Comments on: Blog Analytics

By: auto transport

auto transport — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Are there any new updates for this article? I hope you do have one.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:30:54 +0000

I updated this recently with a new post

By: Kevlar

Kevlar — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:11:22 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write about some of your favorites. Has this changed at all recently (since this post was from 2005)?

Did you ever find a good dashboard?

Kevin

By: ishkabible

ishkabible — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:59:00 +0000

Blog Analytics

Brad Feld has a post on the tools he uses on his blog, Feld Thoughts … Blog Analytics, August 16, 2005 … he’s since moved to FeedBlitz instead of Bloglet ……

By: Bob Wyman

Bob Wyman — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:29:49 +0000

have you considered using PubSub SiteStats? The stats we have for you can be found at: http://www.pubsub.com/site_stats.php?site=http://www.feld.com bob wyman

By: Weblogs Work

Weblogs Work — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:28:40 +0000

LazyWeb Request: Integrated Blog Metrics

Brad Feld sort of makes a LazyWeb request, noting all the various places he looks to learn from his blog readers and wondering aloud about how he can easily integrate all those measures into a dashboard. Here are the things he’s looking at…

By: Josh Greene

Josh Greene — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:10:07 +0000

I just wanted to let you know how much I liked the post. Provides a great reference for bloggers to make sure they have all of the different tools set up, and can take optimum advantage of them. It inspired me to get my FeedBurner feed set up as the only feed, so as to improve my stats.

By: David Evans

David Evans — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:29:46 +0000

Perhaps a LazyWeb request is in order. I’m developing a dashboard for corante.com, we use a lot of the same services you mention. Total nightmare when it comes to crunching metrics. Lot’s of redundency across services you list and AWStats? Ugh, very 1999, surprised someone hasn’t come out with AJAJ-powered stats page that is an RSS feed. How difficult can that be?

FeedBurner is great, lot’s of new stuff coming soon which will make it easier for us blog publishers to manage stats across entire network, subdomains, etc. Sexiest stats in the business, if the ad network is any good, should be a good solution for the near future. Who knows what’s coming out 6 months from now, at least most vendors make it easy to disengage from stats and RSS ad programs.

The fact that most RSS advertisers do not carry ads for blog sidebars, raises my ire. Make my life easier, not more difficult. Most know very little about how advertising runs on websites, what the ad manager’s day is like, useful metrics, and so on.

If MovableType intergrates all of this into the MT control panel, that will be a cause for celebration.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:47:56 +0000

Excellent commentary, as usual. If someone solves the ‘stats dashboard’ issue, I’ll be the first taker. I also use a combination of Crystal reports, awstats, rss feeds, etc to try to assimilate a decent, meaningful picture, but it could be MUCH easier! Off the topic, I’ve been monitoring your blog, and given your depth of experience, what’s your take on the current software licensing model discussions – buy vs subscribe vs ‘micro payments’ – where do you see this going?

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:55:42 +0000

It would be awesome to use RSS to easily assemble all the key data from different metrics on one page.