Comments on: Performancing Metrics – Statistics Package for Bloggers

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:31:10 +0000

Darren,

I have been an avid user of this service since a few days after it released (so roughly a few weeks.) I absolutely fell in love with the features. I have not yet been fortunate enough to try Google Analytics, but I cannot imagine that it was more feature rich than Performancing Metrics. The ability to see the rankings of individual posts gave me incredible insight as to which topics were most popular. This is something that SiteMeter does give, but not nearly in the same manner. I was also very intrigued by the Adsense integration, as well as the clean look of the graphs and statistic pages.

My affair with Performancing Metrics, though, has become marred with technical difficulties. At one point their server stopped collecting statistics, but it turned out that it was just a simple reporting error. That was not all. This week, my two blogs completely disappeared from their system. How this happened, no one knows. Sadly it is causing me to lose valuable stats about my readership.

But despite the technical shortfalls, that actually could be expected from a new service such as this, their interface and the concept by which they deliver stats are absolutely amazing. As a blogger, I can see how a service like this has the potential to set itself apart from your average Stat tracker service. I would recommend it to any serious blogger, but expect a few bumps in the road. The best part is that everyone at Performancing is truly dedicated to fixing the bugs, and they love feedback. Although at some point they may become tired of hearing from me…

Cheers.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:50:08 +0000

Just to add to Darren, I was also an Alpha tester and the service is first rate, updated stats once an hour and very, very blog related stats. Not sure I can say much more than this, but once it is open I’m happy to recommend it, again, because Nick and the team have sat down and talked to bloggers about the sort of stats they want, where as services such as Sitemeter or Google Analytics have their flaws.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:59:20 +0000

I’ve never used Mint – but what I know of it is that it’s beautiful and has a good range of stats. Performancing’s efforts might not be quite as nice to look at but I’ve found them very useful.

Have just written a review of it – but am not sure I’m allowed to publish it yet as part of my agreement to be an alpha tester – will have to wait til Nick wakes up :-)

By: jim

jim — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:33:36 +0000

Darren – How does it compare to Mint (and the multitude of peppers)?

By: BusinessBlogWire

BusinessBlogWire — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:27:06 +0000

Coming Soon: Performancing Blog Statistics Service

The word is out today that Nick Wilson and his Performancing crew are preparing a new "world beating" blog statistics service called Performancing Metrics. This upcoming blog metrics service for professional bloggers is slated for a pub…

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:46:27 +0000

cool AhmedF – will check it out.

Vlad – not sure on that one. I’m just a tester.

Tom – I don’t have any official word on this but I suspect that cost won’t be an issue :-)

By: tom sherman

tom sherman — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:53:28 +0000

Any idea how much this will cost?

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:43:25 +0000

Sounds very interesting. I can’t wait to try out Performancing Metrics. I have one question though. Does “next week” mean the beginning or the end of next week? Lol I’m so impatient.

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:59:24 +0000

To plug our own service, but we can track AdSense clicks pretty well. We don’t show it publicly in the demo, but we track link title, link origin, advertiser link, unique # of clicks, and total # of clicks. Further breakdown on an advertiser link gives you a daily breakdown with the # of clicks per format, the channels used, the # of clicks per page, and then again uniques and total clicks.