Comments on: Tracking Your Stats With Analytics Software http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/trafficanalytics-software/ Excel(lent) Stuff Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:42:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dawn @ Coming to a Nursery Near You http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/trafficanalytics-software/comment-page-1/#comment-78286 Dawn @ Coming to a Nursery Near You Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:01:03 +0000 http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/?p=214#comment-78286 I love stats! I use what comes with wp stats as a basic idea of traffic, but I use my cpanel stats to really see things like search terms, referrers, etc. This new thing, Woopra, looks promising as well. I have been designing sites for about 10 years, so stats have always been my hangup. Finding a GOOD stat program has been like a search for the Holy Grail lol I love stats! I use what comes with wp stats as a basic idea of traffic, but I use my cpanel stats to really see things like search terms, referrers, etc. This new thing, Woopra, looks promising as well. I have been designing sites for about 10 years, so stats have always been my hangup. Finding a GOOD stat program has been like a search for the Holy Grail lol

]]> By: Chris Garrett http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/trafficanalytics-software/comment-page-1/#comment-78025 Chris Garrett Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:45:26 +0000 http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/?p=214#comment-78025 @Louis - GA rocks, even more now it is free, I used to love it when it was Urchin @Pierre - I guess if you can stop all the junk then server side is cool. I like the immediacy of client side though. Trends are an important aspect, yeah, measure against yourself rather than others, just like at the gym :) @Ulla - And the features are growing better too @Louis – GA rocks, even more now it is free, I used to love it when it was Urchin

@Pierre – I guess if you can stop all the junk then server side is cool. I like the immediacy of client side though. Trends are an important aspect, yeah, measure against yourself rather than others, just like at the gym :)

@Ulla – And the features are growing better too

]]> By: Ulla http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/trafficanalytics-software/comment-page-1/#comment-78006 Ulla Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:21:42 +0000 http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/?p=214#comment-78006 I use google analytics and I am still discovering its possibilities... Ulla I use google analytics and I am still discovering its possibilities…
Ulla

]]> By: Pierre Far http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/trafficanalytics-software/comment-page-1/#comment-77973 Pierre Far Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:41:38 +0000 http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/?p=214#comment-77973 How about server-side software with aggressive bot-detecting algos? It's actually fairly easy to detect most bots, even "stealth" ones that don't identify themselves as bots. The other way to think about it is via trends: what is the growth in RSS requests? What growth is there in subscriber counts do Google Reader/Bloglines/Newsgator/etc give in the user agent? How many times is a certain page requested per month over the past X months? You can get trends from both client-side and server-side analytics and they should correlate fairly well. Any discrepancies should be double-checked. We can also go for SEO trends to gauge health of a site: Number of links over time, or number of mentions of the site over time, rise/fall in SERPs for key query phrases, and others. These are softer metrics that are very likely to give wrong results on their own, but when pieced with other evidence, can polish off the picture with more details. Over all, a believable growth in many metrics tells you the site is healthy and growing. Otherwise, something is wrong... Pierre How about server-side software with aggressive bot-detecting algos? It’s actually fairly easy to detect most bots, even “stealth” ones that don’t identify themselves as bots.

The other way to think about it is via trends: what is the growth in RSS requests? What growth is there in subscriber counts do Google Reader/Bloglines/Newsgator/etc give in the user agent? How many times is a certain page requested per month over the past X months? You can get trends from both client-side and server-side analytics and they should correlate fairly well. Any discrepancies should be double-checked.

We can also go for SEO trends to gauge health of a site: Number of links over time, or number of mentions of the site over time, rise/fall in SERPs for key query phrases, and others. These are softer metrics that are very likely to give wrong results on their own, but when pieced with other evidence, can polish off the picture with more details.

Over all, a believable growth in many metrics tells you the site is healthy and growing. Otherwise, something is wrong…

Pierre

]]> By: Louis Liem http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/trafficanalytics-software/comment-page-1/#comment-77972 Louis Liem Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:38:14 +0000 http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/?p=214#comment-77972 I use GA. It makes numbers read and understood easily with charts and visuals I use GA. It makes numbers read and understood easily with charts and visuals

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