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Listen, we need to talk: I feel it’s time for me to come clean. We’ve known each other for a while now, and I can’t keep this a secret any longer. I’ve been… watching you. I’ve been observing where you came from, where you’ve been going. It’s… it’s a compulsion, and I just don’t think I can stop. I hope this doesn’t creep you out, because it’s making our relationship stronger. It helps me understand what interests you, and what I can do to keep our time together more rewarding. Fortunately, I’m talking about blog statistics tracking software, not creepy internet voyeurism.
Crashpod is currently employing 2 separate tracking packages: the $30 server-side tracker Mint, by Shaun Inman, and the free remote reporting tool Performancing Metrics, from Performancing.com.
Mint is an amazing little tool, from its small price tag, to its extensibility through the cleverly named “Pepper” plugins, Mint offers an impressive array of features that are aggregated in a local database, which helps users get the most out of their websites. Pros: polished code and feel, extendable feature set, bragging rights for using software developed by one of web 2.0’s rockstar programmers. Cons: stats are all simple numerical values, graph plugins require an SVG compatible browser.
Performancing Metrics on the other hand, is a completely free solution that stores its results in a remote database out of the control of individual users. Though the user’s data isn’t contained within the same database as their blog, this software offers its results in the form of easy to understand bar and line graphs. Pros: free as the wind, easily accessible graphic results. Cons: remote data storage, clunky interface.
If you have a blog or any type of website, it’s worthwhile to implement either of these solutions: start peeping through the windows of your userbase today!
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youre a very very sick individual
who the hell is browsing in 800×600!!! i’m classified under other, nothing new.
Who is still using IE?
You’d be surprised at the ridiculous stats we see on major websites for my work: IE still comes in at 80% and the majority of resolutions in use are 1024×768 and below. Just gotta keep spreadin’ the gospel!
I’m addicted to stats too. Here is another free one that even the users can look at as well, and pretty cool.
http://www.mapsurface.com/
I use StatCounter. You can get info on the last 100 visitors for free. My personal site is down now, but another site I have on there registers 86% in IE 12% in Firefox - 2 different versions, and 2% in Safari. So apparently, the IE / FireFox revolution must continue…
most of the time im crashing its when im at work…not working. Needless to say, the government is still stuck on IE. But i think the funniest thing in the world is watching old people that cant see. Most of them have resolutions set to 800 x 600. They put their glasses on to read a piece of paper, take them off the read the screen, off..on..off..on…silly old people