Comments on: Checking the Stats that Really Count

By: Suzanne Vara

Suzanne Vara — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:45:40 +0000

Stefan & Nick,

I hold head low and admit, I am Suzanne Vara and I am a stataholic. I check them a lot and analyze and analyze and then just take a peek in case they missed me.

Seriously though your points are well written and the time peeking over at stats is valuable writing time.

@SuzanneVara

By: Kok Siong Chen

Kok Siong Chen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:59:10 +0000

I always keep on checking my blog stat when i’m free. I wish to know how well my blog progress. I used Google Analytic to analyse the statistic of my blog.
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By: Nicholas Cardot

Nicholas Cardot — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:17:13 +0000

Eric » Great. I’m glad that this helped make these different stats more understandable. I remember when I was starting out and I had no idea what those concepts meant.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:55:31 +0000

Thanks Nick for this post as I didn’t quite understand what each of those meant and now I know I can come back to this post and see what it all boils down to should I forget.

I think this will show a lot of people ways where they could improve and will definitely clear a lot of things up.

Thanks!
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By: dimi

dimi — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:44:35 +0000

I know I was (and secretly still am) addicted to stats. I spent way to much time on google analytics. At first it was just a global view of my stats, then I started digging deeper into visitor behaviors etc. It started getting out of hand, I would spend hours on that stuff.

So I finally realized what I was doing was taking time away from working on content, so I had to tone it down, way down.

Thanks for the post!
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:57:12 +0000

Nice retweet!

Haven’t checked stats in over a week. Watching Alexa motion out of the corner of my eye, but not that wrapped up in it.

Gratifying to see I’m holding steady while cranking out content, with very little promotion.

Once comments on these articles get into the low hundreds, you might need to reconsider how you order them. No particular advice from me, it’s a high quality problem, and you’re going to have to deal with it at some point.
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By: Self Improvement

Self Improvement — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:45:47 +0000

I really want to get my pageviews higher. It seems people from search engines are quick to leave without reading more. Like you said in a earlier post I read, make your design good so they stick around.
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By: Nicholas Cardot

Nicholas Cardot — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:04:35 +0000

Tee Riddle » You’ve got to use what works for you. The truth is though that stats really don’t change anything for most people. It’s good to look at it only if it influences the way that you run your blog.

By: Tee Riddle

Tee Riddle — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:02:05 +0000

Hey Nicholas!

I admit I look at stats too often as well. The bad thing is I don’t know what half the stuff on Google Analytics means. I look at basically three things – did the line graph go up or down? What’s the avg. time on site? What content got the most pageviews?

I definitely want to learn more about GA and how to effectively use that information.

I also use Site Meter. Yeah, most people probably think it’s cheesy, but it’s good for a non-techie type person like myself. I like being able to look at each visitor, see where they are located, how they found my blog, what they viewed, and where they went.

By: scheng1

scheng1 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:53:21 +0000

I use statcounter, which is free and very useful. I like to see the keywords that the visitors use on search engines to get to my blogs.
I like to check the exit links stats too.
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