What Stats Service Do You Use?
At work I’m a stats whore. In fact my background is in maths. Although I left University with an Economics degree, I actually got my place on a maths course although I changed within weeks when I worked out that I wasn’t nerdy enough to study maths at degree level!
When I had more time to devote to my blogging stats I used to pour over them nearly everyday. But, now that I have to be more disciplined about my daily blogging time I now use Google Analytics, because it gives me a good quick snapshot that seems accurate.
However drilling down to find the detail with Google Analytics can be hard as it only lists the top 5 referrals etc. Ajay’s been raving about Reinvigorate (pictured), which is still in beta. I’ve applied for a beta account, but in the interim I’ve reinstalled Mint. I removed Mint when my old server was struggling, but hopefully now on the new server everything will be ok.
Update: I’ve temporarily made access to Mint public if you want to see what it can do out of the box. There are many other plugins, but I haven’t got around to adding them yet. The numbers for yesterday are only for a few hours and my server went down for a bit.
While I’m waiting for my reinvigorate details, I just wanted to find out how everyone else is getting their stats. What stats service or app do you use and why?
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Comment by Everton on 8 March 2007:
The new version of Mint doesn’t even seem to be creating any additional server load. I don’t think that mint was the problem before though - I think the other problems on my server were affecting mint.
Comment by IndoDX on 8 March 2007:
I use WP-Shortstat and for me this really good enough for free version stats
Comment by hongkiat on 8 March 2007:
I’ve been using a lot of other sites tracking appli, but prefer Google Analytics. It gives you very precise infomation but lack of visibility. Detail stats were hidden under navigations In the end, I believe its still somehow related to how google ’sees’ your website.
Reinvigorate and Mint sure looks cool. Have applied and see if I can get an invitation to Reinvigorate.
Comment by Ajay on 8 March 2007:
But, is it working well now? You definitely have a lot more traffic today than you did a month back, except when you got on digg.
Comment by Everton on 8 March 2007:
it’s not a plugin-it’s a standalone program. it’s no different to adding Analytics code to your server. I removed it before as it couldn’t keep up when my site got ultra-busy
Comment by Ajay on 8 March 2007:
Looks goodm but I dont want to buy yet another plugin that may eat up my server.
Comment by Everton on 8 March 2007:
I’ve temporarily made access to Mint public if you want to see what it can do out of the box. There are many other plugins, but I haven’t got around to adding them yet. The numbers for yesterday are only for a few hours and my server went down for a bit.
Comment by Ajay on 8 March 2007:
I got Analytics and Statcounter. But, like I told you over IM, Reinvigorate looks really good so far. The beta is free. If they turn paid, I may not continue. But, lets see.
Comment by Zath on 8 March 2007:
I also use a combination of Google Analytics and Awstats, which for my immediate needs I feel are quite good. Google Analytics certainly was a good upgrade for me from Awstats except for that Top 5 thing, which is rather annoying, I hope that gets changed in future.
Comment by knupNET on 8 March 2007:
Everton,
I just use the combination of Google Analytics and Awstats on my server. I know - pretty basic stuff - but that’s what I use. I am going to check out Reinvigorate now though I think.
Later!