivebyshooter.net, but I’m sure I can still get fairly accurate stats over the next few months.
Tags: blogging, Wordpress, plugins, widgets, Alex King, justaddwater.dk, popularity contest, popular posts, site statistics, blogparteeh07, Philipine Blog Awards, drivebyshooter
DBS posted this entry at 5:18 PM on Tuesday, the 27th of February 2007. He may have also posted related entries in the following categories: blogging.
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After reading Abe’s post on ways to check blog growth, I almost immediately went to check my own site statistics. You see, this blog is just over three months old - and I think this is a good time to mark this site’s progress.
Yes, I’ve got archives dating back to 2003, but that’s because I imported all my posts from my old Blogger address. I admit, the built-in content helped my blog grow a bit faster, but I’m pretty sure my newer posts matter more than my archives.
I admit, I tried checking some of these stats back in November. I didn’t get much though. I had no Alexa ranking, no Google Page Rank, no subscribers, nothing, nil, nada. I checked again a few weeks later - and cried.
Fine, I’m exaggerating - I didn’t cry. I did get discouraged though. I decided to forget about obsessing about my stats and just keep writing. Yes, I installed Site Meter and eventually started tracking with Google Analytics, but I still ignored my site rankings - that is, until I read Abe’s post. Now I know where I stand, and I’m publishing it for all to see.
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Tags: site statistics, Blogger, Alexa, Google Page Rank, Site Meter, Google Analytics
DBS posted this entry at 10:57 AM on Sunday, the 11th of February 2007. He may have also posted related entries in the following categories: blogging; technology.
