Comments on: Dig Into Your Blog’s Statistics

By: pornoizle

pornoizle — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:36:25 +0000

In my opinion blog post titles should be easily readable and understandable by the readers then only they will read the post .

By: Blog Stats and Updates – IV

Blog Stats and Updates – IV — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:59:41 +0000

Digging into these statistics on my blog at blogger ( http://makeitf.blogspot.com ) has given me lot of insights into SEO, referral sites and also adsense earnings.

We need to have registered with Google Analytics or similar statistics providing website to know these stats later.

By: Lokapriya

Lokapriya — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:45:12 +0000

good topic

By: Musa

Musa — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:02:21 +0000

I need to read more into this to better my blog, but thanks for “the light.”

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:19:41 +0000

Good advice on how to make the most out of all those numbers on the screen.

By: Kirk Warren

Kirk Warren — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:18:36 +0000

Google Analytics considers Bounce Rate as viewing more than one page. I’ve seen pages average over a minute viewed, but the bounce rate was 80% or higher for a relatively short post. It basically means they came in on the link, read / viewed whatever was there and left, but they did read it. Most just didn’t see any other pages. Whether that is good or bad depends on what kind of page it is though.

If it was a purchase page, they buy the item and usually just bounce, leaving the site after the purchase, which most would consider a good thing. If its the first of your 10 part series though, you might want to reconsider whats going on with it as people just leave your site after not even one part of your article.

If you have a continuous page blog, ie, no jumps or folds (click here to read more), most people will just scroll down and read the first page and maybe leave. Or if its an update, hit the main page, read it and leave if they are a long time reader. Google Analytics will make your Bounce Rate go up based on how they calculate it.

My blog used to use that format of continuous page blog. My bounce rate was near 80% since people hit the page, read first post and then leave. My pageviews were non-existant as well, barely reaching 1.5-2.0 range per visit. When I switched to extended posts (Click here to read more!) , my Bounce Rate plumetted to below 50%, page views quadrupled, and my pages per visit is around 3-4 range depending on the day.

This doesnt mean my site got any better though. It just means my viewers were forced to click to read more and almost automatically forces 2 pages per visit if they hit the root and want to read something else. This leads ot lowered Bounce Rate, higher page views and more time on the site by default. So its all about how you interpret your results.

Hope that helped a few people out with Google Analytics and stats interpretation.

Kirk Warren
The Weekly Crisis
http://www.weeklycrisis.com

PS – I think someone asked how to view the current days stats (or they could only see yesterdays) in Google Analytics. Just click on the drop down menu of the graph and select todays stats. I think it updates every 3-6 hours for the current day.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:33:03 +0000

I like looking at my stats. I’m new to blogging but I think I’m pretty dedicated and got what it takes to become a blogger. I don’t plan on doing blogging as a pro or to make a living though. I have a analytics account with google and thats my recommendation for other website owners out there.

By: Larry Lam

Larry Lam — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:32:32 +0000

I don’t spend a lot of time analyzing my website stats, mostly try to look at the monthly visitor and page view figures, and the keywords that visitors use to find my site. From there I would do a little SEO using the long tail keyword phrase approach and quite often it works wonders!

By: Ravi Govil

Ravi Govil — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:18:44 +0000

Google Analytics is wonder tool to measure success of your blog.
I am also struggling to exclude myself in the stats. I am also not 100% sure of bounce rate. On my blog landing page, reader may just read the blog post and some of old posts on the same page, then leave. Does that increase the bounce rate though the user has spend sometime on the blog, not clicked on some other link?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:41:06 +0000

Thanks for the tips! I really should make more use of all these wonderful tools out there. Will make it a monthly (or even weekly?) ritual.

By: Shine With Grace

Shine With Grace — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:20:44 +0000

Making sense of the blog statistics is a big bit topic to dig into. Really need some good tools or otherwise we can spend lots of hours in it and still got no clue to improve…

Thanks for the great tips!

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:44:13 +0000

I’ve been using Google Analytics for about 6 months now and check in on my stats a couple or three times a week… okay, sometimes a bit more.

One question I had been pondering is how to address the number of hits my custom 404 page gets. It’s been averaging around 5-7% of my hits. Well, I started digging deeply into Google Analytics this evening and discovered that several of my .htaccess file settings were gone. Some kinda glitch on my hosts end. So, sure enough, ya gotta pay attention to those stats!

By: Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker

Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:42:11 +0000

I like the new look of your site. Less cluttered. Fengshui says when we get rid of our clutter, it opens up space for more to flow in. I wonder how the new look will affect your stats????

By: annl

annl — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:45:27 +0000

I have both Google Analytics and StatCounter running stats on my blog right now. I prefer StatCounter because I can exclude myself. Does anyone know how to exclude me from Google Analytics?

By: Genesis

Genesis — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:10:18 +0000

Nice new look! Much cleaner and easier to use.

I have been checking my blog stats and guess where the highest number of visitors are coming from? Problogger! Yup, apparently, between the Group Writing Project a while back, my multiple comments and the Blog Improvement Tips, your blog is single-handedly doubling my traffic! Thanks.

By: Igizmore

Igizmore — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:19:13 +0000

You still dont have the favicon on … why ? i still think you blog can improve on the colours , the portal is a nice idea though

By: kapy

kapy — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:33:47 +0000

I do blog statistics using sitemeter and it helps a lot

http://digital-tech-guide.blogspot.com/

By: Syiru

Syiru — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:47:19 +0000

blog statistic is good for you to monitor and analyst your audience, from here you will know which method need more attention and which method are wasting your time doing it.

if you know which blog give you more traffic then u should build a strong relation with that blog in order to increase your traffic.

maybe you also could give that blog a review in your blog as your appreciation.

syiru,
http://onlinejob.motime.com

By: Debo Hobo

Debo Hobo — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:15:15 +0000

I view the stats I get from MyBlogLog every morning, I have a free account so I don’t have the option to view all the visitors, and what they read info bit it is working for me right now.

I haven’t published my stats in a post, that would simply be embarrassing right now.

By: ChinaBlogReview

ChinaBlogReview — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:30:27 +0000

I do blog statistics analysis once a month :)

It’s a good idea to attrack attention.