Comments on: The SiteMeter Frenzy: Is it Really Necessary?

By: Bubbik

Bubbik — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:17:02 +0000

I DONOT like WebAlizer.
Main reasons:
1) Not very correct stats
2) Refspam through webalizer logs

Refspam is popular in my country, and in case they make it more often the site with WebAlizer may me ddosed.

Thats what i think

By: Marc R.

Marc R. — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:11:10 +0000

I just switched to Sitemeter the other day, formerly using Nedstat tracker. But since Nedstat switched to Webstats4U, some users complained they were being served pop-ups on my blog. So I removed it and went with Sitemeter.

I just have a personal blog, don’t do much traffic, just friends and family and people who know me (personally or over the web). But my wife and friends like the map function, showing the last several locations of visits. They think it’s neat a little blog from an Indiana guy has people from other countries that visit. Makes the world a smaller place to them, and that can only be a good thing, I figure.

I haven’t used Sitemeter long enough to comment on it’s accuracy. But the price is definetly right (free!), for the functionality it offers.

By: adsomesense

adsomesense — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:46:00 +0000

I use sitemeter! i cant mess around with 6 statmeter too much for me

By: Webfeed Decentralized » Blog Archive » Web Site Statistics

Webfeed Decentralized » Blog Archive » Web Site Statistics — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:39:30 +0000

[...] I’ve never really been one for posting statistics on my web sites. Like Aaron says, it’s not really something that a lot of people that are reading my blogs care about. [...]

By: Marc and Angel

Marc and Angel — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:47:47 +0000

I use AWStats, and I think it’s great. It’s enough for our website, although I’m sure some might require more detailed stat information.

By: paikia

paikia — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:12:52 +0000

I’m using webstats4u.com. Previously is alright, after that the new 3.0 version, it starts to have that irritating random popup.

By: Frugal Momma

Frugal Momma — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:26:13 +0000

I use sitemeter for my blogs. I like it. It is simple tells me where my visitors are coming from.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:00:14 +0000

My site has both Webalizer and AWstats. I know there are bots being counted on webalizer but there seems to be a large discrepancy between visitors, pages and hits. For example if I take, for the first part of June, Webalizer hits minus bots (as reported by AWstats) there is still a 35% difference. The other day I had 3,500 pages registered by Webalizer and 1080 by AWstats. And my AWstats unique visitor stats (500-700 a day) are half my Webalizer stats. Are there really that many bots out there or is this comment and trackback spam? Is Webalizer really overreporting that much or is AWstats under reporting? Are there any relaible resources that cover this?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:46:37 +0000

Purely JS-based stats like Google Analytics won’t count users with javascript disabled, or viewing your site through a cell phone without javascript support. It’s probably only 2% of your visitors, but I suppose that’s underreporting…

W3Counter throws in a portion on its tracking code with an image-based tracker to pick up those users, and provide analysis of JS support in various browsers for your site.

By: Christian Watson

Christian Watson — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:15:29 +0000

I always thought that JavaScript-based stats packages were more accurate as they only counted your human visitors. What am I missing?

By: razib

razib — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:24:46 +0000

I check both Google Analytics and sitemeter and i am a big sitemeter fan. I agree with you that most readers (99%) do not bother about sitemeter stats.

By: TechLowdown

TechLowdown — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:11:52 +0000

I could only see adding a public site meter to my blog if I was actively recruiting advertisers. That would be an easy way for them to get a feel of the popularity of the blog before e-mailing me for more details.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:26:57 +0000

Leon: By all means, use SiteMeter anyway you want to. The point of the entry was that some entities make it seem like not displaying publically is a mortal sin and offers less credibility to the blog.

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:24:55 +0000

I use Sitemeter myself. It may not be 100 percent accurate, but its enough for me.I don’t see the need for all this controversy. Mine is public, but I only set it like that so I can access my stats on my blog’s page instead of signing in.

By: John

John — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:55:01 +0000

Not to mention, that Sitemeter javascript can be s-l-o-w. Agree fully, there’s no way I’d make my stats public; noone who doesn’t want to contact me directly needs to know.

By: katiebird

katiebird — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:25 +0000

I just signed up for W3Counter and so far, I like it. Thanks for pointing it out.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:03:53 +0000

Question: since Shortstats doesn’t work on WP 2.0x, which single plugin package would you recommend for WP 2?

John: I don’t actually like any of the plugin based stats packages. I don’t want anything that is going to make my database grow everytime I get a visitor. I am hosting a friend’s blog and yesterday we ran into an issue and had to import his database into a new database. Long story short, he has a tiny blog as blogs go but his database was 287MB! That’s uncalled for, unneeded and it was all because of a WordPress stat plugin that logged everything into MySQL.

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:45:23 +0000

Sitemeter stats are the “official” stats of the TTLB Ecosystem.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:03:11 +0000

Just number of subscribers in a chicklet. However, it’s not there at the moment as I changed themes yesterday.

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:29:50 +0000

Good post. Thanks!

What Feedurner stats do you display publicly. Just number of subscribers? Are there options to display more than that?