Comments on: When Stats Don’t Add Up

By: Devany

Devany — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:54:49 +0000

I use Site Meter and Google Analytics and this girl is waaaaaay off. What’s fun is seeing where people are reading from and how they found my site. I don’t really care about the actual numbers, as I am not selling anything. Damon I get at least 2 readers a day from FBI, 2-3 from a Darker View and another 10 or so from Punaweb alone, but many of my regular readers are on RSS feeds and are “followers” that get the blog sent by e-mail. The BBA Challenge has increased readership even more in the last four weeks.

By: lkinoshita

lkinoshita — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:26:44 +0000

So, the thing with just going by Web server “visits” is that 20-30% are generated by non-humans (bots). The thing I like about StatBrain is that it trys to account for that.

So, take a look at how long your site visits are. Obviously any visit less than a few seconds long is a robot and should not be counted in total Web visits. When I look at the average Web site, 20% of the visits are by spiders and index engines.

And, just because a site gets 50 comments on one post, doesn’t mean it’s pulling that type of traffic every single day.

I totally discount any Web site that promotes “visits” — tell me how many HUMANS you are getting to your site.

How many visits are longer than 30 seconds? That’s a number I’ll believe.

Damon – I beg to say differently. Very rarely do I stay on a blog more then 10 seconds if that blogger has not updated their page since the last time I have visited. Does that make me a bot?

If I visit a blog and I’m not interested in the topic… should I stay there for 30 seconds to get counted as a visit?

By: margaretwille

margaretwille — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:32:02 +0000

I agree these stats are off.

On 6/13 my site had 2015 visits
On 6/12 my site had 1722 visits

maybe there was a particular day a while ago that these stats were gathered.

Damon – she may have not been looking at your blog in the statistics. I’ve had days with over 5,000 page views. I’m not sure how that thing does it’s statistics.

By: Damon Tucker

Damon Tucker — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:14:10 +0000

I have already compiled the "Big Island Top Blogs List". We all work hard to compile and publish our blogs... so they are all "Tops" in my list. FBI Blogs (The Big Island's Best Blogs)

By: Andrew Cooper

Andrew Cooper — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:56:22 +0000

Damon, why don’t you compile the “Big Island Top Blogs” list, you could probably generate a more accurate picture for us. Doubt I would be in the top ten on that one!