Comments on: 10 Things to Consider When Choosing a Site Meter

By: domainregs

domainregs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:40:22 +0000

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By: syahid ali

syahid ali — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:14:31 +0000

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By: 10 Things to Consider When Choosing a Site Meter | Friedbeefâ€™s Tech

10 Things to Consider When Choosing a Site Meter | Friedbeefâ€™s Tech — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:36:55 +0000

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By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:58:55 +0000

Very nice tip NCAN! That site looks really slick

By: NCAN

NCAN — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:40:29 +0000

I use the free software phpmyvisites http://www.phpmyvisites.us/
Its fairly complete and easy to use :-)

By: What To Look For In a Site Meter at LifeSpy

What To Look For In a Site Meter at LifeSpy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:30:41 +0000

[...] Knowing your readers, and what they like is essential if you want to customise your blog content to their needs. One of the best indicators of what works and what doesn’t is of course – by tracking page traffic. To do this you have to pick one of the many many site metric trackers out there. What should you look for in one? Here is a summary of a comprehensive list of factors to look for. [...]

By: Dave Forde

Dave Forde — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:26:42 +0000

Great list, another solution that may help others is http://www.enquisite.com. It is a great compliment to analytics.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:39:06 +0000

Hi James. I’ve got two servers .. my main one uses Urchin which is great! Although, it’s a mega account with tons of subdomains, domain aliases and the like. It’s great for the global picture but not for individual domains. My other server is a reseller, and I wish they had anything. They just use the raw access logs and I have to download logs and then use AlterWind Log Analyzer Lite to see. It’s quite detailed – but, using a reseller account for each blog I have .. it only works one site at a time. i.e. aggravating.

If I was more serious and ka’ching more into my pocket.. I’d be more serious. Sitemeter is good enough for the now and a snapshot for me.

I’ve seen some great Awstats graphs in sitepoint though that would be much better if planning to sell sites. Oh well .// Cya!

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:24:12 +0000

Hart: My AWStats comes built in with cPanel so i never needed to switch over… you might want to check your server too :)

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:46:13 +0000

Good post! when I hit 20 projects in Statscounter .. it was too cumbersome to login each time I wanted to see data. Then I switched to google analytics .. and it’s pretty much what you say at the end (I wasn’t doing anything with that information overload). Now – like you – I just have Sitemeter on public view at the bottom of each page for convenience. I find it works best for my needs. I switched last Nov2005 so, I’m finally a year into that. If I were to switch .. it would probably be to awstats although, then I’d have to start over.

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By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:22:34 +0000

Thanks Cypher, Markus & Garry. Interesting counter options there.

Awstats looks particulary interesting. If it gets the results directly off my server, it looks like it gives me more options without extra loading overhead.

By: Garry

Garry — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:37:30 +0000

James,

Excellent post… I have used sitemeter for years… I mean, I LONNGGGG TIME! So I found it very interesting reading your article.

I use Awstats which is a program included in my cpanel hosting. I really enjoy using that program because it gets its information direct from the server logs.

It wasn’t until earlier this year when I stopped using programs like SiteMeter, Extreme Tracking…. I really enjoy Awstats, it tells me exactly what I need to know, and is very accurate.

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:16:51 +0000

Just coming from ProBlogger … btw. I like the design of friedbeef! Back to subject …

There is one aspect which came up lately with HitTail and 103bees: The easy analysis of inbound search traffic.

Regarding counters I have written an article at performancing.com: How would you decide? Two counters have to go …

http://performancing.com/node/4368
(This article also links to HitTail and 103bees articles)