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February 28, 2006 12:03 PM

New And Exciting Stats

I love stats (also know to serious people as “analytics.”)  In the past, I’ve written about the variety of stats packages I use and track regularly (e.g. at least daily.)  Today, FeedBurner came out with an upgrade to its stats that add a number of new things, including uncommon uses, the concept of “reach”, and item popularity.   Mike Arrington at Techcrunch has a comprehensive post up with screen shots - rather than repeat this here, I’ll simply point you there to take a look.

In other stats news, I thought I’d refresh the list of things I was using.  I’ve added a few (such as BlogBeat – which I love) and removed a few (such as MessageMap, which was intolerably slow, getting increasingly “wrong”, and – now that it’s owned by Google, will likely be integrated with Google Analytics, which I still use, sort of.)  Here’s the old list as of 8/16/05.

Here’s the new list as of today:

I’ve dumped the others for the following reasons:  

  • AWStats: Stats weren’t telling me much
  • Google AdSense: Google Analytics (and now BlogBeat) gives me much better data
  • Bloglet: I dumped Bloglet and use FeedBlitz, which has stats integration with FeedBurner
  • MeasureMap: Slow, wrong data, and now part of Google (hence I expect integration into Google Analytics someday)
  • Feedster: Increasingly irrelevant / redundant data

Yes – less is more in this case (since I’m getting a lot more data from the services I’m using as they evolve.)

Posted in: Blogging

COMMENTS (2)

I just dumped my .mac account and would gladly give my $100 to a single provider of all these services across my several blogs. Unsure why FB doesn't just implement the outbound link tracking and other value-adds, pretty simple to build I would think.

relaxedguy Author Profile Page, February 28, 2006 3:21 PM

Have you tried mint?

I use mint, awstats, feedburner and google analytics and find that between them, and their differing focuses, I get a good overall feel for my readership.

Steve , March 1, 2006 2:42 AM

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